Gamergate was a communist movement. idpol on both sides and corrupt gaming journalism are ruining gaming

I disagree. It was started by MundaneMatt and InternetAristocrat/MrMetokur, both of whom are explicitly reactionary. The alt-right saw an SJW in the gaming industry who had done some fucked up shit and used it to attack SJWs from a rightist perspective. While combatting idpol is good when done in the name of class unity, the purpose of Gametgate from the very beginning was to attack left idpol to make way for right idpol.

… what? It had already began on Holla Forums and spread to other boards and forums long before MundaneMatt or InternetAristocrat even touched it.

How are MundaneMatt and InternetAristocrat reactionary? For disagreeing with feminists? What?

We've known games journalism has been corrupt for years. The rise in popularity of personalities like Totalbiscuit and Jim Sterling can demonstrate this when we all sort of realised video games were becoming a soulless, mechanised industry and might have always been that way.

But the straw that broke the camels back for these "non-reactionaries" was a guy accusing his girlfriend of being a slut (which didn't actually happen). This led to conspiracy theories and a subsequent reaction to a supposed "cultural war" against an "overwhelming tide of SJW content". It was always like this. Predatory journalists like Milo were there from the beginning stoking the fires because had an audience and fulfilled a need for something different.

Did Gamergate discuss the inherent problems with games journalism?
Did they understand stuff like "she knew a guy who knows a guy who wrote an article about some shit" is inherent in all journalism?
Did they realise a lot of these problems have to do capitalism and its impossible to separate the publisher form the journalist, the pork from the newspaper?

Nope, instead they dug up (or falsified) Patricia Hernadez articles and came up with pol tier conspiracies about Gawker trying to destroy ==MUH GAMER IDENTITY==. its three years alter and no continues to give a fuck about Brianna Wu even though she was literally satan for a good while there.

The only non-retarded thing they achieved was preventing paid mods. The most retarded thing achieved was validate the man-child nature of video games and sky rocket the popularity of key members of the alt right

But please, just accuse everyone of pointing out the truth of coming from "reddit"

If that's the case, then how come Holla Forums made their own torture chamber gamergate board because "the other one wasn't attacking SJWs enough" and conspiracy theories were laughed off of Reddit boards and the many Holla Forums GG boards alike. Unless you want to insinuate that shit like GameJournoPro and exposure of people with financial investment within games are conspiracy theories, I am not sure I understand what you're on about.

Gamergate ruined everything.

You're being intellectually dishonest. It was the appearance of collusion, not whether she was a slut or not. If it was merely the fact she was a slut, the attacks would have been focused on her more or less completely. Instead, they were against not only her but gaming journalists, gaming sites, and other "journalism" sites.

Most of Holla Forums hates idpol shit as well. Just because they disliked "SJW content" doesn't imply they're reactionaries unless you're going to condemn nearly everyone on this board as reactionary as well.

brb pre-ordering games on steam

never cared, never will

I still can't understand why people got so triggered about game journalism
if you want to know about particular game, ask Holla Forums for fucks sake

seriously, it is kinda sad that chans ceased to be thing-in-itself

It started out that way. Then built on the anti-SJW sentiment that was swirling around on the internet caused the massive influx of disgruntled gamers. All the people who had a problem with "fake gamer girls" or models at conventions now had a movement to get behind. A lot of the sites I saw (which I can't find now) that were meant to fill the need for alternative media dealt primarily with anti-SJW content and pretty much nothing else. I mean, when Brianna Wu turns into a literal boogie man you can't say their issue doesn't primarily rest with SJW's and not journalism itself.

Because its pol? Remember, "Hitler wasn't violent enough" when one's ideology doesn't match reality its clearly the shills fault or the fault of failures in the movement.

Because its dumb, of course it got laughed. But doesn't that sort of answer your own question as to why pol developed a GG safe space?

You know as well I do that it got way nuttier than that.

Which again people never cared about a feminist did(n't) do it. It very quickly became more about idpol than anything else.

You know i'm not doing that, unless you have a different definition of reactionary than I do. Gamergate allowed people like Sargon, MundaneMatt, Aristocrat, Milo and older anti-sjws like Thunder00t to get their message to a new audience.

Although I wouldn't necessarily call these people reactionaries, the aftermath was all these Gamergaters developed an identity that was built as an opposition to what they see as a growing conspiracy in gaming, journalism, education etc.

Essentially, Gamergate became the gamer version of "meninists" movements and many of them cross pollinated with the alt right. So it depends on how you interpret these people.