Granted it was during a bleak period of my life when I was so reactionary. But my god, to think these goobers are still around today, still doing racism and sexism, just moving from target to target to take out the impotent rage on.

Just reminded of it today with the “discourse” of Yasuke being in Ass Creed and G*mers changing any woman not white and waifish with AI.

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    I still don’t know what gamergate was and I have no interest in learning. I feel like it would just be a complete waste of time. I think it had something to do with a bunch of nerds being angry a woman was taking games seriously as art and critiquing them as such?

    • culpritus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      a bunch of nerds being angry a woman was taking games seriously as art and critiquing them as such

      that’s a pretty accurate summary

      • daniyeg@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        every time you mention Dan Olson some reactionary chud comes out of the woodwork to say “umm you mean the guy that posted CP on 8kun?” oh shut the fuck up you lying sack of shit.

        • nohaybanda [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          For real? I don’t think I’ve noticed that so far, though it wouldn’t surprise me. Dan’s been styling on chuds for a long time. I suspect his reading of fight club as a feminist critique of toxic masculinity left a core trauma for some of these bozos

          • daniyeg@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            during gamergate he wrote a piece on how there were literal CP boards on 8kun and the mods did nothing, and that pissed off chuds. so first they said his article itself constitutes spreading CP, his downloading of the images makes him a pedo, and then just straight up accused him of being the person that uploaded the CP in the first place to get 8kun shut down.

            they’re still really butt hurt about it. and let me just say i wish dan succeeded because 8kun was the breeding ground for Qanon.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Even dumber than that, it was kicked off by a jilted boyfriend who aired out their dirty laundry on Tumblr and the whole discourse centered around how women keep getting a pass for everything.

      But yeah, life is too short and precious to spend any of it caring about gamergate.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      I think it had something to do with a bunch of nerds being angry a woman was taking games seriously as art and critiquing them as such?

      That’s as good an explanation as you’re going to find about it. Far right operatives latched onto them and juiced it up which is why it wouldn’t go away