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Gamergate was at least easy to ignore. I still don't really know what it was about. Always seemed like pointless internet drama to me. That may or may not be true but it hasn't been a problem to stay ignorant about the topic. You can't ignore what's happening now unless you don't use the internet at all and even that isn't going to be completely effective.
Except if you're a woman and operated in gaming spaces.
Which I'm not so yeah, it was pretty easy.
I read your comment as 'not yet' so i was concerned about the down votes till i reread it.
His privilege is shining brightly though.
It must be nice to have the capacity to care about everything, everywhere, all the time. That sounds like the height of privilege.
It was about incels spouting misogyny and all other imaginable forms of bigotry. It served as yet another fascism pipeline for a lot of kids.
I literally did not know about the facts of gamer gate until like two years ago. It was all Twitter bullshit, and that's why I had no idea what it was. Some of the people involved made a living out of it is seems.
Like that animated chunk of rotten Spam, Bannon.
Yeah I heard some stuff about it at the time but not much. About 5 years later I started reading an article about it but only got like 2 paragraphs in before I remembered why I never paid attention to it the first time around and quit reading.