Allah Bukkake has written a story on Kikebart on how Gamergate gave Trump the decisive edge to win the Presidency.
>It’s worth noting that many of Trump’s most ardent online supporters cite GamerGate as a key “red-pilling” moment for them, when they either abandoned the left, or abandoned political apathy. In a recent thread on Sup Forums entitled “Why can’t us liberals catch a break?” the first response, “you fucked with video games,” generated a wave of agreement from other posters:
It also helped saturate the white nationalist / anti-neocon movements with beta faggots who care more about video games then politics
Nicholas Edwards
What was GamerGate about? It all seemed like bullshit to me.
Liam Anderson
It was about the gaming press being a bunch of liberal faggots who impose their agenda within previews/reviews. It was also about how you could be a chick, make an extremely mediocre game, suck an editors cock, and get amazing coverage for said mediocre game. It was basically hobbyists waking up and realizing the gaming press was full of corrupt retards.
Brody Nelson
GamerGate would be 1000x more palatable if it wasn't attached with that autistic as fuck Vivian James shit.
Connor Russell
Politically neutral identity group gets demonized by progressive media. Some dislike it and investigate the people writing. They find sexual deviancy, nepotism in reviews and unified narratives coming out from apparently separate media. A bunch of these 'gamers' kick up a stink, and prompt mass censorship and shutdowns on reddit and Sup Forums as well as articles claiming that the 'gamer' identity is dead. For most of the neutrals that sounded like bullshit, so they started doubting the media and looking for links and reasons for the united front.
Juan Bennett
Ah-ha, thanks for the summary.
Owen Jenkins
>beta faggots who care more about video games then politics REEEEEE Politics has gotten more interesting lately but still not as interesting as video games. There's literally nothing wrong with being autistic.
Landon Brown
I think butthurt mods still remove gamergate threads on Sup Forums
Evan Rogers
Some tiny ass scandal no one cared about until various gaming rags tried to defend it by shitting on their readers. From that point it became a seemingly endless cycle of "journalists" writing angry shit and gamers thinking "why is this cunt so invested in this? Let's dig in and see what the connection is" and posting their findings, triggering a new wave of denouncements, etc.
Luis Diaz
>What was GamerGate about? It all seemed like bullshit to me.
Debating how it started is pointless.
What it showed was a glimpse into the modern day yellow journalism. Not so much in the backstory, if there were reviews for favors (sexual or otherwise) - no real conclusion was reached. But rather in the response to some mild poking they showed themselves to be:
1) Uninterested in videogames, what they're supposed to report on. 2) Complete lefty ideologues. 3) Coordinating their attack messages. 4) Inexplicably in contact with "serious" journalists and able to seed said attacks to supposedly legitimate outlets through their backdoor networks. 5) Incapable of reason or argument.
The longer it went on the worse it got. And it's all down to their response and the evolution from there. Ultimately it's not even about videogames, it's about journalism. Because what was uncovered was just a scale on the beast's underbelly. We later found this shit infecting all media. Even Sup Forums got in on the action through the Sony leaks that exposed how they pay for reviews, coordinate with journalists and how they're ideological to the point of willingly losing money to promote a cause.
It's all rotted, the entire MSM and beyond. The more you learn the more disgusted you'll get.
Jackson Martinez
Dear Diary, today Sven posted something decent.
Lucas Ross
This is a much better run down than I could have ever given. On the fucking money.
Joseph Baker
Pretty much the moment Sup Forums weaponized its autism.
Brayden Robinson
Makes me want to genuinely push this as a fact.
>Hey Zoe, did you know? You caused Donald Trump to get elected. >This is all thanks to you.
Jeremiah Rivera
Sup Forums is as ridiculous as this place can be >mild shitpost about "post below is gay" >3 day ban >softcore porn thread >up all time >thread with unrelated topic >up till 300 replies Worst of all you can't even bring politics related to the medium there without some aspie saying "DIS IS NOT A POLITICS BOARD" even after the reality just masturbates in front of their face (see E3) It's escapism but is also denial and manipulation, and everyone just plugs their fingers to their ears and yell "NUTHIN IS WRONG"
Charles Young
What's stopping you?
Camden Walker
Whatever happened to The Fine Young Capitalists anyway?
Xavier Gonzalez
>let's totally alienate the people who spend the most time and money on video games undermining our jew control to keep the goyim pacified with bread and circus entertainment What could go wrong
Caleb Bennett
do you ever get mad at seeing this black man and white women cuck shit in tv adverts?
imagine that but with video games and the sperg out was that huge it changed the world lol
Zachary Ward
it did
without GG cripplechan (our brains) would be just another deserted chan and GG was the proto alt right
Bentley Parker
So much left to do. We need to take back video games from (((them)).
Samuel Walker
Pretty much. I was left leaning centrist just before social politics started touching my games. Now I'm a flaming conservative. Never been more red pilled in my life, and I was raised in a red pilled household.
Mason Rivera
same,my mum nearly beat the shit out of me when i said communism was good when i was younger lol
Kevin Ward
btw she is polish so she would know of the evils of it,i have become redpilled since.
Mason Bennett
I have to agree. It's when I saw how powerful the agenda that's been pushed had become. It's like yeah, everyone knows that media had a vested interest in keeping advertisers happy, but GG exposed just how bad it had gotten if they were trying to control fucking video games.
Lincoln Campbell
Opened my eyes to a lot of things, ultimately the biggest of which I think was the far left's predilection for subversive tactics.
Easton Stewart
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Evan Cooper
This. To elaborate on your point, that shit was happening in journalism as a whole. The media got greedy, and Gamergate was simply the biggest retaliation. It was not about games, it was about journalism. My theory is that kids bombarded by leftist views graduated from college and needed jobs. They began writing for video game press and brought their ideals with them.
These days, the left is doing the same thing but with focus groups (which the big publishers use).
Jose Nguyen
You have to take into account how gamergate made a lot of people see the media very differently. If you knew a bit about things, and suddenly saw CNN lying through their teeth about a matter you knew about, you start thinking: well, what it they are lying about other things? Learning about GamejournosPro or whatever the fuck it was called is what is what led me to find out about the JouroList thing, which shattered any credibility the Post or Times had for me. I can't vote in the US election, but if I could, and I had been a democrat, it most certainly would have soured me too because I would think: if our policy is the best, why do we have to be this fucking underhanded to win?
Elijah Thompson
It's true. Before gamergate I didn't even know what right and left wing, republican or democrat were. By fucking with my games the left made an enemy for life. I'll never stop.
Jeremiah Sanders
I for one am glad alienated young men pushed to the fringes of society are pushing back.
Cameron Kelly
Will we once more be entitled to hold the gook head up high?
Mason Ross
Even better: holding the kike head up high.
Colton Taylor
Pseudo-intellectual, pieces-of-fucking-shit like this guy imposing his extreme leftist views on people.
Connor Rodriguez
Thanks GamerGator
Carter Thomas
This. Initially it was a minor scandal that would have gone away soon enough, except that the press lied so much and since gamers are all connected on the internet they were able to expose the truth. It's a short step from that to >if the press is lying so much about this one thing which I know about, what else are they lying about? Maybe I should look into it
It pissed me off at the time because I don't play gaymes and Sup Forums was flooded with posts about it, but I'm so glad it happened in hindsight
Mason Wright
Lets not forget how they all knew each other behind the scenes and have 10 different websites post "white male gamers are dead" articles all on the same day
and reviewers and award shows were giving high reviews and awards to games they were financially backing and stood to gain money on their sales
also lots of them giving good reviews to friends games
Alexander Powell
For once Sven is right about something political.
I was already redpilled after the Rotherham/Rochdale clusterfuck, but this definitely made me realise that the media is rotten to the core.
Jack Flores
>You now realize this while reason Gamergate even started was because some slut slept with reviwers to get a higher rating on her shit game
Xavier Harris
They thought they were untouchable, they were so used to having monopoly control over what people thought they they never bothered trying to be subtle or anything.
Luis Butler
And it would have stopped if Kotaku had just done a "Mea Culpa", dropped the issue and moved on.
Luis Morgan
I've never trusted the media in the first place, but the brutal efficiency upon which media as a whole came down on gamers for calling a spade a spade (or a slut a slut in this case) was very shocking to me. They were much more organized than I expected.
Gabriel Jones
For those who aren't into the deep libertarian side of it, which Sven covered well, the simple thing is that Moot got cucked.
Gamers start complaining on Sup Forums about press censorship. Moot wants Jewpussy, Jewpussy is a honeypot from the media. Moot orders Mods to censor / delete all gamer gate threads.
Moot's Jewpussy cucks him with a /fit/ body.
Moot throws his hands up in NEET despair and gives Sup Forums to NipMoot.
NipMoot is too busy watching anime to censor boards, people awakened by Gamergate start connecting the dots.
FBI user warns us. Wikileaks releases.
Weaponized autism attacks.
Colton Ward
Right? And the MSM are so confused when polls show that trust in the media is at an all-time low.
Evan Torres
Everyone be nice to Sweden today
Nicholas Collins
So basically liberal politicians got destroyed because GamerGaters decided to blame them for an event that none of them created or endorsed? That's actually pretty amazing if you think about it from a foreign policy or trade policy angle.
Imagine having to explain to a Mexican businessperson who was benefiting from NAFTA and whose life will be disrupted by Trump's policies, that this can all be traced back to people who hate Zoe Quinn deciding to vote for Trump in the GOP primaries and supporting Republicans for the House and Senate, so as to spite liberal politicians on an issue they didn't know was in play, by electing conservatives who neither know nor care about the issue.
Absolutely wow.
Blake Miller
They aren't confused, they are simply playing their cover story to the end. How many sociopath murderers on death row will deny their guilt as the switch is thrown, then grin their last grin at the families that wonder where their kids bodies are buried? That is the mind set of the MSM.
Jaxon Wright
>shitty girl game dev (Zoe Quinn) whores herself to 7 """journalists""" for good promotion and cucks her boyfriend >boyfriend discovers it and spits it all on the internet >Sup Forums and various other place say the gaming journalists have no fucking ethics (remember that DoritosGate already happened earlier) and that they should be ashamed of themselves and take action, call Quinn for the whore she is too. >massive coordinated backlash from gaming sites accusing gamers for being sexist, mysoginistic, harassers, etc... and saying that game audience are basically scums and MUST change (basically moving the goalpost from their own shittiness and calling for a literral purge) >shit even goes in mainstream who blatantly rewrite the fake narrative create by SJW >gamers who talk back and reframe the initial issue are basically banned from everywhere (reddit, NeoGaf, RPS, etc... and even Sup Forums, what we call Sup Forumsharbor) >people realize that gaming journalism and forum moderation have been infiltrated by powertripping social justice lunatics >leftists don't even bother anymore to hide their power level and go full anti-male and anti-white rhetorics >resistances organize, mostly around 4+Sup Forums and KiA and expands itself on youtube and twitter, progressively moves over the year from video games to entertainment as a whole campus politics and then to national politics
I would say a good half of Sup Forums today comes from GG either newfags or Sup Forumsirgins and Sup Forumstards
Charles Robinson
You know, the tragic reality of it is that Gamergate and the hard work of its autistic forces will probably never be acknowledged. It was literally the single greatest jumping off point for this new wave of cultural backlash and it is barely acknowledged outside of imageboards.
Collectively, those NEETs managed to uncover vast conspiracies and push back against a virulent narrative - exposing it and waging outright war against their enemies where it counted. They brought Gawker to its knees. They exposed the nepotism of the industry. They ruined the credibility of hundreds of individuals and even created a database to prove how shit the media was.
But they'll always just be misogynist trolls. They'll never be acknowledged as the heralds they were. They're the unsung heroes who have given us a chance to reclaim our souls from the Left.
Jacob Morris
>project chanology >09
lol no
Zachary Cooper
Eventually it will be, but only after we've won.
Jacob Miller
>Debating how it started is pointless.
People say it started with Zoe Quinn but I'd say it started way earlier with Anita and Dina. And the biggest lesson was don't fuck with "weaponized autism".
Jace Robinson
>posting with a fag flag
If you're an actual fag you apparently studied gamergate but didn't learn from it. Using that flag just makes people hate fags even more.
Carter Phillips
Think of the gamer press as a minor specialty in the Department of Propaganda of the NAZI Party. They could not be corrected without overthrowing the whole.
This is not as far fetched a comparison as it sounds, the MSM is highly concentrated in its ownership and management which is interlinked financially, racially and by marriage with the leadership of the Democrat party.
Just as Hitler, Lenin and Ergodan created shadow govts of party loyalists, so did the Democrats. They thought their long march through the institutions had finally paid off and they no longer had to rely on winning fair elections. Gamergate was an experiment in shutting down a rebellious social group. They thought they were going after a group of socially retarded Pajama Boy NEETs. If the attack failed there would be no wider repercussions. If it succeeded it would be a template for future attacks. They chose poorly.
Camden Sullivan
I post with it because the flag system is fucking gay.
Isaiah Thompson
GG was just the trigger event of something that was boiling in the US and the anglosphere since a bit longer. The real original event is basically when Occupy Wall Street was destroyed by leftist identity politics and their insane rhetorics, the paradigm shifted from class warfare to racial/gender warfare.
Also it's not really the fault of Zoe Quinn per se, it's more the reaction of the journalists who were accused of conflict of interests and involuntarly redpilled everyone on media collusion and fake narrative by showing it's easily doable. If the editors in chief had redacted a letter saying that they would adopt stricter standards of ethics after the Five Guys revelations then everyone would have carried on about their bussiness and they could have continued to slowly infect video games with the ideology, almost unnoticed outside of a fringe of people like Sup Forums (which was far smaller than it is now).
But insted they played the victim card and went full agression of young white men with a lot of free time, fatal mistake.
Jordan Nelson
Most Gamergaters are liberal. They went for Sanders, then either voted third party or didn't vote at all when he lost. They're what the lefties called "Berniebros" during the election.
Similar methods used by both parties don't mean both parties are the same.
Benjamin Davis
>and how they're ideological to the point of willingly losing money to promote a cause. I never saw this. Got any sauce?
Michael Murphy
i ended up buying a computer to buy video games. I ended up being a Nazi.
Isaac Ramirez
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Owen Brown
Go to the gamergate (KotakuInAction) subreddit. They're mostly leftists who know the right is right but refuse to accept the redpill. Gamergate is irrelevant
Cameron Wright
Of course GamerGate had something to do with Trump winning. It was the first time the cultural Marxists were utterly humiliated and forced to retreat and it has set the template for how to fight them ever since. It was also the first time an entertainment industry and it's consumers really fought back against the cultural Marxists as the other ones had pretty much just rolled over and capitulated to them.
It was the turn of the tide and it's why the SJWs are getting increasingly hysterical. They feel their grip on society is weakening. I doubt Trump knows much if anything about GamerGate but he's used many of the same tactics that were used during it.
Jayden Williams
Anyone who was redpilled by gamergate has since moved on to things that actually matter.
Kayden Sanchez
Sup Forums is a shithole, this happened yesterday
Adam Harris
Nobody who gamed ever took the gaming press seriously for fifteen seconds. Gamergate was a nothingburger.
Jayden Brown
Literally by definition, if you game you don't take poser faggots seriously. How are people still talking about this shit?
John Long
Hard not to end up on the right when the left has moved the goal posts so far that they are outside the fucking stadium.
>It's nothing goys please stop talking about it Shillary please
Kevin Gomez
>gamergator >rainbow flag
What a surprise.
Anthony Richardson
>Most Gamergaters are liberal.
I'm not so sure. They probably were in 2014 because being liberal is the default political position when you are young (especially when you grew up under Bush) and not really interested by politics but a lot of water passed under the bridge since. I used to play with an american from Boston who was your average pro Obongo in 2012, he participated to GG and he moved slowly surely to the right and I saw his avatar with a MAGA hat last year, I don't play video games anymore but I wouldn't be surprised if he went as far as becoming a WN.
Kevin Flores
correct - gaming journalism was always a joke and paid advertising
the real "meat and potatoes" however was the fact they're all hyper progressive leftist warriors using the industry to shovel propaganda that was shown to be seeping down real, "respectable" mainstream news organisations ie one giant cluster fuck of leftist faggotry
Samuel Murphy
It was just so stupid to go after gamers in the first place. These are people who enjoy a challenge, problem solving and competing. They are good at organizing, thinking rationally and are quick thinkers.
Did they really think that people who compete as a hobby would give up without a fight? Fighting is what they like.
Nolan Edwards
Wikipedia is becoming rationalwiki 2.0 in that it is almost exclusively controlled by the left. It is sad to see how emotionally involved the site has become.
Hudson Gonzalez
Great read
Ian Nelson
Everyone shits on it, but the fact is Milo reaching out to Sup Forums was a pivotal moment in history. The main advantages tumblr and SRS had over us was their connections to institutions and ability to run circles around us in the media. It was inevitable that someone on the right would eventually reach out to Sup Forums, but Breitbart as an organization did it first, and it created a powerful pipeline for grassroots activism to the Republican Party.
Isaac Roberts
Between Sup Forums and t_d we have managed to make politics fun. We enjoy this so now they are 100% FUCKED
And as for any purist that wants to rag on t_d just imagine how much more the left hates them than you - that sub is where Sup Forums took a giant shit on reddits lawn
Jaxson Lopez
Gamergate was an alt-right trolling campaign started by the Daily Stormer that targeted prominent women and minorities in the gaming industry.
Weebs angry about localized japanese games having futa censored got involved, so that's where the "gamers are right-wing" meme came from.
Parker Murphy
I too believe there is an underground GOP (not point in calling them nazis or whatever, just patriots in semi-exile)
Wyatt Baker
>pic
hahah and 5 years later the left is a bigger mess
Jaxson Hughes
not anita sarkeesian got btfo
Carson Morales
I already mailed her a month ago asking for a pen pal relationship, and said exactly that.
Justin Davis
I remember looking at an articles talk page, might even have been their completely wrong and slanderous version of gamergate and it had this one user sperging the fuck out all over the place to the point that they banned him for a time, then I looked at his profile and other contributions. This is what was immediately apparent: >everything had an extreme left political tint with this guy >communist >Jewish >Weeaboo All of wikipedia belongs into the trash with people like this are not only allowed to edit stuff, but are actually respected editors. I can really recommend looking at the talk pages and history, with certain controversial wiki-pages, really makes you think, also since some time now I tend to search information on "real" journalists who write clearly biased horseshit, every single time at least on of the following applies >extreme lefty/communist past >member of some "foundation" (read: Atlantic-press shill) >Jewish or born to Jewish parents ALWAYS
Thomas Williams
Fuck you. You're gay, newfag.
Levi Sanders
but Breitbart is not a reliable source
>oy vey lost 90% of advertisers since the election whoops coincidence
Daniel Reyes
you cant just add the word burger and expect to fit in shareblue
Justin Myers
>>>/leftypol/
Jayden Kelly
This. Also, I don't know if it had such am important role in the election of Trump, but it is clearly true that Gamergate was one of the triggers to the start of the red pill movement.
People sometimes bash video games, but they're a product of culture, and therefore it is only natural to assume that they can have impacts on the culture. Gamergate opened the eyes of many young men aroung the world, I'm myself an example.
Angel Foster
I just wanted to play video games now I'm a Nazi
Jack Cox
Germanskii sees me having Asshole as a nick-name and aidsfaggot steam url Asks if I'm from GamersGate or something Why Dutchlandfaggots so swjs?
Austin Morris
Hitler was right
Jordan Barnes
zoey quinns vagina is the equivilent of an autistic serb shooting franz ferninand
David Barnes
they cant help it with figureheads like merkel, germany is on par with sweden with cucking
Elijah Brown
I like this image
Luis Lee
the Gamergate bunch caused multiple sponsors for gaming sites (most notably Intel) to cancel their support. They still stuck to their narrative.
Leo Powell
gold
Matthew Jackson
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Camden Price
Intel eventually apologized for supporting misogynistic gamer nerds
Oliver Gonzalez
same with immigration
the left will not bend,backing down means admitting failure and doing so to them is worse than defeat
they have a vison and will not u turn even if they can see the cliff edge
i see gamergate,brexit and trump movement as the people wrestling for control of the steering wheel from the insane left to u turn before they take us all over the cliff