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[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is weird to learn that gamergate was right wing infighting

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Ian-Miles Cheong and Cadence Owens were both anti-gamergate.

Also, I suspect that there is more than one Hexbearian that was a gamergater back in the day.

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

I was actually aware that all games journalism is garbage at the age of like 10 because a child can be capable of internalizing that people taking money are going to be extremely charitable reviewing the people giving them money

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

Turns out when you are fighting over meaningless culture war vidya game bullshit it’s very easy to swap sides since there are no material stakes

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mean I was a middle schooler when Gamergate started and I never went harassing people because of it, but I definitely was caught up in Gamergate when it was first going down. It's one of the reasons I'll always love Hbomberguy, because watching his videos was how I ended the youtube algorithm death slide that was Gamergate.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Algorithm death slide is a good phrase, mine ended on the third hour-long unstructured Sargon rant with me going "god this guy is whiny, I'm sick of his voice"

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

My head hurts now

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, I suspect that there is more than one Hexbearian that was a gamergater back in the day.

I was really big into Gamergate for about 45 minutes. Then I looked it up, and it turned out it was just some dude being super pissed off that his ex did The Sex after they broke up.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah, all the "ethics in game journalism" stuff was just code for "we want to make video gaming more sexist."

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anita Sarkeesian for president.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

As a bit, Anita Sarkeesian should run on free speech and call herself “Cancel culture’s first victim.”

…because she is. And she has done more for free speech than any CHUD ever will.