steve bannon weaponized gamergate to normalize his far right ideology. that far right movement elected 45/47. 47’s tariffs ar, making the nintendo switch prohibitively expensive for the same crowd that was his original driving force
Gamergate was a 2014 campaign to “get politics [women and minorities] out of video games” and is thought to have helped create the ongoing “culture war” in the US as far right leaders learned to use the same rhetoric.
Ngl, I’m kinda feeling vindicated reading this post. I’d been saying for years to my friend (who doubted me on this) that gamergate started this whole division politics. Making the zeitgeist pendulum swing from one polarity to the other. It led to me-too/cancel culture, which then swung the pendulum towards trump 1.0 fake news and anti vax, then swung to BLM and Lgbqt movements then it finally swung to trump 2.0’s vengeance we’re seeing today.
All this bullshit started from game journalists. Jfc, I miss the uncomplicated days before 2014, when we could all just enjoy TF2 and collect hats without a care in the world of what anyone thought of anything. Hard to imagine our favorite innocent hobby got distorted to lay the groundwork for the divided mess we’re in. And its only going to get cataclysmically worse.
It wasn’t started by game journalists, it was started by the same deplorables who helped elect 45/47. Gamergate was just a successful trial run of that battlefront tactic. It’s all astoturf, smoke, and mirrors but it’s still the same class war.
If you actually look into it, the original accusation was completely made up.
Even if it had been true it would have been a storm in a teacup. An incredibly tiny indie developer had their lover write a positive article about their incredibly niche indy game. Who gives a shit?
Gamergate was a psyop to politicize young white males by making them believe their hobby was under attack by feminists. It was largely created by Steve Bannon through Breitbart News and its editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
The ongoing “culture war” is not an accident or an emergent fenomenon. Powerful figures have worked long and hard to bring about fascism.
Oh I dont doubt it. Fwiw, (and I’m going go off topic from the architrects behind it, and speak as someone who creates art and reveres it) I remember when it happened that I thought it was unneccessary and overblown drama that in fact annoyed actual gamers. Like, our pass time/hobby/inspiration/artform was used as a vehicle for some politicizing down our collective throats. A square peg for a round hole. (I.e. Idgaf.) Its what turned me off from the whole social justice movements targeting entertainment since. Like I appreciate the intent, but ultimately it was just a bunch of virtue signaling lazy bones riding on coat tails of what would have once been protected as Art. One can do right by others in many ways, but to throw tantrums at Art for being ‘woke’ or not woke enough, I just hate it. I’m a poc and have endured, yet to me, eviscersting creativity to virtue signal is a cowardly low effort tactic. Make something (its hard!) or shut the fuck up and appreciate those that create magic, whether its games or film, whatever it may be.
Wait Im out of the loop, what are the in-between correlations?
steve bannon weaponized gamergate to normalize his far right ideology. that far right movement elected 45/47. 47’s tariffs ar, making the nintendo switch prohibitively expensive for the same crowd that was his original driving force
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Gamergate, Bannon’s strategy for drawing out young voters, Trump, tariffs.
Ohh, I get it now.
Wait, this is a good meme.
Gamergate was a 2014 campaign to “get politics [women and minorities] out of video games” and is thought to have helped create the ongoing “culture war” in the US as far right leaders learned to use the same rhetoric.
Ngl, I’m kinda feeling vindicated reading this post. I’d been saying for years to my friend (who doubted me on this) that gamergate started this whole division politics. Making the zeitgeist pendulum swing from one polarity to the other. It led to me-too/cancel culture, which then swung the pendulum towards trump 1.0 fake news and anti vax, then swung to BLM and Lgbqt movements then it finally swung to trump 2.0’s vengeance we’re seeing today.
All this bullshit started from game journalists. Jfc, I miss the uncomplicated days before 2014, when we could all just enjoy TF2 and collect hats without a care in the world of what anyone thought of anything. Hard to imagine our favorite innocent hobby got distorted to lay the groundwork for the divided mess we’re in. And its only going to get cataclysmically worse.
I want to go back…
It wasn’t started by game journalists, it was started by the same deplorables who helped elect 45/47. Gamergate was just a successful trial run of that battlefront tactic. It’s all astoturf, smoke, and mirrors but it’s still the same class war.
If you actually look into it, the original accusation was completely made up.
Even if it had been true it would have been a storm in a teacup. An incredibly tiny indie developer had their lover write a positive article about their incredibly niche indy game. Who gives a shit?
Gamergate was a psyop to politicize young white males by making them believe their hobby was under attack by feminists. It was largely created by Steve Bannon through Breitbart News and its editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
The ongoing “culture war” is not an accident or an emergent fenomenon. Powerful figures have worked long and hard to bring about fascism.
Oh I dont doubt it. Fwiw, (and I’m going go off topic from the architrects behind it, and speak as someone who creates art and reveres it) I remember when it happened that I thought it was unneccessary and overblown drama that in fact annoyed actual gamers. Like, our pass time/hobby/inspiration/artform was used as a vehicle for some politicizing down our collective throats. A square peg for a round hole. (I.e. Idgaf.) Its what turned me off from the whole social justice movements targeting entertainment since. Like I appreciate the intent, but ultimately it was just a bunch of virtue signaling lazy bones riding on coat tails of what would have once been protected as Art. One can do right by others in many ways, but to throw tantrums at Art for being ‘woke’ or not woke enough, I just hate it. I’m a poc and have endured, yet to me, eviscersting creativity to virtue signal is a cowardly low effort tactic. Make something (its hard!) or shut the fuck up and appreciate those that create magic, whether its games or film, whatever it may be.