Ffs, Zoe has even said it's stupid to insist that GamerGate is responsible for fascist proliferation rather than a symptom of it
I know GG revolved around her, but I wouldn't say she could be considered an authority on the situation as a whole.
You know there are these things called "material conditions" that actually caused it.
Except there are material conditions surrounding the situation that were exploited by people like Steve Bannon.
There were neonazis parties growing in votes all across Europe before some incels got told to be angry at women for yet another reason
Oh no doubt, I'm not saying there was no right wing movement until gamer gate, but there was definitely just a perfect recipe for a modern day fascist acceleration pill within GG that some objectively awful people capitalized on.
yeah material conditions such as the dude not getting laid and growing bitter that his ex moved on.
If there hadn't been a g*mergate, people would point to some other anecdote to blame why there is so many young chuds, but the real reason that happened, included gamergate, is the economic-social-sexual anxiety caused by fuxking end-stage capitalism but with slighty less racism and misoginy than decades ago, so let's blame that instead of aknowledging the real problem.
There already was a growing chud movement. G*mergate was the advertisement campaign that shticked on young people ie our age, that's why we remember it.
i think you might be ascribing a bit too much to too few discrete causes, but i agree it was a strange series of events
Gamergate mostly didn’t attract or convert fascists,
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I remember actually being mad about that as a early 20-something.
Like I really spent my mental energy thinking about crazy evil SJWs ruining my video games or whatever. Fucking wild. To my credit I bailed out when I finally noticed the fash pipeline though.
I bailed out when I finally noticed the fash pipeline
Chapochat is part of the fascist pipeline :strangelove-wow:
Maybe that’s why it happens- being exposed to practices in the video game industry so regularly normalizes capitalist decay for them and, when coupled with the whole incel/no gf thing the next logical step is fascism.
It's because they can't quite get beyond viewing themselves as consumers or the market as the be all end all solution. It's why every time reddit bruhs scream "vote with your wallet" when the next 'games as a service' or microtransaction disaster happens I point out that according to the data we have over 50% of all revenue by in game purchases comes from 0.15% of the total user base.
Statistically speaking people who don't do in game purchases are a majority even though they are made to feel like a minority due to market forces. Step 1 to radicalizing gamers is to get them to understand that they have no real power or leverage within a purely market framework to change anything.
if not that, they would find a different little scab to pick to enrage young white gamers
Does this shitstain feels responsability for Charlotesville? Should he?
LOL at "incels got so angry at non-objetive journalism (ie every journalism) they voted fascists all over the world"
Minor fun fact I'd actually talked with Zoe once or twice on Steam before GG happened
not really, but all those worthless fash grifters were spawned by it
