and i totally disagree! gamergate was a precursor to elements of the modern right wing coalition because right wing activists were able to build a platform by supporting it. who of the modern right came up through the snyder cut movement? point to a single person? - ThreadSky

fevered.earth • 14 days ago

and i totally disagree! gamergate was a precursor to elements of the modern right wing coalition because right wing activists were able to build a platform by supporting it. who of the modern right came up through the snyder cut movement? point to a single person?

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realryanwhorton.bsky.social•14 days ago

Doesn’t change that all of you were acting like monumental assholes in a very similar way to gamergate. That’s the point.

fevered.earth•14 days ago

it's not at all similar

realryanwhorton.bsky.social•14 days ago

I was there. I observed both. It was.

fevered.earth•14 days ago

more broadly - fascism is rooted in material economic conditions. biden was sank by his need to defend american imperialism. elon musk has been able to stage a coup because he has billions of dollars and he and his peers own the press. all the culture war nonsense was totally irrelevant in the end!

fevered.earth•14 days ago

not to the people involved, of course, but to national politics

inchide.bsky.social•14 days ago

Gamergate WAS a Rigth Wing coalition FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, The point and hope of the movement from the start was that video-game news would fire all the game journalists talking about "white privilege" in their videogame info-tainment and that it would force all the other to shut up about it.

inchide.bsky.social•14 days ago

I know it because I was there at its inception and was stupid enough to actually believe it was about "ethic in video game journalism", only to see the mask quickly fall off and see what the real anger was about.

fevered.earth•14 days ago

yes - didn't mean at all to imply that gamergate was in some way corrupted by the right wing element, it was always total trash. only that its continued relevance is because it seeded all these grotesque media figures who are still around.

ryanpaulnaughton.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yeah, but why did so many people go along with it? Human beings are not empty vessels.

mikef141.bsky.social•14 days ago

People went along with it because they wanted to see the movie Snyder made. It’s really not that complicated.

ryanpaulnaughton.bsky.social•14 days ago

I was talking about gamergate.

mikef141.bsky.social•14 days ago

Oh, my mistake. I do apologise.

Gamergate is pretty simple: a whole lot of bigotry.

ryanpaulnaughton.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yes, and I saw a lot of that bigotry bleed over into the Snyder Cut movement. The venn diagram of gamergators and Snydrr Cut enthusiasts might not be a circle but the overlap is significant.

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fevered.earth•14 days ago

video game companies absented themselves from any responsibility for ensuring that the communities they ran didn't turn into misanthropic racist cesspits, a situation that has barely improved in the intervening decade.

ryanpaulnaughton.bsky.social•14 days ago

But people who joined could have simply choose to not join up.

fevered.earth•14 days ago

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