Honestly it's kinda weird how gamergate was kinda like the foundational act for the current form of far-right social media politics, and responsible for the fact that so much of internet fascism looks like an extension of imageboard subculture, and people just kinda decided to collectively forget about this completely because I guess at some point the cool internet user consensus became that Zoe Quinn is annoying, I guess? Without gamergate the 4chan clone 8chan would've never risen to prominence (it did because 4chan's owner banned gamergate threads entirely), and 8chan accumulating a critical mass of neo-nazi gamers created the conditions for Q Anon to be invented there. So like while "gamer culture war" sounds like an extremely lame subject, it actually had some influence in shaping the current far-right on the internet.
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