G*mers won - I was wrong about G*mergate - Graham Lineham - Youtube

G*mer gayte was the collective realization that games "j*urnalists" were actually just clout chasers trying to make a buck off of games developers rather than actual reporters.

It seems obvious now, but back in the day things were better and simpler.

Gaymers were complaining about the absolute state of game journotism so journoids tried to set feminists on them. OP is one of those male feminists.

Other comments are correct about the initial part with games journ*lists which was the first part, but it then protacted for awhile into conflict between feminists/media and members of the new right along with sceptics. A lot of more standard media sources will focus on the second part as it is more of the wash for the anti journ*list faction. People joke it's what got Trump elected in 2016, but more seriously it and Occupy Wall Street are responsible for where we are at it culturally to this day

Every single one of these replies is wrong. G*mergate, better known as G*mergate.com or just gg c*m was a early 2000s website that lived long past it prime and the dwindling userbase was looking to revitalize the forums. In comes trans icon Arneeda Sarkeeseesan, long time member more often known on the forums as Zoe Quim ( a reference to the game fear fx). Under the promise to boost the sites popularity on social media, She scored a moderator role and used her influence to drive all the g*mers off the forums and repurpose the space for organizing online trans activism advocacy focused on online gaming. G*mers organized off-site irl and formed g*mergate as you know it today. Their overall goal was to get Donald Trump elected to office so they could pack his cabinet with people sympathetic to their cause. This was wildly successful and the rest is history.