A bunch of 'normal' young guys suddenly learned how scummy journaloids can be when they defend someone and just how blatantly they lie. This in turn created a massive backlash from guys online which wasn't in the progressive script. Some of those guys became rightoids or at the very least felt burnt out and had a harder time identifying with mainstream messaging (which is literally fascism).

So in my view libs got caught and then overcorrected and then became extremely anxious about moids not buying their shit anymore and so now they fantasize about an alternate history where the gaymers were all literal nazis and that if they had just #believedwomen and journos then Ruth Bader Ginsbirg would be president now and drumpf and putler would be in prison and everyone would heckin' wholesome chungus keanu.

Or something like that idfk everyone involved is r-slurred.

I mean, it was also probably eye-opening for a lot of g*mers in regards to foid, journo and lefty nonsense.

Getting tarred and feathered as an evil bigot on Twitter was still fairly novel when it happened.

Go ahead and see what you drag in, but that's the most accurate summary I came up with after reading his >9000-word crypost, some wiki nonsense, and some articles from there.

All that seethe is from the flamewar, which surprisingly at that time people didn't know they were in because they were mostly newstrags who got into their first spat and took it extremely seriously (and forever and ever, cannot ).

Redditors will probably get annoyed at that paragraph because it's an accurate portrayal of them.

I used to know some game journos and yes it really is that simple. They are the most fricking bizarre mentally ill people I've ever known in my life. The only thing I can compare it to is Mean Girls. Socially awkward people who are desperately trying to fit in so they'll do anything for their cult.

Women have always been mad as heck about being judged for fricking their way to the top, this cultural event was a turning point where you're not allowed to treat them differently for it now, e.g. Kamala

The left belief is that GG was a bunch of men (the straight, cis, white is just assumed) decided to attack a woman because her bitter ex-boyfriend wrote a manifesto full of lies. They slutshamed her, and because she was a gamedev and they were evil right-wing g*mers, they started sending r*pe and death threats to any woman or minority who stood up to them being buttholes and thinking gaming was just for them.

It got linked to things like Charlottesville and Trump because these are all things that evil white men are responsible for due to their bigotry towards anyone different from them. Another retroactive association was that it was heavily transphobic, because hating people different from them of course means transphobia, now far more than 2014.

To these people, it was the idpol type they hate the most, fratbro types who they imagine wearing backwards baseball caps and high-fiving over tits, pushing back against progressive empathy. And they won with Trump, The Great Evil.

I like how people say it directly did that. Then people mock them cause how absurd.

However the gaslamping piece of shit journos brought it upon themselves by blowing their load too early.

It was one of the first instances in the modern(social internet 3.0) internet where journos actively tried to suppress a narrative and tell people that they didn't see/read/witness what they think they did. Which did have a small effect into the Teflon Don internet smear campaign. Back around 2015/16 journos would claim Trump was going to start biological warfare cause he sneezed around another politician. The man could've personally cured cancer and they'd talk about him putting oncologists out of work. This was because journos felt an iota of power after gaslamping people.

I'll admit I don't know specific details about g*mergate but I know the general, someone slept with a reviewer, people got mad, “powers that be” tried to gaslamp into calling people complaining to be misogynistic incels (that term has lost all value) to change the narrative. And of course the typical lefty leaning socials ate it up because the journos were on “their side”.