If you actually look into it, the original accusation was completely made up.
Even if it had been true it would have been a storm in a teacup. An incredibly tiny indie developer had their lover write a positive article about their incredibly niche indy game. Who gives a shit?
Gamergate was a psyop to politicize young white males by making them believe their hobby was under attack by feminists. It was largely created by Steve Bannon through Breitbart News and its editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
The ongoing “culture war” is not an accident or an emergent fenomenon. Powerful figures have worked long and hard to bring about fascism.
Oh I dont doubt it. Fwiw, (and I’m going go off topic from the architrects behind it, and speak as someone who creates art and reveres it) I remember when it happened that I thought it was unneccessary and overblown drama that in fact annoyed actual gamers. Like, our pass time/hobby/inspiration/artform was used as a vehicle for some politicizing down our collective throats. A square peg for a round hole. (I.e. Idgaf.) Its what turned me off from the whole social justice movements targeting entertainment since. Like I appreciate the intent, but ultimately it was just a bunch of virtue signaling lazy bones riding on coat tails of what would have once been protected as Art. One can do right by others in many ways, but to throw tantrums at Art for being ‘woke’ or not woke enough, I just hate it. I’m a poc and have endured, yet to me, eviscersting creativity to virtue signal is a cowardly low effort tactic. Make something (its hard!) or shut the fuck up and appreciate those that create magic, whether its games or film, whatever it may be.
If you actually look into it, the original accusation was completely made up.
Even if it had been true it would have been a storm in a teacup. An incredibly tiny indie developer had their lover write a positive article about their incredibly niche indy game. Who gives a shit?
Gamergate was a psyop to politicize young white males by making them believe their hobby was under attack by feminists. It was largely created by Steve Bannon through Breitbart News and its editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
The ongoing “culture war” is not an accident or an emergent fenomenon. Powerful figures have worked long and hard to bring about fascism.
Oh I dont doubt it. Fwiw, (and I’m going go off topic from the architrects behind it, and speak as someone who creates art and reveres it) I remember when it happened that I thought it was unneccessary and overblown drama that in fact annoyed actual gamers. Like, our pass time/hobby/inspiration/artform was used as a vehicle for some politicizing down our collective throats. A square peg for a round hole. (I.e. Idgaf.) Its what turned me off from the whole social justice movements targeting entertainment since. Like I appreciate the intent, but ultimately it was just a bunch of virtue signaling lazy bones riding on coat tails of what would have once been protected as Art. One can do right by others in many ways, but to throw tantrums at Art for being ‘woke’ or not woke enough, I just hate it. I’m a poc and have endured, yet to me, eviscersting creativity to virtue signal is a cowardly low effort tactic. Make something (its hard!) or shut the fuck up and appreciate those that create magic, whether its games or film, whatever it may be.