I've taken a gander at GamerGate General, and I'm surprised at how on-topic they've been since this started.
Acidman, the site's owner and GG veteran, said he is reaching out to people he knows. He seems full of energy and planning something big.
This could get spicy, lot of resentment over there. It will be interesting to see old faces surface up in general and give us their two cents.
Sounds interesting. Link?
What ‘harassment’ has even occured?
As long as your side has the media and the power to cherry pick, you can always find a tard or two posting death threats, or post your own if need be. Alyssa is trying.
As much as they may want it, we're not yet a post-capitalist society, and money still talks. SBI's protection racket is the same as all "sensitivity readers" and relies on the narrative that this is what the customer wants. Steam has about 60 million daily active users, and that group grew to 240k members after a few days, not to mention anyone who can't join for fear of being harassed by "friends"/etc.
That's only 0.41% -- even less if you compare to Steam's monthly daily users, total users, etc, but it is one of the largest curator groups on steam. I would also speculate that, like most things, the power law applies to Steam so something like (made up numbers to illustrate) 10% of the users buy 90% of the games, which helps a bit.
That's probably too low to work as a "quiet" boycott where they just don't buy the games. It still might have an impact if there was a fear it would go viral with the big streamers, but we're not seeing that and we probably won't -- that's the point of labelling it as a harassment campaign, to target and destroy anyone with influence who touches it. At best, this is another log coming loose in the dam.
Even then, at least some ability to organize is necessary -- SBI is just one company, and it's not enough to make that one brand toxic, Gamers (tm) would need to make their entire ecological niche poison. Curated lists can do that, but people need to hear about them and need to believe they represent their views. Absent that, the technique can just be subverted.
It sucks, but their control of media and social media gives them a lot of power to make a small group seem big or vice-versa. There's a limit to that though, and we do seem to be seeing a pendulum swing against this culture war bullshit/DEI/etc. Hoping for the best, but I'm not optimistic. About all we can do is turn on, tune in, drop out.
