There's a reason they bring up GamerGate whenever anyone pushes back on their little bullshit. GGers even have a term for it -- "Gamedropping." People tired of a bunch of dangerhairs from Tor Publishing conspiring to fix the Hugo awards? GAMERGATE! People don't want to see a shitty movie that is being played up for woke points? GAMERGATE. People not wanting to put up with genderqueer shapeshifting elf sluts as official canon in D&D 6th edition? GAMERGATE.
It's because GG was the first community that really just said "Yeah, no,
fuck you." And they literally didn't know how to handle that. These little NERDS? Who are -- UGH -- Straight White Men? Are telling THEM --
them, the beautiful woke ones -- no?! That they're WRONG? Demanding EVIDENCE? They literally couldn't even.
Oliver Campbell had a speech about this at one of the meetups:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze6H8C9vYJg
And Hugo Nominated Artist Kukuruyo (holy SHIT that makes them salty, thanks again Puppies) did a great comic about it, here:
https://www.kukuruyo.com/comic/a-gamergate-speech-oliver-campbell/
They keep chanting their emergency narrative they came up with after GG ruined their shit in Vidya -- basically that GG is evil racist sexist transphobic WORD SALAD monsters who should never be discussed, never listened to, ostracized forever, yadda yadda yadda. This is because as we saw with ComicsGate, Weeb Wars, and the pre-emptive "NO FUCK YOU" from the Warhammer 40k guys ("Grimdark is problematic, we need socialist feminist atheist Space Marines."), GG has pretty much figured out their little playbook, knows good ways to trip them up and screw with their narratives, and letting GG talk to other hobbies and warn them, well, that would be...
problematic.
Because in the end... they really can't change gears. They have one playbook, and only one. And Gamers know EXACTLY how to defeat NPCs.
Edit: Speaking of Warhammer, just in case you thought I was kidding:
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"The lore for Skaven Marginalizes female characters."
WE NEED DIVERSITY IN OUR MUTANT DISEASED RAT-NINJAS, MY FURRY GIRLFRIEND WITH A FEMALE-RAT-NINJA OC DEMANDS IT.