I noticed something else that sets the weeb wars apart from previous culture war flashpoints today.
In previous shitstorms, there is usually an unseen tipping point, beyond which even the most zealous of defenders will ratchet back their ardent defense of a given bit of nonsense a few notches. Eventually it all builds to the point where they quit the battlefield and pretend they won anyway, which is usually the point where it's tacitly realized that they lost. They may jockey for position but the war for all intents and purposes is over at that point, and the only ones still clinging to it are the TRUE AND HONEST believers who refuse to acknowledge that there was ever any wrongdoing.
For GG, that moment was the UN CVAWG Report. For ComicsGate, it was Marvel shitcanning the bulk of the shitheads resonsible for their latest literary bolus. But both of these had their moment where some idiot or another took the moment to assume that the opposition was in any way relevant. In GG you could at least claim that maybe some women
had been harassed, because even though you had shitheads like Wu claiming
anything was harassment, you had multiple third-party troll groups muddying the waters, the GGRevolt crowd constantly harassing people, and so on, so there was at least the
illusion of legitimacy somewhere within that claim. In CG there was significantly less of this, since comics have been inclusive since
forever ago, but you still had people making the claim (though it admittedly died off significantly
after Ardian Syaf inserted openly anti-semetic Koran verses in the comics he was drawing).
There's none of this in the weeb wars.
None. No one believes the KickVic crowd. Even if you ignore things like Samantha Inoue-Harte (which you should not), Pensacon (ditto), and Meepy Gal (still hilarious), there's been so many cases of faked evidence,
intention to fake evidence, and people whose footage was used without permission by the KickVic crowd (who subsequently told them to fuck off and die) that they've not only obliterated their own credibility, but lambasted anyone who pointed out they don't have any credibility, and they can't even get their own side to run interference for them.