Anita has actively made gaming worse, every female character in a western developed game now is frumpy at best or full on ugly at worst, all sex appeal has been systematically scrubbed from western developed games and it's all thanks to her.
Her criticisms of what was "sexist" or not was as shallow as a puddle, like complaining about Catwoman in Arkham City, a character who has been depicted as sexy in comics, television and movies for decades but put her in a game and nope, that's sexist, sexy is sexist.
And she was basically the very first figure in modern culture that you simply could not disagree with, no matter how carefully and respectfully you framed your arguments for why you didn't agree with her it was always, without fail, treated by some as no different than if you said you wanted to rape her and leave her body in a ditch, I saw that time and time and time and time and time again.
So I think that got a lot of people worked up because if they couldn't have an actual discussion about her, then they just wanted to troll as a "fuck you" to her protected status, while I do think people took it too far and should have just tried ignoring her, as trolling only made it worse, trolling was what she wanted, but I still she think she's a fucking cunt.
Agreed.
Zoe Quinn is a more reprehensible person overall, but Anita Sarkeesian did more damage as a moral guardian and I think rubbed a lot more gamers the wrong way while also knowing how to get the media types to buy into her grift a lot more easily than Zoe did.
She was basically the left-wing Jack Thompson, but unlike Jack Thompson, she knew how to get liberal media types to white knight her. The kind of people who work in the media and the tech industry are more likely to be wooed to your side if you invoke feminism than if you invoke Jesus.
Also, Anita is a lot more "clean cut" on the surface than Zoe Quinn or Brianna Wu, and that can go a long way in making a good first impression. She doesn't have the same kind of skeletons in her closet that Zoe and Brianna have and at the end of the day, she's just a fun-hating moral guardian who's willing to profit from her moralizing.
Zoe Quinn is a legit scumbag on all levels, Anita Sarkeesian is the secular left-wing version of Jack Chick or a fundie televangelist. She's despicable in her own right, but can more easily look respectable in the eyes of normies.
Had Anita not been attacked (and then white knighted) then I don't think Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu would have been nearly as effective in trying to push their own personal narratives.
Brianna Wu is pretty much irrelevant now outside of being a Kiwi Farms punchline and Zoe Quinn's just now starting to face some sort of comeuppance thanks to Alec Holowa's death. If they didn't throw their lot in with Anita, Quinn would've fallen a lot harder and a lot faster, while Wu would have remained in obscurity.
Honestly, if it weren't for Anita Sarkeesian, I don't think GamerGate would have been as much of a shitshow as it turned out to be in the end.
Fortunately, Anita Sarkeesian is rapidly losing her influence in the gaming industry and the media.
Her attempts to publically extort CD Projekt Red after wokescold troons bitched about Cyberpunk 2077 failed massively and neither the gaming industry nor the media came to her defense. Even as recently as last year, they would have stanned for her to at least some degree (see GenCon 2018 and The Quartering guy being physically assaulted) but she was largely ignored on all ends.
It doesn't help that Anita was hired as a consultant on several high-profile video game flops such as Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda, and apparently there's some rumors of reprehensible behavior on her part when she was there.
Chances are that Anita's getting quietly blacklisted from the gaming industry if she hasn't been already, but they're not ready to openly say anything bad about her just yet.
I do hate what she did to effectively sanitize video games and how she was above reproach for so long, but hopefully in the coming years, her influence will be gone. Keep in mind that most AAA titles take a long time to develop, so for all we know, we may be seeing the last of her influence over the gaming industry flicker out over the next couple of years.
If Sony's censorship policies fuck them over on the PS5's release or if someone like Rockstar or CD Projekt Red can do something strong arm them into getting rid of it, then I think that will be the turning point. Things like the puritanical costume designs in MK11 and the censorship DOA 6 went through only to be trashed and excluded by the woke crowd anyway is probably going to be remembered in the coming years by future developers.
As it is, Nintendo of all companies is relaxing their censorship stances, at least on third-party games. While Mai Shiranui was kept out of Super Smash Brothers for being too sexy, that was not a decision made by Nintendo, nor was it pushed by Woke Twitter or ResetEra. Apparently, the call was made by the CERO and the ESRB since Super Smash is rated E10+ and IIRC, I read that if Super Smash Brothers had a T rating, Mai probably would have made the cut with little to no changes made to her design or costume.
Needless to say, I'm cautiously optimistic that we may see things get better for gaming and pop culture in the 2020's. But the darkest hour is always before dawn.
