DarkSoulsPhil
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- Nov 28, 2017
Christ, I totally forgot about gamergate. It's already somewhat "nostalgic" to me because it seems so long ago. But as you've said, gamergate might really be one of the first instances where an online "movement/ideology" spilled over into real life. And it probably didn't stop there. Around 2016 I was probably one of the first person who heard about Jordan Peterson in my country after this incident at his university. Never would I've thought that he'll write a book that becomes a bestseller around the world and that my ex-friends (They literally excommunicated me because I said modern feminism is elitist) will actually talk about him in real life some years later. For some time I really tried to ignore this insanity and told myself that it won't get as bad in my country as in the USA. But now this just seems naive and I should have known better.
One could even argue that Ollie's troon out is at the end a result of gamergate. Some idea of a timeline:
Gamergame starts => People like Sargon of Akkad and Jim become quite known in this community => Gamergate becomes the broader anti-SJW online community => There is a crosspolination of different ideologies over time. Some people who started as fat neckbeards who started ranting about video games suddenly thought that they had to save the white race => Sagon of Akkad and other prominent figures of gamergate or the anti-SJW weren't cutting it anymore. People have in general become more radicalized and don't identify with the "vision" of soft liberalism like Sargon anymore => Begin of internet bloodsports with Jean-François Gariépy and Andy Warski as the retarded royal family ruling about their newly conquered land on the internet => Internet bloodsports imploded => Many people who started in gamergate, became anti-SJWs and at the end internet whignats might have become shocked how far they were radicalized in an online movement. This is the time when many left-wing/SJW channels had the opportunity to actually grow and many channels like Shaun and Jen, Hbomberguy and our favourite tranny of today, Hontrapoints, were able to grow their channels. This was the begin of the decline of anti-SJW YouTube that was so big after Trump's victory. I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't all organic and some organizations actually helped to grow those channels. Anyway, over the years we saw the creation of many new BreadTube channels (like Vaush and Xanderhal) and many anti-SJWs who turned into SJWs themselves or became more sympathetic to them ("Hanna" and Jake, The Amazing Atheist, Shoeonhead, Theryn and now even brain dead Hunter Avallone) => Ollie also jumped on the band wagon and was able to grow his channel as well. He came into contact with ContraPoints and due to his sick narcissism and weird fetisihization of Contra he started to mould his content and "aesthetics" more and more to fit Nyk's content => Ollie internalized his fetishization of Contra so much during the WuFlu pandemic that he actually thinks now that he's somehow Contra and a tranny as well.
I think its way simpler but I'll use a simple analogy since GG is too complicated to cover (as your paragraphs show)
If you raise one group up with an intrinsic value you cant change (gender, race) then the other groups who previously didn't value such things (gender blind, colour blind) start to notice things (insert stop noticing goy joke here). When its in a group that's part of the 'wrong' group (white, male) then its not allowed.
You can see the group consciousness being raised like this in recent race relations in the US (black nationalism on the rise, white nationalism rising following) and Turkey (increase in Turkish nationalism has spurred an increase in Serb, Greek, Armenian and Kurd nationalism). You can see the right and wrong group in the US race relations as well (Black nationalism good, white nationalism bad)
What made GG so weird was it was a group of people who were (mostly) completely politically apathetic, disengaged from society and largely disinterested in it. After all, its (mostly) white dudes who just wanna game. Almost the grilling centrist meme to a T. Maybe they saw it as an easy target? All I know is they thought they were flogging a dead horse (white male) and instead kicked a hornets nest.
EDIT: Post above me goes into way more detail thats better than this, but as a general guide i think this is ok
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