The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking.
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It always circles back to Gamergate with these people, doesn't it? An internet slapfight that wrapped up about five years ago now, and they still blame it for everything that goes wrong in their lives. I especially love the hyperbolic "our world is collapsing" line, oh so dramatic.
To get off on a bit of a tangent, GG isn't the cause of the "world collapsing." It was just a symptom of a greater frustration with progressive ideologues, the modern Puritans that are the SJWs. To be told constantly that everything you like is bad and wrong, to have your few sources of joy and entertainment be taken over by shrill harridans with a hateboner for fun, to see everything you care about be politicized whether you like it or not...there's truly only so much one can take before you have to speak up. Entertainment is by and large escapism, a chance to get away from your troubles and immerse yourself in a different world for a while. When you're deprived of that option, it gets to you after a while.
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@Jaimas has pointed out numerous times, GG sticks out in these people's minds because it was the first high-profile time that they lost, even if it doesn't look like it at first glance. The various Literally Whos have continued various grifts, but without anywhere near as much success as pre-GG. Others are out of the industry altogether, and slowly the vidya industry is returning to a focus on making fun games over preaching a heavy-handed message. If the wild success of Doom Eternal and the enormous backlash to the TLOU2 leaks are any indication, the apolitical side of gaming is stronger than ever.
You could make something of an argument that GG did have some kind of impact on the anti-SJW sentiments in politics, I suppose. Andrew Breitbart always said that politics is downstream from culture, after all. GG showed that progressives are nowhere near as numerous or powerful as they like to portray themselves, and it likely got quite a few people to question their politics and work to fight back against them in other areas. But it's laughable to claim that an internet slapfight directly led to Brexit or Trump or antiglobalist sentiments. This shit has been brewing for years, decades even. Things were coming to a breaking point one way or the other, and I'm glad we're not going down the path of total Chinese capitulation (for now).
Anyway, enough rambling. Back on topic: Bob's fat.