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Gamergate was at least easy to ignore. I still don’t really know what it was about. Always seemed like pointless internet drama to me. That may or may not be true but it hasn’t been a problem to stay ignorant about the topic. You can’t ignore what’s happening now unless you don’t use the internet at all and even that isn’t going to be completely effective.

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madjo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Gamergate was at least easy to ignore.

Except if you’re a woman and operated in gaming spaces.

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- krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Which I’m not so yeah, it was pretty easy.
  
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  - Breezy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I read your comment as ‘not yet’ so i was concerned about the down votes till i reread it.
    
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    madjo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    His privilege is shining brightly though.
    
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yata@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It was about incels spouting misogyny and all other imaginable forms of bigotry. It served as yet another fascism pipeline for a lot of kids.

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demizerone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I literally did not know about the facts of gamer gate until like two years ago. It was all Twitter bullshit, and that’d why I had no idea what it was. Some of the people involved made a loving out of it is seems.

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- krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yeah I heard some stuff about it at the time but not much. About 5 years later I started reading an article about it but only got like 2 paragraphs in before I remembered why I never paid attention to it the first time around and quit reading.
  
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- futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  Some of the people involved made a living out of it is seems.
  
  Like that animated chunk of rotten Spam, Bannon.
  
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