Lowtax banning hentai on something awful was the catalyst for the acceleration of fascism in the US.
How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become.
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/03/23/us/gamergate-harassment-reddit-twitter-cec/index.html
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CptInsane0@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
At least he took the fascist’s way out.
krashmo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
madjo@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Gamergate was at least easy to ignore.
Except if you’re a woman and operated in gaming spaces.
krashmo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Which I’m not so yeah, it was pretty easy.
yata@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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.
demizerone@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
krashmo@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
futatorius@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Some of the people involved made a living out of it is seems.
Like that animated chunk of rotten Spam, Bannon.
Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I met a gamergate weirdo on Lemmy today
Naevermix@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s crazy and sad that they still exist. That shit was a decade ago.
Flemmy@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
In a time when I read this kind of news on Gamespot or GameSpy. G8tv and a lot of convention goers that became internet famous before twitch existed. The “gamergate” news happened at the worst time in the gaming industry where game reviewers were bribed for a 10/10 clipart seal. And the shady stuff happening with cosplay cons… Etc it only concerned people in the business.
klu9@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
MAGA:
- Make
- America
- Gamergate
- Always
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That and 8chan. Did we all collectively forget about 8chan? Functionally, I was hoping it would be like lemmy. It quickly turned into a place where every racist, violent, pedophile trickled to when they get deplatformed. Now they just use facebook.
sloppychops@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That’s the problem with ‘deplatforming.’
The crazies migrate to another platform and then that platform gets bigger and crazier and perhaps eventually competes with the original, more mainstream platforms.
MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We need some sort of “immune system” to handle these extremes, deplatforming is kinda like moving the disease to another part of the body where there is no “immune system”. Defederating might create the same effect.
I don’t know how to handle it, but we might need more “normal” average people participating in a compassionate understanding way, with those that have lost their way. Because right now there are plenty of Russian bots that encourage the wildest conspiracies and world views, but also plenty of people with idle time on their hands encouraging it also.
We will meet this challenge more and more as the fediverse grows. At this moment it’s not worth the investment to spread misinformation probably.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We even forgot about Twitter during Trump‘s campaign and first term. No way anyone remembers 8Chan.