Anti-gamergaters - a quick look at where some of them are now

[Darashiva]

MajorMalfunction said:

Darashiva said:
The whole gamergate thing was such a massive cesspool of idiocy on both sides of the argument that it's no surprise that nothing good ever came out of it. It's just amazing how in an argument that at least supposedly started about ethics in video game journalism became about two equally stupid groups of people trying to see who could yell at the other louder.

So that's why I don't know a goddamn thing about GamerGate. I thought it was about game journalism ethics, which I was on board with, but after that, I have no fucking clue what happened. Can someone explain it to me? I don't know which side I support.

Initially it at least in name was about ethics and transparency in game journalism, but because it initially started from a situation involving a woman working in the industry, you can guess the kind of crowd it attracted. People began attacking female developers regardless of whether they had anything to do with the original situation or not. However, this then drew in the other extreme, which began attacking everyone on the other side, even those people who might have wanted to get something good out of this situation still calling themselves part of the gamergate movement. What was originally about ethics turned into a shit-flinging contest between misogynists and feminists.

Ultimately the whole gamergate debacle ended up as it did because it was taken over by two groups of people holding the opposite extreme views, leaving everyone in the middle powerless to do anything about it. Once the whole thing was taken over by idiots, most people just distanced themselves from the movement entirely so as to not get dragged in with the stupidity. There are certainly other things that happened, but that's the simple explanation at least.