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"I feel like there's been a weird mini-resurgence of anti-woke/manosphere/Gamergate content getting promoted in the algorithm for the first time since like 2017."
"Tired of this bullshit. Someone needs to stand up for ethics in online recipe reviews. Google shows me "The BEST peanut butter cookie recipe - soft moist delicious, 4.999 star rating" Then I make it and the cookies are dry and crumbly."
"No matter how many times this is explained to me I don't get it. And people say it created all modern discourse. I also have a hunch that the 'gamer' side consisted of manchildren, let me know if I'm wrong"
"That was the year when identity politics went from being a joke on Tumblr to something the mainstream media endorses, the Alt-Right had its roots in the GamerGate controversey, the Incel movement formed around Elliott Roger, BlackLivesMatter went mainstream, and all other huge events."
"GamerGate and 4chan vs. Tumblr started in 2013-2014 and became the inception of modern day culture wars."
"It was the birth of the 'alt-right' and Steve Bannon has openly stated that Gamergate was what showed him that ideas that were considered far right and fringe were much more widespread then he had ever thought. The 2016 Trump Campaign and by extension presidency would not have been possible without "
"To give you an example, I'm pretty political and online (I'm here after all, also on twitter, fb, IG, etc) but my cousin had to explain Gamergate to me in 2019 or I would have probably gone another few years in blissful ignorance."