• krashmo@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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.

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      12 hours 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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      20 hours ago

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

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        13 hours 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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        15 hours 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.