As you may know, what ended up being referred to with the name "Gamergate" was a massive online consumer revolt, mostly consisting of gamers who were sick of political correctness in video games and, especially, in video game journalism, identity politics forcefully shoved into their hobby and their faces, and the ever increasing trend of attacking, defaming and belittling gamers as a demographic. The movement also became a big protest against corruption in gaming journalism. (This corruption included things like collusion between journalists, accepting bribes and favoritism from publishers in exchange of good reviews and visibility, among other things.)
It appears that if there's one thing that journalists cannot stand, it's criticism against them, their profession, and how they are doing their job. They feel attacked, and if the attack is strong enough, they get extraordinarily defensive and turn it into an unrelenting offensive. If the journalist is also a social justice warrior, or very sympathetic to the regressive leftist "intersectional feminist" ideology, doubly so. Their regressive leftist ideology only fuels their rage and indignation, and magnifies it ten-fold. A hundred-fold.
So how do we know that Gamergate was actually successful, and that it hit corrupt regressive leftist journalists where it really hurt them? By the fact that even to this day, like two years after the revolt has pretty much died out, these journalists still cannot just shut up about Gamergate. They are still, today, two years after the movement, writing slanderous articles about Gamergate, trying to defame it, slander it, and connect it to everything bad under the Sun. (In fact, many of these articles seem to assume that Gamergate is still active and in full force, even though they are the only ones talking about it. They seem to make this assumption deliberately, just to be able to slander it, and make connections to current events.)
That's how hard you know they were hit by the movement. They still haven't got over the butthurt. The movement hit them were it really hurts, and they just can't stand it.
It appears that if there's one thing that journalists cannot stand, it's criticism against them, their profession, and how they are doing their job. They feel attacked, and if the attack is strong enough, they get extraordinarily defensive and turn it into an unrelenting offensive. If the journalist is also a social justice warrior, or very sympathetic to the regressive leftist "intersectional feminist" ideology, doubly so. Their regressive leftist ideology only fuels their rage and indignation, and magnifies it ten-fold. A hundred-fold.
So how do we know that Gamergate was actually successful, and that it hit corrupt regressive leftist journalists where it really hurt them? By the fact that even to this day, like two years after the revolt has pretty much died out, these journalists still cannot just shut up about Gamergate. They are still, today, two years after the movement, writing slanderous articles about Gamergate, trying to defame it, slander it, and connect it to everything bad under the Sun. (In fact, many of these articles seem to assume that Gamergate is still active and in full force, even though they are the only ones talking about it. They seem to make this assumption deliberately, just to be able to slander it, and make connections to current events.)
That's how hard you know they were hit by the movement. They still haven't got over the butthurt. The movement hit them were it really hurts, and they just can't stand it.
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