It wasn’t coordinated journalists became the story, became the target, and one well-presented article became the core of their defensive reaction. 'Gamers' are over., and this was the article that was the root of a “coordinated drop”. When people refer to a “gamers are dead” push, they are inevitably referring to 'Gamers' don't have to be your audience.

The whole “denouncing gamer” was saying while the stereotype of male basement-dwelling Cheeto-eaters was still alive and well, the reality of more women playing Candy Crush than men playing CoD (or whatever) meant that the reality of gamers being gamers was dead.

I feel like in an alternative universe where the proto alt-right didn't hijack it, GG could have been something legitimate cause journalism did do some particularly weird shit around the time. They made it about how being a lefty in itself is bad actually and defending women is soy or whatever the fuck. Aaaand then the right wing grifters pretty much immediately latched onto it and twisted and tunred everything into bigotry and propaganda. It feels like gamergate at least partially was a reaction to a real issue where online gaming journalism did the noticable switch from 'we review games and report industry news' to 'we do A LOT of opinion pieces and clickbait and are very vocal about our politics'.Īctivism in the 'we report and talk gaming stuff'-space was increasingly becoming a thing and there was a period where the genuine people had to figure how to make good political articles without coming off like a lunatic + this was the first time many gamers were faced with the change in how modern internet news lives off of clickbait and sensationalism. There's a lot to say about gaming and it's sexism issues, but demonizing bayonetta for its female protag and shaming those who liked her in a game review came off very very bad for example, even if there was an underlying general issue with how women were portrayed in games that is worth talking about. The organized attempt to denounce 'gamers' came off really fucked to me for example.Īdd to that, many writers were a bit too open about their activism and misapplied it. If you weren't too deep into gam er culture, but part of gam ing culture, it was easy to see a bunch of outlets having an odd spin in many of their articles and taking those as attacks on the readers as a whole rather than a specific subculture.

GG seemed fairly reasonable at the beginning

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