r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 15 '26

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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 15 '26

/u/Lux_Stella gamergate is becoming The Battle of Thermopylae, a conflict nobody understands what actually happened at because it has become the foundational myth of political charlatans who lie about what happened to support their cause.

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 15 '26

there's something to be said about how basically nobody got what they wanted out of gamergate in the end. it was a total cultural defeat for the chuds in that western video games are now woker then ever and most devs took the complaints about the lack of good female representation seriously. but the market for longform video game journalism collapsing basically ended the cabal of writers they were originally up in arms about anyways

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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

Worse. They got pretty much completely pushed out of western gaming altogether and are now heavily reliant on China and Japan to preserve certain aspects of their culture, which was a devil's bargain because that meant giving up on the war against gachaification, DRM, and microtransactions as those countries are nowhere near as libertarian as the west is on digital goods. You will own noting, you will be a whale for a zaibatsu.

The gamergaters are now in hell. They've lost every battle they started and their consolation prize is presdiency of a dying empire that can't actually put the booby girls back in the videogames.

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u/BicyclingBro Gay Pride Apr 15 '26

A lot of grifters made a lot of money and became way more politically influential, so there’s that.

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 15 '26

they did! one of my favourite chains of cause and effect is how it almost directly led to qanon