One of the dumbest things #GamerGate ever did was take the "Literally Who?" approach to the anti-gamer Professional Victims that were going all around the media smearing gamers and pushing leftist talking points. Digging up dirt on Enemy figureheads and going out of your way to shit up their reputation is such a basic part of any propaganda war, and yet GG just unilaterally surrendered on that front as soon as Metokur left.

And obviously, the Literally Who approach achieved absolutely NONE of its supposed goals - fucking hell, Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn (aka Chelsea Van Valkenburg) got invited to the fucking UN while GGers were refusing to say a single bad word about them. If we had continued to "smear" Zoe Quinn, she probably wouldn't have been able to drive that one guy to suicide with false rape accusations later on.

Muh Moral High Ground grandstanding KILLS.

@ChristiJunior
I agree. And it's a shame to admit, that it was mishandled so badly.

The response to a murderer psychopath should never be "literally who", but "that murderous psychopath?" But, we seriously had no idea what kind of human plague were we talking to at the time. Sargon even said, that the biggest misconception he had was, that the SJWs were just mislead, and that he could just talk them out of being evil.

@LukeAlmighty @ChristiJunior
In retrospect, it's easy to identify Quinn as a murderous psychopath. But for everyone at that time, she was a "literally who". We didn't have any information on these people because they weren't public figures, and GG didn't have anyone that mingled alongside Zoe, Wu or Sarkeesian. Nobody really had an actual conversation with these people, to get to understand how they think.
Even for Sarkeesian, who was more out there than the other attention whores, it took years, until McIntosh left her and she was left doing (or rather failing at doing) content on her own, that it became clear how much of a sock puppet she had been all along.

Identifying a psychopath is not an easy task, and even now, we don't want to fall into the mental trap of calling "psychopath" anyone who disagrees with us, because that will lead us into the same self gaslighting pattern that the left went down.

I've seen the left doing it since the online atheist movement of late 2000s. At some point, they stopped actually responding to Christian arguments, and they'd just accuse anyone right-wing of being stupid, racist, sexist, etc., and they self gaslight into believing that being right-wing was in fact synonymous with anything bad. And I think this then allowed them to be vulnerable to psychopaths taking over.

Cause once they had formed this environment where left=good, and right=bad, all a psychopath needs to do to avoid suspicion is to claim he's on the good side, while using all their vile psychopathic tendencies to attack the right-wing. And since the right-wing are by definition bad, any kind of attack is justifiable. If anyone from the left looks at you, just scream "Black Lives Matter" louder, or put on a wig, and you'll avoid scrutiny.

Coming back to the original point, regarding the "literal whos" of Gamergate. By the time people realized what Quinn, or Wu, were actually capable of, it was a bit late, and they went back to not actually mattering in the grand scheme of things, cause they weren't the main driving force of the SJW/woke phenomenon anymore. They were just a couple of stupid broads that pocked their heads out a bit too early. The real driving force were corrupt journalists (not just gaming journalists), universities, consulting companies, entertainment companies that became corrupted with most people not realizing it, international organizations etc. The fight was much larger than a handful of psychopathic narcissist women.

Maybe if people kept their attention on Zoe, Alec Holowka would still be alive. But the fight quickly became much bigger, against an ideology that threatens the lives of many, many more people, to the point where, no offense intended, Alec Holowka doesn't matter as much.

Was Gamergate wrong in how it did things? Sure. I've been saying for years that Gamergate, as a movement, was a complete failure. But it's possible that part of the reason it was such a failure is because it was such an early battle in the "culture war".

People were unfamiliar with the ideological traps the left had created, people didn't realize how far the cult had spread, and "racist" was still powerful against everyone of all political persuasions.
Gamergate was doomed to fail because even if you had the right approach at that time (and I know @ChristiJunior personally had, cause I remember his username/avatar from Twitter in those days) there were simply not enough "soldiers" willing to fight as hard as it was needed to accomplish anything.

We've seen today how much of a failure Concord was, because people were willing to call out the ideological driven uglification and all that. There were enough "soldiers" to spread the message, and everyone had been exposed to woke cult for long enough, to be receptive of the message "don't buy Concord".
Well, that didn't work for Mass Effect Andromeda, one of the earlier cases of woke ideology fucking up a game to the point of making women intentionally ugly. And it didn't work because people were simply incredulous. Normies hadn't been exposed to the shit for long enough to recognize the patterns. People weren't receptive to the message "don't buy this woke game" yet.

There might have been better ways in which Gamergate could have been fought, but I don't know if there was a legitimate chance for the results to be that much better. People who noticed Gamergate back then, were a select few who noticed something happening to the culture a decade before everyone else noticed. Not enough people to scream loud enough to make actual lasting change.

P.S. This is why I use Bing as a search engine, rather than Google. It actually understood the question and pulled info on Alec Holowka, the victim, instead of promoting the criminal.

@alyx @LukeAlmighty @ChristiJunior The good news is Chelsea Van Valkenburg and Anita Sarkeesian are now fat and irrelevant and then there is this:
https://archive.ph/fBYwJ

I have a offer for the Games industry: I play Path of Exile all day or even read a book while you life in cardbox without any food in your tummy. How about a life as useless NEET going slowly crazy from all the garbage on the internet, huh? I don't have to put up with clickbait and 80 dollar video games.

@maxmustermann @ChristiJunior @alyx
Yes, some victories are worth celebrating

@LukeAlmighty @maxmustermann @ChristiJunior
Oh god... I cringe so bad every time I see this picture. All the "I married myself" and "I married the Eiffel Tower" people are so fucking nuts. And Sarkeesian is somehow the worst of them, cause she didn't even have the guts to say it directly. A weeb that "marries" Hatsune Miku is just slightly less cringe then she is with this dumb post. "wedding-themed birthday"... the stupid cope.

@alyx @LukeAlmighty @ChristiJunior At leas the weeb marrying a cartoon keeps a tiny piece of his dignity by marrying something.