Imagine thinking that anyone is nostalgic for GamerGate, especially when it is increasingly obvious that it was probably a manufactured psyop.
If it weren't for GamerGate you would probably be chasing your dreams instead of becoming a politisperg online.
@Hephaestic Understandable. I'm mostly talking about the grifters and their followers. I feel like so many people gave up their dreams, thinking that they are going to fight a greater cause instead, only to get themselves surrounded by feds, doxed, or worse.
I don't know why Mark is hosting this anniversary meetup. Who is going to show up? Most of the e-celebs have long since checked out and even the followers have long since moved on as well. This is just going to end up being right-wing Dashcon.
Mark is just a terminal attention whore who used to get a small amount of internet fame from being the BO of the most relevant /v/ board in internet history (and even some money from posting news articles to /n/ when old 8chan was in its death throes of becoming a boomer news aggregator).
There was a real spirit of brotherhood among anons in the GamerGate-Trump era from about 2014-2017, when it felt like all our shitposting was actually accomplishing something and that the system could be changed by dismantling your enemies' arguments (and their attachment to advertiser funding). In the years since, this illusion has been shattered and the world has been revealed to be a much darker and smaller place than we believed it. Some people cannot let go.
But calling this right-wing Dashcon would require people to be there. Nothing will come of it.
>If it weren't for GamerGate you would probably be chasing your dreams instead of becoming a politisperg online.
I've seen this point made by many people on fedi and I disagree with it. Gamergate, retarded name and retarded e-celebs aside, was what truly redpilled me on how corrupt the world is and how the media works in lockstep to destroy beautiful things. Video games were a normal, awesome part of the culture when I was a kid (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Unreal Tournament, Mario, whatever).
Then they got really popular thanks to normalfag magnets like Halo and CoD, and that led to them being dogpiled to death by feminists and redditors. I used to think I was just imagining things, that the industry was a complex place full of nuanced business decisions which didn't necessarily always align with my tastes. But shit like the JournoList and Zoey Quinn/Chelsea Van Valkenberg's dies to DARPA, and the Crash Override Network's cringeworthy chat logs made me realize something simple: there are legions of people who think nothing like me, who hate me, and would laugh if I were destroyed.
Yeah, I might have spent years as a political sperg because I still didn't truly grasp how to win friends and influence people - but if it weren't for gamergate (and its co-opting by bluepilled normalfags) then I'd have grown up to be a typical bluepilled normalfag. It was a shock to my system if nothing else. I got to watch AAA video games and media sites parrot the same exact lines in real time for years, and because I knew how video games worked it was all suddenly clear to me how this happened in other industries.
I wouldn't have been able to finish growing up in my late 20s if I hadn't been hyperfixated with it in my early 20s, if that makes sense.