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Hate crusades in gamer "activism" ? What's actually happening?
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I think Gamergate and the Alt-Right could be analyzed as the right figuring out how to mobilize masses of people using new communications technologies. Back in the day I was playing a large scale MMO where one of the factions was almost entirely guys who, in retrospect, were very obviously the petri dishes from which the Alt-Right spawned. In that sense your "stain" theory checks out - After that the new awareness that online gate campaigns could cause significant disruption and gain a lot of attention spread and we've seen a bunch of smaller campaigns happen.