as someone who was paying attention since the early 5 guys days, it was mismanaged on the gamer side, it allowed the woke media to build a narrative they all parroted and essentially "legitimize" calling anyone who had a problem with the pay for play and obvious growing leftist opinion in games media as a misogynistic bigot. the downstream effects include every studio being full of leftwing trannys, and the destruction of any moderate games journalism, you are either leftwing now or you simply cannot compete, you will be denied access.

the gamers lost.

>>539517220
>the gamers lost.
good.. fuck those faggots

>>539517220
The 'gamers' shifted their attention to MAGA and other neo populist movements, however. This can be noticed in how a lot of gamergate figures pivoted right into politics or the 'intellectual dark web' like Sargon where the digital base of MAGA was formed. Gaming is a lost cause and I think a lot of older guys into games realized that when this all went down, there is no unfucking any entertainment medium when the educational institutions that feed them indoctrinate people. STEM was relatively non woke or 'nerd woke' until the 2010s when the trans thing took off and there was a big push to put nonwhite/men into the degrees, and STEM is what fed the gaming industry's labor and creative pool.

>>539517399
i would agree with that, another thing it did was stamp out the grassroots pushback places like kotaku were getting for their brain-damage tier leftwing nonsense articles, and then after gamergate you started to see more of those sorts of lgbt articles from other outlets, any criticism was used to farm engagement and claim victim status.