Want to know what #gamergate is really all about?

[LostInAnomie]

39. I know where the movement really comes from.

Gamergate is just a catchy hashtag for a groundswell of frustration with gaming journalism that gamers have felt for almost a decade. A lot of GGers cite the firing of Jeff Gerstmann for giving low scores to big studio releases as a root cause. Others will point to IGN's Doritogate, where game journalists were tweeting positive things about Halo 4 for game swag and doing promos surrounded by Mt. Dew and Dorito merch. Others will point to the non-game Gone Home getting perfect reviews from journalists personally linked with the developers, and being voted game of the year even though it wasn't even a game. People were already primed to dislike gaming journalism. The events that led to the gamergate hashtag were just a catalyst.

It's funny that Ars Techinca would decry people coordinating to push their angle on a story. They would know what colluding would look like afterall, since their senior gaming editor is a member of "gamejournopro". In case you don't know what that is, it's a group of gaming journalists that were exposed by Milo Yiannopoulos (who later received death threats) for coordinating major gaming publications' response to gamergate. This response was the releasing of 12 articles across all major online gaming publications hitting the same talking point that "gamers were dead" that they were all "violent, white male misogynists" that were theatened by "women in gaming".

Guess what the media narrative of gamergate has been ever since. I'll give you a hint, it has literally been dripping from almost every anti-gamergate post in this thread.