Fell for this initially but bailed out as soon as gamergaters started saying bigoted stuff about gay people.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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Paid promotions are everywhere nowadays. Want your thing in a news article? Few hundred bucks and yahoo publishes your propaganda as an article. No mention of it being paid either.
There’s no ethics in journalism because there’s generally no ethics in business whatsoever.
This always felt like the turning point for the decline of online discourse to me.
Yeah, the fact that Epstein was a fan of 4chan and hung out with moot makes everything about this moment make a lot more sense in retrospect
Same. 2015-16 is when I think everything went to shit. Gamergate. Brexit. Trump. The internet stopped being fun and turned into what it is now.
I remember this starting and just being confused. Somebody made an indie game, some people didn't like the game, and her ex boyfriend says she slept with a guy who blogged about it? Why does anyone who's not directly involved with the situation care?
Yes and the larger picture given was how SJWs (what year is it) were trying to police gaming.
I thought that was going to be the equivalent of Tipper Gore going after metal and hip-hop.
I do remember earlier moral panics about violent video games and music lyrics, but the suggestion that people trying to police political correctness in games was the same kind of threat seemed absurd to me.
On the other hand, the first Witcher game from 2007 has cards the player collects as achievements for having sex with female NPCs, and that doesn't seem like something a major title in 2026 would do unless it was actively trying to be provocative.
Because gaming is a man’s space. The subset of men who believe that statement were looking for a reason to yell about it.
I was surprised to learn that many young men were that sexist. If anything, I figured gamer men would be glad to have more women around because it would increase their chances of getting laid.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Losers are exclusionist, no matter where you find them.
Gamergate was such a wild time. SJWs suddenly started picking apart games for anything they considered offensive. Now nazi-snowflakes are picking apart games for anything they consider "woke" or DEI. "hurrduur, it has one non-white, must be wOKe". The pendulum has swung the other way and maybe in 10 years it'll be back at "ermagerd, her b**bs are too big, that's sexist!".
I like "Nazi-snowflake". I use "orange snowflake".
One of the craziest parts in retrospect to me is Adam Baldwin (Jayne from Firefly (no, not one of those Baldwins)) is the guy who coined the actual term "Gamergate"