Granted it was during a bleak period of my life when I was so reactionary. But my god, to think these goobers are still around today, still doing racism and sexism, just moving from target to target to take out the impotent rage on.
Just reminded of it today with the “discourse” of Yasuke being in Ass Creed and G*mers changing any woman not white and waifish with AI.
i wasn’t old enough for gamergate but if it makes you feel better i was watching islamophobes back in 2017… as a muslim. it didn’t last long though because somehow “the muslims are coordinating mass r*pe on teenage white girls in no-go zones in sweden” wasn’t a compelling message.
Yeah, I used to be really into the g*mergate/anti-sjw side of youtube back when I was a teenager. Now I’m a queer neurodivergent communist
exactly, theres something to be said about how many of us know somethings wrong with liberalism, but cannot pinpoint it exactly. Of course since the largest voice on our easiest to reach media is far right, we’d stumble down that for a bit. within a short while, it just gets more and more absurd, seeming just as wrong as liberalism. That is where marxism comes in.
then you’re trans
Don’t feel too bad. I mean ffs I bought and took ivermectin early on in covid (got taken in by the supposedly promising results in latin america and the doctors promoting it on the michael brooks show). I was literally on 4chan as a kid but never got into GamerGate somehow. Not sure if it was before or after my time.
I had a reactionary period of my life as a young teen and I value it. It gave me a window into their mindset that I use to understand it and better my criticism of it. I grew up a pretty devout catholic, for example, and that enables me to not have boilerplate reddit atheist criticism of it. I go for the soft spots. The real juicy morsels.
When gamergate dropped I was dating and living with a “not like other girls” woman but luckily neither of us got invested into it despite being a little “primed” so to speak. If I had been some doomer incel maybe I’d have gotten into it but the bullet was dodged. I still had some reactionary views and lots of room to grow and still do but that’s life. It is a process and anyone who has 100% “correct opinions” is regurgitating something they were told without really thinking aboutit, a liar, or they’ve never been tested.
It’s okay to look back and go “yeesh those were dark days” but don’t be too hard on your younger self. You wouldn’t be here without them and think about how much weirder it would be to have those growing pains now. Think about other dumb shit we do as kids like climbing a tree only to fall and break an arm. I’d rather use youthful bone growth at 14 than 45.
👵 Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time… I think back then I was SRS and an anarchist 🤷♀️
