• dasgoat@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    8chan and 4chan were instrumental in creating the disease that is gamergate and the subsequent online shitheaps it produced. Including but not limited to Trump’s term.

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      10 months ago

      gamergate was a meaningless troll movement. To imply that they got trump elected is moronic.

      • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        It was a watershed moment for the alt-right’s propaganda machine. It’s defined fascist recruiting tactics ever since and it absolutely played a role in Trump’s election. Gamergate was a dramatic shift of the status quo, as ridiculous as it was, to diminish it’s role in shaping the last few years is just ignorant