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Can I get an apology for gamer gate now?

When gamergate was happening, I posted that it is a big deal...
white site
  09/28/18
This shit was already happening, game boy
Irradiated slap-happy boltzmann
  09/28/18
I am well aware. But at the time, the consensus was that it ...
white site
  09/28/18
Tweet, tweet
transparent domesticated puppy
  09/28/18
have trouble believing xo consensus disagreed with you on th...
histrionic drab shrine
  09/28/18
I am glad you didn’t. I’ll try to find a post from that time...
white site
  09/28/18
please read all the responses in this thread. thank. ht...
white site
  09/28/18
pathetic showing by these xo poasters. you were right
histrionic drab shrine
  09/28/18
wow
butt cheeks
  02/10/26
No one understands gamer gate u nigger lol
spectacular tantric striped hyena
  09/28/18
we expect more of xo poas
histrionic drab shrine
  09/28/18
Sure
up-to-no-good odious pocket flask abode
  09/28/18
Not until you explain it to me as if I'm a golden retriever
Stirring green alpha gay wizard
  09/28/18
Girl cucked her boyfriend by fucking 5 guys, including a vid...
white site
  09/28/18
This is some pretty good work here brother
Stirring green alpha gay wizard
  09/28/18
and then what? gamers hacked the election in response? how d...
lime razzle preventive strike weed whacker
  09/28/18
it's a cultural issue. they're acting as a bulwark against w...
histrionic drab shrine
  09/28/18
Prior to gamergate, there is no record of anyone standing up...
white site
  09/28/18
what sites besides gawker got shut down?
lime razzle preventive strike weed whacker
  09/28/18
Gawker was the big one. Several large sites struggled signif...
white site
  09/28/18
...
butt cheeks
  02/10/26
Maybe the best summary of gamergate I've ever seen
adventurous blathering travel guidebook stain
  09/28/18
Literally the first time I think I have understood what this...
Cerebral Frum Lodge
  09/28/18
sjws are out of control but gamergate was still some faggot ...
geriatric razzle-dazzle locale
  09/28/18
not at all. SJWs started writing bad reviews for there not b...
histrionic drab shrine
  09/28/18
xo is filled with out of touch gen x boomers. it's true t...
know-it-all swashbuckling coldplay fan legal warrant
  09/28/18
...
violent concupiscible menage telephone
  09/28/18
yep. Around 2012ish many xo poa insisted there was no point ...
walnut gas station boistinker
  09/28/18
lol of course steez is a gamergate geek who nonchalantly say...
navy angry athletic conference den
  09/28/18
I generally don't like deep internet culture but "gamer...
Impressive sanctuary
  09/28/18
been saying this for years
brass titillating national crotch
  09/28/18
trumpmos are over estimating their numbers. they've been act...
lime razzle preventive strike weed whacker
  09/28/18
go back to India
adventurous blathering travel guidebook stain
  09/28/18
gamergate wasn't important because it redpilled "gamers...
Pungent Diverse Pervert
  09/28/18
...
white site
  09/28/18
...
histrionic drab shrine
  09/28/18
I never really understood gamergate, but if it was the nerd ...
transparent domesticated puppy
  09/28/18
what's a Gamergate?
big degenerate factory reset button
  09/28/18
what about comicsgate?
Primrose giraffe feces
  09/28/18
...
Rod Taylor circa The Time Machine / 101 Dalmations
  02/10/26


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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:18 PM
Author: white site

When gamergate was happening, I posted that it is a big deal because the media was deeply biased, and the SJW “women-as-victims” narrative was unfairly and visciously destroying the gaming culture.

At the time, the only response I got was that only neckbeards could give a shit, and that the lying media SJW narrative was not a real problem, but a delusion for losers. Everyone said that SJWs were a niche movement, and would not have any impact on the broader culture.

Is anyone willing to admit now, that perhaps gamers were the canary in the coalmine?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915105)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:20 PM
Author: Irradiated slap-happy boltzmann

This shit was already happening, game boy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915120)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:22 PM
Author: white site

I am well aware. But at the time, the consensus was that it was a fringe problem, and only a nerd would give a shit, and that SJWs were not a problem outside of academia.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915146)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:21 PM
Author: transparent domesticated puppy

Tweet, tweet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915127)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:21 PM
Author: histrionic drab shrine

have trouble believing xo consensus disagreed with you on this. i certainly didn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915132)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:24 PM
Author: white site

I am glad you didn’t. I’ll try to find a post from that time. Despite the thread title, I’m not actually looking for an apology or credit here. I kind of just want to know if the consensus about gamergate has changed in light of these problems exploding into the forefront of the national conversation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915163)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:32 PM
Author: white site

please read all the responses in this thread. thank.

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2712542&mc=20&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915234)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:34 PM
Author: histrionic drab shrine

pathetic showing by these xo poasters. you were right

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915249)



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Date: February 10th, 2026 10:49 AM
Author: butt cheeks (✅🍑)

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49660472)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:23 PM
Author: spectacular tantric striped hyena

No one understands gamer gate u nigger lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915151)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:38 PM
Author: histrionic drab shrine

we expect more of xo poas

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915307)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:35 PM
Author: up-to-no-good odious pocket flask abode

Sure

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915258)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:35 PM
Author: Stirring green alpha gay wizard

Not until you explain it to me as if I'm a golden retriever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915260)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:45 PM
Author: white site

Girl cucked her boyfriend by fucking 5 guys, including a video game journalist. Boyfriend called her out for cheating on him. Gamers realized that the journalist gave her game an extremely high review score, apparently in exchange for sex.

Gamers accused the reviewer of unfair bias. Entire internet exploded because gamers dared to question the integrity of the gaming press after finding out that good reviews could be bought for sexual favors. Gamers were accused of misogyny to deflect from the fact that the gaming press was a dishonest cesspit of fake news.

A woman named Anita Sarkeesian made a YouTube channel dedicated exclusively to denigrating gaming culture, and calling all video games “rape simulators”. Gamers got upset and some sent her mean tweets. She used the mean tweets to rile up the national media against video game culture.

The national media went crazy, twisted the entire narrative, and made the story far more confusing so people couldn’t follow it, and default to a position that women are being abused. Many people fell for the fake news, and assumed that all gamers must be rapists because the media said so.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915372)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: Stirring green alpha gay wizard

This is some pretty good work here brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915382)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:48 PM
Author: lime razzle preventive strike weed whacker

and then what? gamers hacked the election in response? how does all that lead us to where we are today?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915401)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:53 PM
Author: histrionic drab shrine

it's a cultural issue. they're acting as a bulwark against woke SJWs destroying every single last bastion of culture - even fucking video game reviews and the actual design of vidya

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915449)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:01 PM
Author: white site

Prior to gamergate, there is no record of anyone standing up to the SJW narrative in any meaningful way. There was a pattern: SJWs would make unsubstantiated victimhood claims, and the targets of such claims would capitulate and apologize, because that was the socially acceptable thing to do.

Gamergaters were high-functioning autists, and their entire lives revolves around gaming. When their hobby was attacked by SJWs, they did not have the social acumen to gracefully apologize and submit to the SJW agenda. They fought back, and called out the media for lying.

Gamergaters did not win, but they fought the SJWs to a stalemate. Some gaming media sites were actually shut down, and some SJWs lost their jobs. It was the first mass demonstration that the internet could rally against SJWs in a meaningful way.

Gamergate was not the only movement that opened the door to today’s anti-SJW movements, but it was historically significant. Gamergate pioneered organized meme warfare, which was used to great success by Donald Trump’s supporters in 2016. Pepe the frog was a result of gamergate. “Fake News” is today’s analogue to “bias in games journalism”, a much clunkier catchphrase from gamergate. Much of the energy behind Trumps campaign and the rise against cuckery was driven by the cultural forces unleashed in gamergate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915550)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:08 PM
Author: lime razzle preventive strike weed whacker

what sites besides gawker got shut down?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915613)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:18 PM
Author: white site

Gawker was the big one. Several large sites struggled significantly (Gamasutra and NeoGaf come to mind). Many other sites quickly changed their disclosure policies upon losing millions of dollars in advertiser support.

Link related:

http://thisisvideogames.com/gamergatewiki/index.php/GamerGate_Achievements



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915704)



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Date: February 10th, 2026 10:52 AM
Author: butt cheeks (✅🍑)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49660483)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:21 PM
Author: adventurous blathering travel guidebook stain

Maybe the best summary of gamergate I've ever seen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915735)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 9:26 PM
Author: Cerebral Frum Lodge

Literally the first time I think I have understood what this was all about. Thank you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36918622)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:37 PM
Author: geriatric razzle-dazzle locale

sjws are out of control but gamergate was still some faggot neckbeard shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915289)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:40 PM
Author: histrionic drab shrine

not at all. SJWs started writing bad reviews for there not being enough gay trannies. showed that college cultural marxist shit had bled into every piece of culture, even fucking video games. gamers stood up and were crucified for it (and still are)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915320)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:37 PM
Author: know-it-all swashbuckling coldplay fan legal warrant

xo is filled with out of touch gen x boomers.

it's true that nobody cares about vidya itself but it's ridiculous when people argue SJW insanity is confined to the yale gender studies department and doesn't matter irl. although perhaps fewer people would argue that today it was definitely a popular take on xo a couple of years ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915295)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:46 PM
Author: violent concupiscible menage telephone



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915377)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:49 PM
Author: walnut gas station boistinker

yep. Around 2012ish many xo poa insisted there was no point in getting worked up over hardline trans rights shit because it was a "fringe issue" that would never go beyond the internet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915403)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 9:24 PM
Author: navy angry athletic conference den

lol of course steez is a gamergate geek who nonchalantly says "vidya" like it's an actual word

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36918611)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:42 PM
Author: Impressive sanctuary

I generally don't like deep internet culture but "gamergate" did "redpill" a lot of geeks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915337)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:43 PM
Author: brass titillating national crotch

been saying this for years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915357)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:47 PM
Author: lime razzle preventive strike weed whacker

trumpmos are over estimating their numbers. they've been acting like they're a majority when they're far from it. all they're proving is that minority rule doesn't work. that much will be confirmed 5 weeks from now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915388)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:23 PM
Author: adventurous blathering travel guidebook stain

go back to India

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915752)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:58 PM
Author: Pungent Diverse Pervert

gamergate wasn't important because it redpilled "gamers," it was important because it redpilled internet culture in general. in the New Reality, IRL culture has become downstream of internet culture. it's the internet weirdos driving cultural phenomena now, both the crazy tumblr and reddit leftists and the 4chan and frog twitter thought criminals on the right

but yeah you were definitely right in your post that you linked, and the people responding to you were clueless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915521)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:01 PM
Author: white site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915554)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:06 PM
Author: histrionic drab shrine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36915591)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 8:50 PM
Author: transparent domesticated puppy

I never really understood gamergate, but if it was the nerd version of the current lib hysterics, I apologize for not taking you seriously

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36918406)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 9:20 PM
Author: big degenerate factory reset button

what's a Gamergate?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36918589)



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Date: September 28th, 2018 9:23 PM
Author: Primrose giraffe feces

what about comicsgate?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#36918608)



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Date: February 10th, 2026 10:48 AM
Author: Rod Taylor circa The Time Machine / 101 Dalmations



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49660467)