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>Gamers mad for a long time that the biggest critics reviews sites that go on somewhere called metacritic.com are also advertizing for the publishers that they're reviewing for, giving 9.5/10 scores to slop
>Female indie developer slept with a Kotaku journalist (review website that's also listed on Metacritic)
>Gamers are already sick of shitty video games being overrated by "professionals"
>Any time they criticize a developer who happens to be female she pulls the "you're just mad I have a vagina" card
>They call out the female indie dev for sleeping with the guy reviewing her game, and say there's a problem with ethics in game journalism
>Kotaku retaliates and drags other journos into the fray, saying it's a harrassment campaign against female developers in gaming
>Gamers start the "#NotYourShield" movement
>An A-list Hollywood Celeb gamer joins in. Adam Baldwic I think, and says something about the role of the woman being to suck cocks
>Leftoids seethe
>He calls it "#GamerGate" for the first time
>it's now being called GamerGate because an A-list celeb validated the incident as something legitimate
>Wow, shill opportunity! Picrel appears
>Anita Sarkeesian starts her Tropes Against Women In Games YouTube series and Patreon
>Brings up the entire back-catalog of games with scripts written by her male partner
>"If an angry thug in a game says the word 'Bitch' I feel like it's the game itself calling me a bitch!" (actual quote)
>Gamers lose their cool. This is getting retarded
>Sarkeesian complains about death threats and cancels her con appearances
>IGN and all the major Metacritic partners run podcasts where they start talking in favor of women in games, and start using "Gamer" as a derogatory term.
This is when feminism really took off, and this is the start of what is now the "incel" problem. You be the judge.
qrd in short is that journalists felt threatened when gamers turned agains them and in turn succeeded in stigmatizing gamers.