>>713562347
it was never JUST about journalism.
More about a broader political movement that started, coincidentally, at the same time Occupy Wall Street did. Where social justice became a huge issue across many different scenes.
Many of the smaller forums I was on had already been coopted by a handful of these types, well before gamergate happened.
Gamergate was a reaction by gamers against the "social justice-ification" of gaming by outside influences