[jcranmer]

A few years back, in one of my social media forums, I made an offhand joke about "it's about ethics in videogame journalism," since I figured that I wasn't in a toxic gaming community and that, you know, GamerGate was a thing of the past that wasn't representative of anyone actually participating in today's conversations. Cue someone who got very upset about the idea that GamerGate had any misogyny at all about it and the next hour or so of discussion descended into frantic attempts to defend the idea that it wasn't tinged with misogyny.

No, the underlying group of toxic gamers is still alive and kicking today, even if they may not be entirely visible in your circles.

[optionalsquid]

There is currently a lot noise being generated because people noticed that Anita Sarkeesian consulted on Slay the Spire 2 (an amazing game, by the way). The main subreddit for GamerGate is also still very active. Those people never went away and they never figured out that they were tilting at windmills

[vkou]

Turds will continue to be turds. What's reassuring is that normal people have largely stopped giving their nonsense the time of day.

What's less reassuring is that all those kids grew up and are now voting.