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Gamergate became a notable cultural component of the so-called alt-right in the 2016 American presidential election. Some in the gamergate movement went on to be part of the alt-right.

• Cross-over,
• same techniques
• precursor.
• clear entities
  • Breitbart
    • Pizzagate?
  • Bannon
    • Trump
    • Pepe the frog?
  • Milo
    • Davis
    • Auerbach
    • Lyons
    • Sunderland
  • Mike Cernovich

quotes

• "Quinn sees a connection too, between Gamergate and Trump’s online grassroots supporters."
  • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/24/zoe-quinn-gamergate-online-abuse

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• the disturbing cross-over between the Alt-Right and some gaming communities, including GamerGate.
• In the video, Emma Vossen, a PhD candidate at Waterloo Games Institute, says that the same techniques used by GamerGate members were also used by Trump supporters.

http://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/news/tracing-link-between-gamergate-trump-supporters-alt-right-w510618

• One of the precursors to the rise of the alt-right was a massive, coordinated harassment campaign masquerading as a pseudo-political movement called Gamergate.

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/9k3wy8/zoe-quinn-on-surviving-gamergate-and-the-rise-of-the-alt-right

• The similarities between Gamergate and the far-right online movement, the “alt-right”, are huge, startling and in no way a coincidence. After all, the culture war that began in games now has a senior representative in The White House. As a founder member and former executive chair of Brietbart News, Steve Bannon had a hand in creating media monster Milo Yiannopoulos, who built his fame and Twitter following by supporting and cheerleading Gamergate. This hashtag was the canary in the coalmine, and we ignored it.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/01/gamergate-alt-right-hate-trump

• Davis was subsequently hired as a research intern for Yiannopoulos, who is also affiliated with the Gamergate community.
  • http://www.businessinsider.com/former-milo-yiannopoulos-intern-killed-his-own-father-alt-right-circles-online-trump-2017-10

• Tech reporter Dan Lyons would also reach out to Yiannopoulos, according to Buzzfeed, persistently inquiring about the gender assigned at birth to both Zoë Quinn, a video game developer and GamerGate target, and Amber Discko, the founder of the feminist website Femsplain.
• And former Slate tech writer David Auerbach allegedly passed on information about the relationship status of Anita Sarkeesian, another GamerGate target. He contended that everything Buzzfeed wrote about him is “categorically false.”
  • https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/journalists-alt-right-bully-female_us_59d77fb2e4b046f5ad97a6be

• This alliance, the “alt-right”, forms a new identity politics of wounded narcissism. White boys of all ages, consumed with rage and self-pity, dream of themselves as heroic blond warriors for civilisation, but in real life they mostly just gang up to bully women. They seem the pallid mirror images of the lost souls who form one of the most common sorts of jihadi sympathisers in the west.
• This makes the “alt-right” more powerful and more dangerous than previous far-right movements, since it uses the deceptive intimacy of online life to merge the political and the personal in a way that conventional democratic politicians find increasingly hard. One of the earliest manifestations was Gamergate, the campaign of bullying and abuse directed at female game developers three years ago. The relentless harassment, death and rape threats and deliberate violations of privacy were all parts of the larger fascist pattern.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2017/oct/06/the-guardian-view-of-the-white-nationalists-tomorrow-must-not-belong-to-them

• Additionally, while the majority of Gamergaters resent the affiliation, many of the movement's leading figures, who were right wing pundits before Gamergate, have graduated from rallying against political correctness in games to supporting Trump and the alt-right.
• Mike Cernovich, Milo Yiannopoulos,
  • https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bm5wd4/under-trump-gamergate-can-stop-pretending-it-was-about-games

• Soon, the mob's attention turned to a world much wider than video games. Ultimately, some of them -- like the popular right-wing commentator Mike Cernovich -- moved on from GamerGate to attack presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
  • https://www.cnet.com/news/gamergate-to-trump-how-video-game-culture-blew-everything-up/

• He had already insinuated himself into public conflicts in order to gain followers. (“Conflict is attention.”) And in 2014 he became a champion of GamerGate, a vicious campaign against feminists in the video-game industry. He goaded his opponents on Twitter: “Who cares about breast cancer and rape? Not me.” Cernovich’s affiliation with GamerGate made him, he said, “toxic in the eyes of a lot of people,” but he calculated that the exposure was worth it.
  • https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/trolls-for-trump

• Yet, hostility toward women and people of color thrives on 4chan and on Reddit, the social sharing site whose political and gaming forums /r/the_donald and /r/kotakuinaction are popular with the alt-right. In 2014, 4chan and Reddit users launched an elaborate campaign of rape and death threats against female video game developers that became known as Gamergate. They found champions in Yiannopoulos, who argued that the true victims were the men whose gaming culture was being destroyed by “feminist bullies” and the “achingly politically correct” tech press, and in Mike Cernovich, a blogger who has trumpeted the neuroticism and other alleged weaknesses of women as well as what he claims to be the criminal proclivities of certain ethnic groups.
  • http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/silicon-valley-tech-alt-right-racism-misogyny/

• Many in the Alt-Right, including Spencer, see Cernovich as little more than a grifter, collecting wannabe grifters along with way with the the promise of internet stardom—and rightly so. He’s peddled the reactionary flavor of the month, whether its Men’s Rights, or GamerGate, or Trump, all the way to a massive online following and an interview with 60 Minutes.
• (also stuff about spencer)
  • https://gizmodo.com/the-far-right-alliance-is-over-1796418882

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• • https://www.glamour.com/story/brianna-wu-faced-down-the-alt-right-and-now-shes-running-for-congress

• Over the past few years, Gamergate and male-centric Reddit communities have popularized the idea of “social justice warriors,” commonly abbreviated as SJWs. This disparaging label is an updated way to accuse progressives of extreme political correctness. The “SJW” label is a huge and successful weapon in the alt-right’s arsenal; it paints feminists as manipulative, oversensitive, shrill women who attack men with claims of sexism at the tiniest of provocations while rejecting their sexual advances.
• Men who deploy the “SJW” attack seek to reestablish control and agency over the cultural conversation by ridiculing progressive attempts to seek greater diversity and representation in media, and to dismiss basically anything that could be deemed “multiculturalism” or representation (see: Gamergate and this year’s Ghostbusters backlash).
• However, nested within the alt-right’s fight against SJWs is a flagrantly radical, white supremacist element.
  • https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/14/13576192/alt-right-sexism-recruitment

• This won't come as a surprise to any woman, Jew, Muslim, African American, Latinx or LGBTQ person who either works in technology or uses technology in their spare time. From the misogynistic crusade known as Gamergate and the rise of right-wing YouTube to the symbiotic relationship between President Donald Trump and right-wing Internet trolls, it is clear that the Internet has been a boon for individuals trying to spread hate-filled agendas.
  • https://www.salon.com/2017/10/06/tech-bros-and-white-supremacists-a-union-based-in-paranoia-and-power/

• Devil's Bargain reported that Milo Yiannopoulos helped Bannon draw in the Gamergate community and turn them on to politics and Trump. Bee made a Game of Thrones reference in her recap, calling Bannon the "mother of Pepes" saying he helped free the "very unsullied" and gave them something to fight against. "Specifically, a woman," she added highlighting a photo of Hillary Clinton.
  • http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/samantha-bee-steve-bannon-book-report-1028359

• And the truth of it is that today, online abuse and offline abuse meld together. Consider the threat to Quinn’s book event – the heckler yelling out at her from the back of of her New York talk. And with the rise of Donald Trump, a lot of the same people who used to spew vile racist and sexist threats anonymously on the internet feel emboldened to voice their hate openly. There is a reason many “alt-right” protesters are organizing online and showing up to events waving signs based on internet memes.
• Quinn sees a connection too, between Gamergate and Trump’s online grassroots supporters.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/24/zoe-quinn-gamergate-online-abuse

• (And, as many have posited, Gamergate's tactics begat those of today's so-called alt-right movement.)
• Gamergate was to right-wing political doxing what doxing Scientologists was to Anonymous: turning the crosshairs away from public figures and toward regular people you happen to disagree with. Auernheimer was a prominent, vocal supporter of the campaign, calling it "by far the single biggest siren bringing people into the folds of white nationalism." Gamergate's timing couldn't have been better for him: he'd just been released from more than three years in prison for exposing 114,000 iPad users' email addresses (a controversial sentence many thought of as too harsh, given that a security flaw had rendered the information freely available). *Since then, he's become an avatar of doxing's moral gray areas for both sides. To the trollish right, he's a martyr, and a champion of digital free speech. To the progressive left, he's an example of how online harassment law can be both lax and draconian.
  • https://www.wired.com/story/journalism-isnt-doxing-alt-right/

timeline

• • http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/alt-right-timeline-bannon-breitbart-trump/

• Sean Illing
  • Is there a “Big Bang” moment for the alt-right, a cultural event that helped explode it into being?
• Angela Nagle
  • Trump was the big explosive moment. Obviously there have been reactionary online for many years before Trump, but Trump’s campaign was the moment where it all went completely mainstream. Gamergate was very significant in bringing together a whole cross section of people who were anti–political correctness, but a lot of these people weren’t necessarily right-wing. They were cultural libertarians or free speech enthusiasts, but there wasn’t a lot of political organizing. That changed with Trump. All the anti-PC stuff, the anti-immigration politics, the trolling campaigns — Trump boosted all of that into the mainstream.
• Sean Illing
  • When someone identifies themselves as alt-right, what are they trying to signal? Or maybe a better way to put it is what are they defining themselves against?
  • https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/7/21/15998246/alt-right-donald-trump-angela-nagle-kill-all-normies-interview

• "I realized Milo could connect with these kids right away," Bannon told Green. "You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump."
• Yiannopoulos devoted much of Bretibart's tech coverage to cultural issues, particularly Gamergate, a long-running online argument over gaming culture that peaked in 2014. And that helped fuel an online alt-right movement sparked by Breitbart News.
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/18/steve-bannon-learned-harness-troll-army-world-warcraft/489713001/

• “Gamergate” is the term now used to describe the movement in which Internet trolls attacked high-profile people in the game industry if they attempted to change — or even speak out about — the misogynistic themes of video games. They are the gaming world’s radical right, and they’re fighting back against what they see as the onslaught of politically correct culture.
• Now at least one of the people who provided a platform for the movement is headed for the White House.
• Stephen K. Bannon oversaw the far-right Breitbart News, which published numerous articles about Gamergate, before becoming Donald Trump’s campaign chief executive. One report, from 2014, carried this headline: “Feminist bullies tearing the video game industry apart.” Today, Bannon is Trump’s pick for White House chief strategist and senior counselor.
• The trajectories of Trump and Gamergate could be practically charted by the same graph — guys (for the most part) that a significant portion of the country didn’t take seriously pandered to humanity’s most base instincts and won. Entertainment and politics are becoming increasingly blurred. The president-elect, for instance, regularly tweets about “Saturday Night Live,” and nearly caused a culture war over “Hamilton.”
  • http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-hollywood-values-updates-how-will-gamergate-values-play-out-in-1483646871-htmlstory.html

• Opportunistic people learned to hijack the obsession of the online crowds. Many of the microcelebrities of the “alt-right” on the Internet built their brands during Gamergate. Mike Cernovich went from being relatively unknown to a voice for the alt-right. (Shortly after Welch showed up at Comet Ping Pong, Cernovich filmed a video of himself ranting about how the incident itself was fake — which was then clipped on a CNN segment about Pizzagate). Milo Yiannopoulos, despite having never played a video game in his life, glommed onto the Gamergate phenomenon and rode it out to his benefit, using his platform at Breitbart to write long rambling “exposés” of various Gamergate targets, regardless of whether they were public figures.
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/14/if-we-took-gamergate-harassment-seriously-pizzagate-might-never-have-happened/?nid&utm_term=.09d250ab761a

• One account of their rise to political significance cites the 2014 Gamergate controversy. This vicious internet culture war took place between those who were pressing for a more inclusive video gaming culture (more women, less violence) and those who reacted against what they saw as a humourless leftwing threat to their enjoyment of guns and boobs. These burgeoning alt right gamers have little in common with traditional Republican conservatives and their evangelical Christian values. They don’t go to church. Indeed, many are aggressively atheistic.
• Rather, they come together on blogs and online community forums like 4chan where they fulminate against social justice warriors – SJWs – who want to spoil their fun. They hate the liberal apparatus of the state, including the mainstream press and Ivy League academia that they collectively dub as The Cathedral. And they hate normies – normal people – and their repressive political philosophy, democracy. Instead of democracy, they propose that the US should be run like a large company with a CEO at its head, preferably one from Silicon Valley. Someone like PayPal founder Peter Thiel, whose views include : “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” But Trump will do for now. Oh, and only intelligent people should be in charge, and that means white people.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2016/aug/25/the-alt-right-is-old-racism-for-the-tech-savvy-generation

• It came out of subterranean message board sites like 4chan [now a popular breeding ground for alt-right content], which are almost designed to engineer and perpetuate online hoaxes. Sites like 4chan were trafficking in “fake news” before fake news was a thing. Eventually, my drama was given the name Gamergate to help it go viral and make it appear bigger than it was. The whole thing sort of steamrolled from there.
  • https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/9/19/16301682/gamergate-alt-right-zoe-quinn-crash-override-interview

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