dragonbeast: thing is, there are whole bunch of 'em
but what created the "gg is the devil" stuff? Its simple: gg was for ethics and against gender politics (which is: main char is a white man=>game is racist and sexist+there are female enemies? its a rape and abuse promotion).
a bunch of morons, which the internet has plenty, decided to fuck shit up and sent those death threats.
the criticized games media jumped on the occasion to generalize the entirety of GG as sexist semi-terrorists to scare the public so noone would listen to gg.
Sark and Wu played professional victim, earning them tons of dosh. They stated that the only reason they received threats was because they were women, even though everyone known by more than a million gets death threats eventually.
meanwhile the media continued the fear and hate mongering. Media and sark will keep more females out of gaming than gamers ever will.
This gave Sark the power to dismiss any and all criticism as harassment.
Even though people hate her male producer, Jonathan "full" mcintosh even far more.
Since then pro-gg have received more harassment and threats than anyone else.
problem here is that gg fights concepts (corruption and gander politic) while antigg fights people. And anyone daring to somewhat associate with anyone within gg is a devil, and should be
gassed.
Anything touched by gg
is corruped by the devil himself Brianna wu learned that one the very hard way
Except the name 'GamerGate' itself comes from the 'scandal' of all of those "'Gamer' as a self-identifier is dead" articles in the gaming press in RESPONSE to doxxing and harassment of prominent female figures in gaming - harassment is right there in the origin story
And if GG was against gender politics it would campaign for every character in every game to be amorphous, gender-less blobs - if you have genders you have gender politics, there's no getting away from it...