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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026

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GamerGate was a failure for the Right because it did not promote any of their aims and norms in the video game industry, but only further cemented the progressive stranglehold on video game culture. Look at modern WoW. The Progressive side successfully narrated the event within the industry and increased the number of LGBT / women / trans and their influence by some percent afterward. It’s an interesting event in any case as it shows the way that Progressive power functionally works — in a gender inclusive space filled with autistic men, attractive women wield enormous social power and can essentially act as petty tyrants, and this is amplified by advocacy networks and sympathetic media which side with them above all. It’s also interesting in that it showed the influence of anonymous organization online a la 4chan, which would later throw their weight behind Trump.

Gamergate did not involve "the right". There might have been a minority of gamers with right-of-center political views, but this was always an inter-left fight, with some of the defeated later drifting right having found some safe harbor there/having grown a decade older.

with some of the defeated later drifting right having found some safe harbor there

This is known as "having been thrown into the pit".

GamerGate was a failure for the Right because it did not promote any of their aims and norms in the video game industry, but only further cemented the progressive stranglehold on video game culture. Look at modern WoW.

That stranglehold seems to have strangled the industry to death. I'm sure the husk of Blizzard that was left after the sexual harassment catastrophe has filled its eternal legacy MMO with all kinds of woke shit, but out there in the world the industry is seeing devastating layoffs as unwanted games full of snowflake characters metaphorically pile up in trash bins. Like say Dragon Age. They successfully murdered a series, but they sure didn't get anyone to like it.

Yeah, I'm inclined to believe that the progressive victory was going to happen anyway because it did everywhere else. If anything Gamergate is just sort of the backlash from people who sense something is moving but can't really stop it.

"Go woke, go broke" is probably overrated but gaming seems to be one of the places where it regularly happens, for the same reasons it happens at the top end of the film industry.

Progressive stranglehold on video game culture or video games themselves?

I should say the culture expressed in video games.

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