We spent literally decades actively encouraging the worst kinds of toxic masculinity in gaming culture, while actively neglecting and even decrying any attempt to moderate gaming spaces.
I firmly believe you can draw a direct throughline from "Sega Does What Nintendon't" to "John Romero's About to Make You His Bitch" to E3 "booth babes" to Xbox Live to G4 ... all the way to Gamergate.
Gamer™ culture is the way it is because it was actively built that way. If the purpose of a system is what it does, then the purpose of Gamer™ culture was to breed a generation of self-victimizing regressive fascists, and in a sense they are right to recognize that a shift is happening, because it is.
Capital backed themselves into a corner and now as the market has expanded in spite of decades of willful neglect, the Gamergate set are lashing out at the realization that capital never cared about them, not when there is money to be made.
At the same time, they've already set the trap for the rest of us, to ensure all that pent-up white male rage disproportionately targets everyone not white, male, and cis, while the real fucking criminals in this industry get fat fucking bonuses and walk off into the sunset with most people never even knowing their fucking names.
