Sites like Kotaku had a hand in redpilling me even if I missed out on gamer gate when it happened. I came in contact with it from being a regular on consumerist.com, a wanna be consumer digest that catered to a younger online crowd such as myself back then. Around that time it became associated with gawker media and articles from those sites were crossposted and I was exposed to gawker, Kotaku, jezebel, etc. those sites annoyed me so much and they just kept getting worse meanwhile I rebelled more and more against that message.
When another site I enjoyed cracked went full homosexual I completely checked out from the internet for almost a decade. It was the busiest and most productive time of my life between work and family and that's how I barely noticed gamer gate but I knew something was changing. Harambe's death was a milestone that started to draw me back in. I'm enjoying my reintegration to online culture but lament where we are but it's starting to feel like another big shift. And it's very exciting.
@dj i would not be surprised if others checked out for a while and are coming back. i hope the internet becomes culturally similar to pre-gamergate as a result
@dj i recall power jannying occurring on various one-off forums in the before times and having to forum hop and whatnot, but reddit definitely made it worse since it absorbed all those one-off forums. Almost nowhere to hop to these days, so you're stuck with whoever the king of shit mountain happens to be that month/year/decade
@binkle@dj The best part of living in melbourne during the period, is that if the janny of your little niche forum became a spastic, you could literally just go to his house. It was the style at the time to post your literal address like “Come at me bro I have a gun.”
Melbourne has a robust and cheap public transport network. So, naturally, you would get people going to powermod houses, shitting on their doorstep, pouring superglue into their doorlocks and writing the mod’s username on it so the little faggot had to explain it to his parents.
Or ‘hacking’ his facebook by putting his public email into this tool people had at the time and telling his uncles and shit ‘I’m going to kill myself and it’s Y’s fault.”
Smellburn had a whole world of Microforum Gay Ops I should get into explaining at some point.
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