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.
