Moved to the existing GamerGate topic from here: The Lottery at XOXO 2014
Glenn can likely answer that, and I haven’t been following it closely. That said, near the outset, GamerGate was a big-tent thing whose participants saw it as a culmination of longstanding ire at enthusiast-press sleazery such as junkets and advertiser influence. When the “4chan” stuff was exposed, though, it made it look like the whole thing had been promoted to cover (and justify) attacks upon feminists in gaming, and to scapegoat them for the soft-corruption allegedly widespread in the biz. So while I don’t doubt that the volume of hashtag use has remained high, it became less a nascent scandal and more a partisan rallying cry among people who are comfortable with that association.
