Meaning of Gamergater | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person involved in the Gamergate harassment campaign.
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2. Alternative letter-case form of Gamergater.
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Examples

“He credits GamerGaters with organizing a revolt against a deeply unsatisfying marketplace by loyal consumers who deserve better.”

“Gamergaters have hurt people, and they've driven people out of games.”

“"But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and 'woke' dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female 'Ghostbusters' and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay."”

“Harassment campaigns using the hashtag #GamerGate claimed, in part, to be a response to ethical shortcomings in games journalism; many Gamergaters criticized what they call “social justice warriors” in the gaming industry […]”

“On Twitter, for instance, Gamergaters flooded the mentions of particular users as a form of harassment.”

“Various concern trolls repeatedly explained why #GamerGate needed a leader and how #GamerGate would never accomplish anything or be respected without a leader, concerns that were generally blown off with multiple GamerGaters declaring that they were the leader of #GamerGate or denouncing the concern troll as a shill, which is GG parlance for an individual who is not to be trusted.”

“Some of the outrage is no doubt deserved—I have no patience for bigots myself, and better Social Justice Warriors than GamerGaters scared of vaginas or psychopaths voicing vendettas against wives on The Sopranos and Breaking Bad.”

“It [8chan] has also become, reports New York Times journalist Kevin Roose, ‘an online home’ for another collection of misogynists who are to sexual entitlement what the GamerGaters were to authority entitlement: a group who label themselves ‘incels’—involuntarily celibate.”

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