A Look Back at #GamerGate.

<p>​<a href="https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCfYbb7nga6-icsFWWgS-kWw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;@Mister Metokur&nbsp;</a> , aka "Jim", is a content creator with a gift for exploring (and savagely mocking) niche internet subcultures.</p><p>In the summer of 2014, under the pseudonym "The Internet Aristocrat", Metokur posted a video called "Quinnspiracy Theory" that went viral and kicked off a strange and convoluted controversy that came to be known as #GamerGate. </p><p>Living at the nexus of popular entertainment, internet culture, journalistic ethics, and "Progressive" Identity Politics, the kerfuffle ended up becoming a national story, still referenced by journalists to this day (nearly a decade later), and served as a preview of the Culture Wars that seem so pervasive now.</p><p><br></p><p>FOLLOW METOKUR ON TWITTER:</p><p>https://www.twitter.com/QuarantinedCoof</p><p><br></p><p>HERE'S HIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL:</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/c/MisterMetokur</p><p><br></p><p>FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: </p><p>https://www.twitter.com/cliftonaduncan </p><p><br></p><p>SUBSCRIBE TO MY SUBSTACK: </p><p>https://cliftonduncan.substack.com </p><p><br></p><p>MY IMDB PAGE:</p><p>https://www.imdb.me/cliftonduncan</p><p><br></p><p>(MOST OF) MY THEATRICAL CREDITS:</p><p>https://www.abouttheartists.com/artists/265366-clifton-alphonzo-duncan</p><p><br></p><p>Intro/Outro: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/stJzyKNNgz/</p><p><br></p><p>SUPPORT THIS PODCAST BY BUYING SOME DELICIOUS COFFEE FROM OUR FIRST SPONSOR, TWIN ENGINE COFFEE:</p><p><br></p><p>https://www.twinenginecoffee.com/CliftonDuncan</p><p><br></p><p>TIME STAMPS:</p><p>0:01:45 -- Introductory Remarks.</p><p>0:04:23 -- Jim's Origin Story, and Olden Days of a Free Internet.</p><p>0:14:42 -- "Intersectional" Ideological Infiltration. </p><p>0:19:27 -- WTF was #GamerGate?</p><p>0:33:33 -- "Progressive" Authoritarian Hypocrites.</p><p>0:43:56 -- The Importance of Being Anonymous.</p><p>1:04:08 -- An Off-White Pill.</p>