I’m writing some critical notes on a socdem book (Taplin’s MFBT), and at one point it mentions GamerGate while exploring the rise of the internet fascists.

Now, I know what GamerGate was, I even watched a lot of it as it unfolded, but I can’t find a way to properly characterise it. It doesn’t help that, with some hindsight I can see both how a lot of the “leaders” of the movement became barely relevant but a lot of their tactics were adopted or further developed by the more mainstream fascists. Besides that the whole structure of it looks very fishy considering all the known astroturfing strategies used nowadays.

A lot of the resources I’ve read on it is the typical lib idealist mass psychoanalysis (Innuendo Studios comes to mind), so I was wondering if y’all had some more critical resources about that.