I have said it once, I will say it again, GamerGate was the biggest blessing and the biggest consumer revolt consumers had against their "overlords".
GamerGate is tainted with political advocacy as well, but for the right. It's loaded with a heavy baggage of internet wars of insults and doxxing, and a perverse thirst for developers not in a position of power to roll down and go out in a blaze of flames to show those SJWs instead of looking for their livelihoods.
It's just like that recent demographic phenomenon already noticed by governments and media and even the common public: there's an increasing amount of men who renounce pursuing marriage or relationships in particularly high-stakes environments. It's a valid personal choice, but also a problematic one in the view of many that needs to go and become shamed. To make it go away, this crowd was associated with nerds, then NEETs, then whatever MGTOW is, then incels.
Incels, an actual group of sociopaths that would fantasize about rape and murder. Suddenly, it becomes less socially acceptable to explicitly adopt that opinion (don't feel like marrying) because of the association with incels. Let's not miss the amusing implication that society is now overrun with incels, that fuel into a moral panic and an imperative to whip them into submission and root them out, with force if need be.
The "Gamergate" label is to normal apolitical gamers not on board with this SJW advocacy, what "incel" is when abused to describe what used to be called "celibacy".
Gaming journalism has found in GamerGate the ideal accusation to lump anyone who has beef with their positions with.
Just take complaining about bad localizations for example, they made it politicized as such, in order for their position to be now sacred. Even nerds on the SJW side who are dismayed with the current state of translations are silenced and voluntarily get in line because it's "too soon" to discuss that issue "until attacking it is no longer agreeing with the opposition", and that often includes "waiting for that opposition to die to start that conversation", which will never happen of course because opposite opinions will always exist in a non-gulag society, and even if they no longer did you speaking out about that will get your ass thrown with the opposition remnants as well.
Or what about Cuphead? It's no longer about the sheer incompetence, and outright malice (the original video title called the game a shitty impossible game, and then got changed to a "playful" one when the meme factor got too big to ignore) in game reviews, or that games can be not for everyone (in this case, a challenging game that might not be accessible for everyone but that doesn't deny it the right to exist, otherwise a future of Wii-era Nintendo games with god modes enabled by default awaits us). It became suddenly about the alt-right hate mob hating on game journalists and being ungrateful entitled pricks.
It's a lost cause to rely on GamerGate to expose the game press worst excesses either. You would be let down.
They're concerned about waging their own political wars first and foremost.
Speak out about those excesses yourself without having to bear that political burden of other people you don't even know or have anything to do with what you're talking about, nor do they care about it. Otherwise, the conversation inevitably derails to be about the left-right political war, which isn't unlike what SJWs aim for ultimately - everything is about politics, the personal is political...
