The Story of Gamergate
Once upon a time in August, sociopaths, sexists, narcissists, rape apologists, sadists, stalkers, holocaust deniers, misogynists, various other assorted scumbags and idiots lacking in empathy, got together and decided that women, feminists and progressive politics should get the fuck out of video games. They've been harassing, stalking, insulting, defaming, falsely accusing, doxxing, blackmailing, threatening and whatever else ever since. The End.
Actually it's about ethics in games journalism, they said, to get useful idiots onboard.
Although recently gaters seem to have forgotten about that and nowadays are instead more actually about protecting artistic freedom against censorship.
Reading this back to myself...surely I must be exaggerating? I'm not. That one time Brianna Wu's dog was dying, and they tweeted saying what a shitty person she was and made jokes about how if they were her dog they'd want to die too, and then after her dog died they said she probably poisoned it and sent her pictures of injured pets to her. When others called them out on what despicable shitbags they are, other gaters jumped in to say things like "false flag" and "prove it was Gamergate". Like they always do, to protect Gamergate's image. That's what Gamergate is. Fucking sad, infuriating and depressing. It'd be funny if it wasn't for that.
Any names I may have called total biscuit I'd be glad to repeat. He has monetized hate and supported GG so anyone catching feelings on his behalf has been fairly warned.
He was doing fairly well before Gamergate, I very much doubt his support is financially motivated. Although I'm sure he didn't mind having this loud mob by his side during the TGA's.
I believe him when he says he cares about ethics. And by focusing on that point he gets to criticize traditional games media, and show that he's better. He wants Gamergate to be about this and tries to logic everything else away, inevitably failing miserably on occasion.
Basically I think he's an egotistical, inconsiderate asshole. Which would be relatively fine if it wasn't for him having such influence, while endorsing a hate group, revising history to make Gamergate look like a heroic consumer movement by making a (bad) case for the good and denying, ignoring, excusing the bad.