Let’s not forget that Russia was playing both sides. As soon as GamerGate started, a bunch of games “journalists” all posted garbage articles like this, in the same day, pushing this shitty “gamers are now dead” message, fanning the flames even further and basically just pissing everybody off.

Sorry, I’m a gamer. I’m still alive, even ten years later. Gamers ain’t dead.

And then CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and the rest all ran with it to treat it like a horse race, which is exactly what the Russian experiment was trying to achieve.

Articles like this sound a lot like that garbage back then.