Gamergate was the canary in the coal mine for the current digital kulturkampf.

http://vice.com/en_ca/article/qvwv9d/2017-was-the-year-you-could-not-log-off

GAMERGATE CAUSED OPIATES WHICH CAUSED DRUMPF, AND ALSO CAUSED ROTHERHAM WHICH CAUSED THE BREXERT

(via slartibartfastibast)

Have you seen Nick Denton’s twitter lately? It’s straight him and his peers going “Oh God we created a monster with the Internet, Shut It Down”

Meanwhile, the, ah, Shitpostant Reformation has its head down, shoulder to the wheel for global ethnogenesis to the point they’re creating an honest-to-gods pantheon out of pop culture detrius