Copy-pasted from my old posts about GamerGate.

Summary of GamerGate

[Wiki]

GamerGate…

• is a consumer revolt.
• has a lot of supporters behind it, outnumbering it’s opponents. (Twitter, is an example.)
  
• wants journalists to be held accountable for shit they do.
• wants websites and journalists to have and enforce ethics policies.
• really does not like authoritarian left-wing extremists (Radical Feminists.)
• wants developers to be able to make whatever they want without their jobs being put at risk because of corrupt journalists slandering them.
• is against censorship and self-censorship.
• controversy has caused harm on both sides.
  
• is painted as villains with little to no evidence to support allegations.
• never really cared about feminists until feminists attacked GamerGate.
• uses information dug from the depths of the internet to use against it’s enemies.
• uses it’s massive numbers to send e-mails to advertisers, informing them of the corruption and horrible behavior of the sites they put their ads on. Usually ends with advertisers pulling ads off websites.

A year ago, GamerGate started as a consumer revolt against unethical journalism. Basically, people really didn’t like it when Game Developers gets positive coverage just because they’re friends with Journalists. People didn’t like it when people were getting special treatment through nepotism. Journalists getting paid to give positive reviews also was another big thing people hated.

It’s a long and dreary chain of events. Feminism wasn’t even in the picture until Journalists decided to make up a fake narrative, saying “Gamers are dead! Gamers are sexist” and so-on and so forth. GamerGate became the “boogey man” of Feminists. Ever since Feminists crossed paths with GamerGate, both   sides were at odds even if they’re playing two different games on two different fields. Gamers really didn’t like it when their hobby was getting unjustly slandered by people they consider as “outsiders”. So that’s how Feminists got involved.

In short. GamerGate is about Journalistic Ethics, Defending the Games Industry against radical politics-driven idealogues and protecting Freedom of Expression.

We have a Wiki.

https://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=GamerGate

We also have a website that catalogues every unethical journalist and outlet with evidences of their misdeeds.

http://deepfreeze.it/

There’s multiple GamerGate community hubs. One is in Reddit’s KotakuInAction. Another is in 8chan (in /gamergatehq/ and /v/). If you consider yourself “left-wing”, it’s best to stick to KotakuInAction. 8chan is.. Well. People use a lot of slurs that people don’t usually say in polite company.