A Look Back at #GamerGate.

​ @Mister Metokur  , aka "Jim", is a content creator with a gift for exploring (and savagely mocking) niche internet subcultures.

In the summer of 2014, under the pseudonym "The Internet Aristocrat", Metokur posted a video called "Quinnspiracy Theory" that went viral and kicked off a strange and convoluted controversy that came to be known as #GamerGate.

Living at the nexus of popular entertainment, internet culture, journalistic ethics, and "Progressive" Identity Politics, the kerfuffle ended up becoming a national story, still referenced by journalists to this day (nearly a decade later), and served as a preview of the Culture Wars that seem so pervasive now.

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TIME STAMPS:

0:01:45 -- Introductory Remarks.

0:04:23 -- Jim's Origin Story, and Olden Days of a Free Internet.

0:14:42 -- "Intersectional" Ideological Infiltration.

0:19:27 -- WTF was #GamerGate?

0:33:33 -- "Progressive" Authoritarian Hypocrites.

0:43:56 -- The Importance of Being Anonymous.

1:04:08 -- An Off-White Pill.