• Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    24 days ago

    I was thinking about how while it’s nothing new that reactionary groups attempt to co-opt youth subcultures, this one is maybe their most successful attempt of all time in terms of both per capita conversion and raw numbers.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      24 days ago

      Yeah, it’s not a new thing at all, but freeze-gamer gate was remarkably and lastingly successful compared to duds like, say, “Metalgate” that tried to ride its coattails but was such a failure that only fucking Green Day could be found to say that SJWs were ruining metal.

      I don’t need to tell you that Green Day is not metal and never was and fuck them anyway.