Gamergate pioneered tactics later used broadly by right-wing internet politics

Evidence

In hindsight, Gamergate provided a blueprint for the right’s use of internet-driven harassment, memes, and disinformation as tools for inflicting psychological and social damage on their perceived enemies. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 445

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fits his mechanism chapter — was Gamergate a status competition over who could claim the gamer subculture, or purely instrumental harassment? Useful for the counter-case on misidentified signature.