It’s like, at first, it was relatively apolitical except maybe the New Atheists who got popular by criticizing the mostly right-wing religious nutjobs.
But then, I think around the mid-2010s, it started to get super political. Suddenly, everybody started to talk about how the evil wacky feminazi SJWs were trying to destroy gaming and our culture?
At this point, it seems like many people have snapped out of it and are making fun of these “anti-woke” crazies, but what materially caused this phenomenon to happen in the first place and why does it still persist to an extent?
TL;DR: Siege mentality
It’s a violent (over)reaction to 2013-2016 SJW culture. Now hating women and minorities makes you “based” and not a weirdo.
Enough people got online to ask the original nerds to stop calling women femoids and rather than adapt they reflexively doubled down.
Rinse and repeat for 10 years.
Nerd culture was targeted by companies seeking a profit from that market.
It also became way less underground and way more pop as a result.
This allowed a lot more libs in, killing any potential left approach
