How many of these communities have you been personally involved with? Poll in the next tweethttps://twitter.com/Tipsycaek/status/1316123134408364032 …
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So, yeah, you're going to get a bunch of people who are smart but also hang out on the darker parts of the internet. (Side note: I'm a "zero" voter, but my impression is 4chan is a more complicated place than people give credit for and PUA less uniformly bad than it's painted)
IIRC there's also some complicated history where the original gamergate guy (I forget his name) was friends with a bunch of people in the community, but I don't really know the story there I just have vague memories of there being something of that shape.
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None of which is to suggest that those places don't deserve their reputations. I'm pretty sure they do. But I wouldn't necessarily conclude that because someone was a part of them in some sense that made them personally bad. Especially if it was when they were a lot younger.
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Trying to follow up on my memory of the gamergate link lead me to https://arcdigital.media/almost-everything-you-know-about-gamergate-is-wrong-c4a50a3515fb … which is interesting. (I don't necessarily endorse the claims of this article - some of it tracks the ways in which I was vaguely aware shit was complicated but I don't know about the rest)
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