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Before then, the white supremacists lived largely on their own websites like Stormfront. When they saw the vicious efficacy of 4Chan and 8Chan, they left their world for the wider Internet. It was a short jump from Gamergate to white supremacist /pol/.
As @UnburntWitch said in (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in the Age of Trump, “The whole message of Gamergate was, ‘Fuck these SJWs trying to tell us what to do.’ That jumped to Storm Front, where they were saying, ‘hey, we should talk to these people, they believe what we do.’”
“Because it was so big and visible, it was like a signal flare to a lot of different hate groups,” she said of Gamergate. Within “three weeks tops,” the nerds and gamers had been joined by the proto-storm troopers of the Alt Right in a bond that has never been broken.
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