Hiddenxperia is a popular Halo youtuber and Gamecheat13 was part of the Halo Eldewrito team who stole Microsoft assets and tired to blackmail Microsoft at one point.
Add gatekeeping to that and you're spot on, although that might just come with the territory
Honestly, it isn't just gaming community. It is the society at large. Gamergate are basically same guys (or if not literally same, then the same type) as neo-nazis, white supremacist, alt-right, etc. As one can see, those guys are just getting more and more emboldened.
Yeah and save for r/KotakuInAction I honestly think it goes both ways. It's either "Grrr, those Gamers and Gamergaters!" or it is "Grrr, those toxic developers and journalists" like, we really just NEED there to sides and someone to be the bad ones.
Yea your right I often forget that gamergate was the prequel to the altright wave. I'm also with you on a larger issue rearing it's head soon (hell the after math of the AreanaNet might qualify as it).
Someone I follow on a twitter posts something which comes up on my feed and that makes me creepy?! That's a stretch.
The stranger in question, well both of them are both pretty big in the Halo community. One of which was threatening to leak stolen HW2 assets.
They are prominent Halo community members, it's not far fetched that the OP follows them because of this and seeing the tweets caused him to think on this and post the thread.
It's sickening to say the least, in addition what we see with the Star Wars fandom now is so toxic that it makes me afraid we will see similar fractures in videogame communities unless if attitudes begin to shift away from far right thinking.
