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What caused internet/nerd culture to go full-on fascist?
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Nerd culture was always fairly reactionary, all things considered. The "girls don't play video games" trope was so overplayed in the mid 00's even Ctrl+Alt+Del was able to subvert it by having a gamer gf and B^U is not a creative person by any stretch of the word.
Although it did get worse when reactionaries realised they could make money by criticizing otherwise non-issues. If San Andreas came out today the right wing youtubers would lose their minds that the protagonist is black, the main antagonist is a cop and the secondary antagonist is a CIA agent and the supporting cast includes a female Latina, a weed smoking hippy and a disabled Chinese American. Gamergate's consequences hasn't exactly fallen away.
Interesting thing about that one is that C.R.A.S.H. is actually barely abstracted away from a real portion of the LAPD involved in a real scandal.
Reminder that Dungeons and Dragons creator E. Gary Gygax justified lawful good characters killing the babies of races listed as evil by quoting
CW: genocide
an American colonizer giving his reason for pursuing the total extermination of American Indians.