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You absolutely fucking love to see it, folksPermalink On twitter.com
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GamersRiseUp wasn't always a Nazi breeding ground. I followed it when it was about nothing more than editing Joker makup on random images and calling it "gamer". There was the occasional joke about how "Stacy and Veronica left me in high school to be with Chad", but it was satirePermalink On twitter.com
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By my flawed estimation, the Stacy/Chad/Veronica stuff is what first brought incel ideology into the forum. Around the same time, hating women as a "joke" became the central meme. Real gamers hate the Stacys and Veronicas, of coursePermalink On twitter.com
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Using irony to make fun of snowflake male gamers who hate women and can't get laid because of it gradually became indistinguishable from using irony to hide the fact that you actually want to kill womenPermalink On twitter.com
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The moderation team also became infiltrated with fascists, who consolidated power and banned anyone who politely reminded the community that the whole point of GamersRiseUp was satire and actual bigotry isn't okayPermalink On twitter.com
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At that point, hating women branched out into hating women and minorities "ironically", turning GamersRiseUp into a full-blown Nazi forumPermalink On twitter.com
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The subreddit was incredibly effective at disseminating propaganda. They focused on heavily misleading or false statistics around black and immigrant crime rates and trans suicide rates. More than anything though, the memes made fascism feel like a hip and edgy joke...On twitter.com
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...where the more you bought into it the cooler and edgier you werePermalink On twitter.com
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This is just my memory talking though. I'd like to do the research to turn this into a proper essay with a thesisPermalink On twitter.com