gamergate

Speech parts

1. gamergate - Noun

2. Gamergate - Proper noun

Meaning

gamergate (plural gamergates)

(entomology) A worker insect that can become capable of reproducing when the queen has died.

Gamergate

English Wikipedia has an article on:Gamergate (harassment campaign)Wikipedia
A campaign that started in 2014 and happened primarily online, which centered around sexism and anti-progressivism in video game culture and took the form of a harassment campaign against women in the video game industry.

GamerGate

Alternative letter-case form of Gamergate

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Examples

[On the GamerGate Controversy]: Ethics in journalism is not what's happening, in any way. Anita Sarkeesian

Brianna Wu, a software engineer who was one of the targets of Gamergate and an expert in being harassed online, told me she “absolutely” has experienced the wrath of the MuskBros. Source: Internet

Did Gamergate get this Nintendo employee fired? Source: Internet

For instance, early on, Gamergate drew as much of its animus from a series of editorials declaring the “death of the gamer.” Source: Internet

In 2012, long before Gamergate was coined, anti-feminists targeted Sarkeesian for running a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund her then-new “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games” series. Source: Internet

She isn't the first woman who's been forced into hiding by aggrieved video game fans associated with Gamergate, the self-styled reform movement that's become difficult to ignore over the… Source: Internet

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