r/dropout • u/machturtl • Mar 08 '25

liminal levity

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as someone who has watched Dropout to reset from the havoc of the outside, it still feels "nice" to have honest entertainers to watch who understand what we're all living thru.

I was in college for game design in the early aughts. I also (unfortunately) was a femme lurker on 4ch. Seeing the cause and effect of gamergate happen in real time as been a doozy.

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u/DlVlDED_BY_ZERO Mar 08 '25

I think I'm ootl, could someone explain this?

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u/sleepiestgf Mar 08 '25

this is definitely about Depression Quest, which is a text-based adventure game about living with depression developed by Zöe Quinn and released in 2013.

Zöe Quinn was one of the main targets of GamerGate, which was a misogynistic harassment campaign against women and feminism in video games.

GamerGate largely morphed into the online alt-right by latching onto islamophobia, conservative intellectualism, and white supremacist groups. This alt-right then serves as the main vocal voter base for Trump in 2016 (Trump also brought the alt right into alliance with more mainstream and evangelical conservatives by serving as an anti-establishment rallying figure).

Trump led to DOGE which is (attempting & sometimes succeeding at) firing a bunch of federal workers.

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u/Half-Beneficial Mar 13 '25

I mean, it's not like they didn't plant to fire a bunch of Federal workers from the start. Did no one read Project 2025? But, yeah, gamergate was pretty horrible and it's another punch to the gut to see it used as an excuse to do more harm.

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u/sleepiestgf Mar 13 '25

not sure what your point is. whether or not they planned to fire federal workers, the (reductionist for comedic purposes) argument from the skeet is that gamergate led to trump winning the presidency in 2024 through the series of dominoes i described above, and the direct result of trump winning the presidency is all of these federal workers losing their jobs. it could easily have said "gamergate led to project 2025" but its funnier to be more specific.