A Harassment Campaign Against Kallie Plagge Shows Us GamerGate Is Still Undefeated

Another episode of GamerGate unravels, courtesy of yet another disgruntled straight white man.

Kallie Plagge on the left, and Jeremy Hambly aka The Quartering on the right.

Gaming provocateurs have been somewhat of an interesting manifestation of gaming culture ever since the height of the GamerGate movement in 2014. Their videos tend to be characterized by a somewhat recognizable pattern of blame-assignment right on the thumbnail, and the content itself is just a bland regurgitation of many criticisms one could make about any video game and still make it sound contextually-appropriate when it is otherwise not. For those two reasons especially, and many more, I’ve been reticent to embrace provocateurs as an integral part of gaming culture, not because they don’t define many of its parameters, but because they’re a part the larger public doesn’t like to acknowledge exists at all. Console manufacturers, publishers, and developers alike would all prefer to pretend that provocateurs have absolutely no sway over the gaming public, but in the detail-heavy discourse around nerd culture as a whole and gaming in particular, provocateurs have a tendency of occupying a very toxic space-if not a tad unnecessary when journalists do so much better in comparison.