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Think of the things that gaming culture is most recognized for–it might be a game like Fortnite, a convention like E3 or Gamescom, a platform like PlayStation or Xbox, but very few would reference the culture itself. It’s of little surprise then that Gamergate claims a significant portion of that pie–the movement metastasized a once-dormant sense of discontent with women and minorities in a medium that traditionally catered to straight white men, and in its wake, completely upended the parameters of culture war, as it forever changed the face of online discourse.
Marijam Didžgalvytė understands that better than most. She’s been involved in the conversation through an independent editorial effort on the Twitter-hosted series Left Left Up, which seeks to analyze what ails the modern gaming industry from a class-conscious lens, devoid of all the baggage that a focus on liberal solutions for capitalism-sprung problems entails.
Political ideology is something that games journalism puzzlingly shies away from–it custodes the brunt of the criticism they’ve been getting, and yet it’s something they’re reticent to embrace. I asked Marijam what motivated her to assume the profile that she has, and the answer was…
