It has been argued that Gamergate helped in the election of
Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency in 2016 along with other right wing movements.
[269][270][271][272][273] With Alyssa Rosenberg even calling Trump "The Gamergate of Republican politics" in an opinion article for the Washington Post in 2015.
[274] In a retrospective for
Slate in August 2019, Evan Urquhart wrote that Gamergate was still active on Reddit and that its members continue to harass journalists. However, Urquhart also commented that Gamergate had not stopped socially-conscious games journalism, efforts to increase diversity in games, or individuals like Quinn and Sarkeesian.
[275] For
Vox, Aja Romano stated that police, businesses, and social media platforms are still susceptible to Gamergate-like tactics and that they would have to change in order to keep victims safe.
[276] In the Aftermath of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol Brianna Wu said that "everything I tried to get the FBI to act on in the aftermath of GamerGate has now come true...We told people that if social media companies like Facebook and Reddit did not tighten their policies about these communities of organized hate, that we were going to see violent insurrection in the United States … We told people that these communities were organizing online for violence and extremism. That, unfortunately, has proven to be true.”[277]https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gamergate_controversy&oldid=1001218127#cite_note-280
