GamerGater

From GamerGate +‎ -er.

GamerGater (plural GamerGaters)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gamergater.
   • 2015, Vox Day [pseudonym; Theodore Robert Beale], “Counterattack”, in SJWs Always lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Kouvola, Kymenlaakso: Castalia House, →ISBN, page 91:

     Various concern trolls repeatedly explained why #GamerGate needed a leader and how #GamerGate would never accomplish anything or be respected without a leader, concerns that were generally blown off with multiple GamerGaters declaring that they were the leader of #GamerGate or denouncing the concern troll as a shill, which is GG parlance for an individual who is not to be trusted.

   • 2016, Chuck Eddy, “’10s”, in Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 244:

     Some of the outrage is no doubt deserved—I have no patience for bigots myself, and better Social Justice Warriors than GamerGaters scared of vaginas or psychopaths voicing vendettas against wives on The Sopranos and Breaking Bad.

   • 2021, Tracey Nicholls, “How to be a man: Prince Charming”, in Dismantling Rape Culture: The Peacebuilding Power of ‘Me Too’ (Interdisciplinary Research in Gender), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, chapter 2 (A beautiful girl met a handsome prince . . .: Toxic masculinity and complicit femininity), page 72:

     It [8chan] has also become, reports New York Times journalist Kevin Roose, ‘an online home’ for another collection of misogynists who are to sexual entitlement what the GamerGaters were to authority entitlement: a group who label themselves ‘incels’—involuntarily celibate.