Lowtax started Something Awful to host his “in character as Cranky Steve” mean reviews of bad Quake 2 custom maps, Moot created 4chan because he didn’t like the moderation of the anime subfourm on Something Awful, the smear article about Zoe Quinn making it to 4chan started gamergate, and I think everyone here is terminally online enough to take it from there.
Lowtax started Something Awful to host his “in character as Cranky Steve” mean reviews of bad Quake 2 custom maps, Moot created 4chan because he didn’t like the moderation of the anime subfourm on Something Awful, the smear article about Zoe Quinn making it to 4chan started gamergate, and I think everyone here is terminally online enough to take it from there.