#GamerGate: What People Want It To Mean vs. What It Actually Means

***Editors Note: This editorial is about the culture around #GamerGate and the effects it has on the rest of the video game world or the entertainment world at large. If you need a brief on what exactly #GamerGate is or how it began, I would suggest this column on vox.com as it does an outstanding job of giving a top down view of the whole situation. You may feel you need to read it before diving into the following column.*** I’ve spoken with one of my best friends on many occasions about the irony of my role on BlackNerdProblems.com. Outside of editor duties, I write plenty of editorials (such as this one), comic reviews and TV recaps mostly. For a myriad of uninteresting reasons, I rarely write about video games on the site because currently my contribution is needed in other areas. This is ironic because video games are actually my real wheelhouse. I’m a hardcore gamer, a hardcore PC gamer even (yes, Ian Khadan and I both belong to that dark brotherhood of specs, source engines and frame rates) that typically plays everything on almost every major system. I have had opinions on the evolution and sometimes devolution of gaming, trends and tropes for a couple of decades now. I have an idea in my head about what can be happening in gaming and what should be happening in gaming just as much as any other dude on the internet and now I have a platform to voice those. And still, I can’t fully understand the strenuous defense of #GamerGate. Most of us, even the really well informe…