I sometimes wish comic and video game culture can go back to the way it was before the year 2013. In my opinion 2013 was year that everything changed forever and geek culture became the toxic mess it is today
2012 to me proved to be the last good year for comic and video game culture. It was the last time I could go on a forum without seeing this consist obsession with woman or people of color in comics, video games and movies.
The following year a youtube video series called
Tropes vs Women in Video Games started popping up online
I watched a few of them but never really payed the series that much attention.
I was huge gamer at the time and when that hate for the
Tropes vs Women in Video Games series started growing. It was the first time I had ever felt completely disconnected from the gaming community. They increasingly started hating the creator of those videos Anita Sarkeesian
No matter what forum I would go on Rape and death threats would pop up every time this woman's name was brought up. That was also the first time I remember seeing people post "SJW" to attack someone.
surprisingly enough google trends perfectly lines up with my Timeline
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=sjw
gamegate and comicsgate would happen not to long after that
today we are all still living with the consequences of those events And Captain marvel is the latest victim of the hatred that started all those years ago