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   Ericka Simone (erickasimone@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 11:11:03 JST Ericka Simone

   Me, after reading a superviral post on tikkitytoks that connects the overwhelming shift towards misogyny and red pill content flooding the internet in the last few years directly to the mishandling and drama of #Gamergate, with some tying the fallout from Gamergate directly to the results *of the American election and young white males sliding into nazism:

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     Ericka Simone (erickasimone@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 11:11:18 JST Ericka Simone

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     Me realizing the dismantling of #netneutrality, #twitter safety, #facebook moderation, coming of #CambridgeAnalytica and the #Gamergate situation all happened around the same time (2011 - 2015), directly driving the downslide into racism and misogyny on the internet, while realizing the first levels of #deadinternettheory started appearing immediately after:

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     Ericka Simone (erickasimone@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 11:12:55 JST Ericka Simone

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     Nah bro… they’re really right and I cannot belieeeeeve it took me this long to put all of this together. I was hyperaware of the fallout from net neutrality being dismantled and stormfront/4chan going unregulated. But this is just…. OMG.