this doesnt change anything but i want to point out i was using "gamergate era" more to refer to the 2014-ish feminist argument landscape in general, not gamergate specifically
😅 I don't have a mental reference point for this either... I didn't really use social media until a year into covid when I got lonely
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Tweet · Oct 31, 2025i only logged on to social media a year into the pandemic when i got bored with promoting yimby on a local news forum. within the first few weeks i…Reply · Mar 5, 2026@finiteopencover welllll i think it has been ever since covid pandemic closures moved so much of life online and i joined social mediaReply · Jul 18, 2026@MichaelAlleged oh i meant like "asked on social media" like reddit or whateverReply · May 30, 2021@NateSilver538 "after years of arguing with people on the Internet" ... 🤦