It’s a part of our understanding of how internet culture exists, how communities form and what they form around.” “I think Gamergate is an incredibly notable thing on its own. “The strategies that they used to attack us got integrated into a political campaign and have become a kind of baseline for how online attacks happen,” she says. The episode was challenging for Sarkeesian, but also proves her point about history repeating itself. There’s even one on another famous “-gate”-Nipplegate, when Janet Jackson’s breast was temporarily exposed during a Super Bowl halftime performance. There’s an episode dedicated to the Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) getting canceled, one on racial politics and the impact of Star Trek on Black public figures. Much of That Time When, which is currently running on streaming service Nebula, focuses on the past few decades, but one episode goes back to the early 1900s and the movies of filmmaker Lois Weber. That Time When, like Tropes-like all of her work-aims to make those connections. “Moments when pop culture and politics collide are about regressive, puritanical control over women’s bodies, over culture, over challenges to the status quo or perceived progressive shifts,” Sarkeesian says. But there has also been fallout, like when Obi-Wan Kenobi star Moses Ingram started receiving racist messages on social media following the show’s launch, or when Kiki Farms users organized stalking campaigns. People now understand media representation better than they did before. Hollywood, video games, TV-lots of industries have evolved in the past decade.
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