gamergater
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person involved in the Gamergate harassment campaign.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Gamergater.
Example Sentences
- "He credits GamerGaters with organizing a revolt against a deeply unsatisfying marketplace by loyal consumers who deserve better."
- "Gamergaters have hurt people, and they've driven people out of games."
- ""But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and 'woke' dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female 'Ghostbusters' and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay.""
- "Harassment campaigns using the hashtag #GamerGate claimed, in part, to be a response to ethical shortcomings in games journalism; many Gamergaters criticized what they call “social justice warriors” in the gaming industry […]"
- "On Twitter, for instance, Gamergaters flooded the mentions of particular users as a form of harassment."
- "Various concern trolls repeatedly explained why #GamerGate needed a leader and how #GamerGate would never accomplish anything or be respected without a leader, concerns that were generally blown off with multiple GamerGaters declaring that they were the leader of #GamerGate or denouncing the concern troll as a shill, which is GG parlance for an individual who is not to be trusted."
Etymology
From Gamergate + -er.