Gamergate

A controversy that started in 2014, and happened primarily online, around issues of sexism and progressivism in video game culture and harassment of women in the video game industry.

Proper noun

  1. A controversy that started in 2014, and happened primarily online, around issues of sexism and progressivism in video game culture and harassment of women in the video game industry.
    • Those who experienced the harassment firsthand warned that if not taken seriously, the behaviors underlying Gamergate would fester. - 2025 March 23, Harmeet Kaur, “How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the...

Origin

From gamer + -gate.

Forms

GamerGate

Derived

Gamergater