Did #GamerGate Influence the 2016 Elections?

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Usually, I avoid talking about anything not video game related on TGGD, in fact everything on TGGD is video game related in some sense. As I looked farther in on this subject, I found that the elections did have gamers influencing election results, so I couldn’t avoid writing an article about this even if I wanted to. According to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the average age  of a gamer is 35, which means many of us are of voting age. Of that, 155 million Americans play video games, so take into account of the average age, and you can make a definitive statement that gamers do affect US elections.

With that said, did #GamerGate actually influence the 2016 elections? Well… it’s more complicated than you think, and we will need to go back to 2005 to really understand what happened. You see, back in 2005 Rock Star Games, with their…

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