Friendly link to Anita Sarkeesian's YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/feministfrequency
For anyone who wasn't old enough to be chronically online at the time, she made an incredible video series on misogyny in video games.
It's called "Tropes Vs Women in Video Games" and it still is great today. Here's the first one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q
The backlash was swift and severe. For myself and a lot of other non-cis-straight-dudes online, it was a rude awakening at just how violently sexist online communities where. Brigading feminist or women's subs became common, and the incel movement really fed on it.
Having lived through Gamergate, and never actually having watched the original videos, I was floored when I watched them recently and they seemed so utterly reasonable and non inflammatory lmao. It’s so hard to believe the backlash got as big as it did. Hbomberguy’s early videos provide some good context on the sheer quality of person involved in “leading” the backlash, too.
The series is very good and simply analysis. There is nothing radical about it unless you think women and girls simply shouldn’t be represented at all or in public.
InnuendoStudios on YT also made a phantastic playlist about this