About
Oppressed GamerGater is an image macro featuring a screaming child in front of a blue and teal color wheel background. The overlaid text is orginally intended to mock gamergate community then turned into mocking the viewpoints and stances of the “anti-Gamergate” side of the controversy.
Origin
The advice animal character was born during the GamerGate controversy. On October 9, 2014, Twitter user Spacekatgal[4] posted image macro series Oppressed GamerGater to criticize the GamerGate community. Including the image series of a child from one of the PowerPoint template[3]. In counter, on the imageboard site 8chan, users started to create new image macros related to Oppressed GamerGater page on Meme Generator with messages that disagrees with the contra-gamergate community[1]. Many 8chan users also engaged in a high amount of Baneposting during the meme hijacking. Over 1,000 memes were created in a short time.
Notable Examples
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Search Interest
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External References
[1]Archive.Today – Oppressed GamerGater
[2]Memegenerator.net – Oppressed GamerGater Meme
[3]TemplatesForPowerpoint.com – Powerpoint Autism Symptoms
[4]Spacekatgal – Related Tweet
[5]Spacekatgal – Related Tweet