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If they think this started in 2024 the author is wildly behind the curve...
Bannon got involved with WoW gold farming as a money making scheme 20 years ago, and he commented on how impressionable young kids in videogames are, and how they could be influenced in games to agree with conservatives.
Which led to GamerGate.
Like...
It's good they finally realized it's happening, but I doubt they have any insights since they still don't understand
They passively call out that it's been building for years, but give no real history. Seems to me like they were more trying to say how mainstream it's become. Gamer gate is important to how we got here, but not that widely known about, even when it happened. Everyone knows Joe Rogan.
Either way, larger news outlets like NBC reporting on this is a good thing, even if they are a little late to the party.
Why things happened is often more important than just knowing something happened.
Doubly so when we're talking about fighting fascism.
It's mainstream now with people in their 20s, because their entire life online, conservatives have been influencing them in minor ways to groom them.
We can't just copy the mainstream like Rogan and expect it to work, because the reason that works is decades of prep.
And we already have a decent amount of progressive streamers/podcasters/whatever. And progressive policy has that groundwork and its actual grassroots not AstroTurf.
But the party refuses to embrace it, even tho it already exists and people want it.
They want the passion and votes progressive policy gets them, but they don't want to actually follow thru.
The issue is "moderate" policy isn't something people get excited about, but the party won't drop "moderate" policy because their hooked on corpo donations.
I agree with what you are saying. I just thought of the article as more of an entry point. It's not aimed at you. You obviously know what the manoshpere is and have taken the time to learn more.
The article seems like a good starting point for those who don't know. Hopefully, the parents of preteens who have never heard of the manoshpere will pick this up, start learning what it is their kids have been listening to, and put a stop to it.