Andrew Keen's new book, ready player one, is about Star Wars fan culture and gatekeeping. He says gamer gate started with people who are fans of a thing becoming defensive of their thing when it is challenged by other audiences. "It kind of this idea of a purity of fan base had metastasized into a thing that was malignant"

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