Ahh, rhe lazy days o summer. Where I live, it’s Monsoon Season, when we receive most of our yearly precipitation. It’s amost like clockwork: Clouds build up the early part of the day, culminating in what can be some violent Thunderstorms beginning around 3 pm, lasting for an hour, or two. Repeat the next day. Usually. Another summer event, which has nothing to do with weather ot an dramatic event, is the lack of views I receive. A few years ago, I discovered what I thought was some kind of anomaly in viewership. At that time, another blogger told me it was because it was summer and thar I would probably see an uptick to “norma” sometime in August. He was right.

Before that, I rarely followed any of this blogs statistics.I take a look occasionally., but I don’t want to become too focused on “views”, daily, I’m more interested in which posts are being read, or at least clicked. You might think the latest posrs would be receivinG the highest number of views. Me too. And we’d both be wrong.

The chosen post is from June 17. No, not this year, but in 2015.. Is Gaming Journalism Still Necessary?is the title and returns a flood of thought, and yes emotion, that went on during what was known (Thanks Adan Baldwin) as Gamergate.

In case you weren’t around online, or just didn’t care at the time, Gamergate was a verbal war going on between actve gamers, and gaming journalists, as well as the obligatory whiners and con artists. This was a war begun against male gamers – accusing those same of sexism and misogyny toward female gamers and developers. All sorts of nonsensical accusations were made against gamers 9male) to the ultimate accusatory: A Law and Order: SVU episode where some super female gamer is kidnapped by a group of gorillas. I mean male gamers. To say the media, even Hollywood, fell for such a hoax was unbelievable to me. All they’d have to do is interview both male and female gamers. Regular people. It was too easy, however to parrot the popular view though and therefore, gamers (male) took it in the gonads.

You can tell which side I took and going back to that post raised the same question, in a way. Are any of those sites still up and popular with gamers? Do gamers take the recommendations of these “professional” journalists 9not gamers) anymore than they did a decade ago? I don’t know and I am not interested in doing the two minutes of research for this blog thar ir would probably take.

I wonder who that was, looking at that post frm so long ago and what sparked that person to search for Gamergate posts. I did write quite a few back then but it’s always a surprise to see something dredged up from what could be called the ancient past.