4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump:

This is the best article I’ve seen yet about 4chan and its relationship to misogyny and Gamergate, while still highlighting the complex issues around the community it provides and not forgetting that the people in it are hurting and need an outlet. (I could’ve been one of those people too, if I was born ten years later.) The connection to Trump is a little weaker than the other blistering commentary in the essay, but i think it’s still entirely valid.

“Yiannopoulos rose to prominence via Gamergate. He is not a “technology” editor because he compares the chip architectures of competing graphics cards. Rather the “tech” here is code for the fact that his audience is the vast population of sad young men who have retreated to internet communities. Likewise the mainstream press sometimes describes him as troll as a way of capturing his vague association with 4chan. This term, too, is inaccurate. He is 4chan at its most earnest, after all these men have finally discovered their issue — the thing that unites them — their failure and powerlessness literally embodied (to them) by women.”