Here is a brief video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipcWm4B3EU4 Basically, It started when small time game dev Zoe Quinn slept with a game journalist who gave her shitty game a good review. Her exboyfriend made it public. Normally a small news story, but when it got posted about at various sites like Reddit, all the mods starting deleting it and game news site were refusing to cover it.  That convinced people to dig deeper, which uncovered more unethical ties in the gaming industry and made the drama bigger. Eventually, the outcry was so big that game sites couldn't just ignore it, so they decided to call the people complaining evil misogynists. That went badly and some of the sites lost a lot of users and advertisers. Also, subreddits like /r/kotakuinaction spawned from this to keep a watch on gaming sites for unethical behavior. /v/kotakuinaction formed during the Voat migration.