Comicsgate en · PROPN
Etymology
From comics + -gate.
Meanings
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(informal) A right-wing campaign in opposition to diversity and progressivism in the North American superhero comic book industry.
Gamergate, “the Fappening” (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.
2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing, Routledge, →ISBN: