Comicsgate
English
Etymology
comics + -gate
Proper noun
Comicsgate
- (informal) A right-wing campaign in opposition to diversity and progressivism in the North American superhero comic book industry.
- Coordinate terms: Celebgate, Gamergate
- 2021, Lisa Nakamura; Hanah Stiverson; Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing, Routledge, →ISBN:
- 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.
Further reading
Comicsgate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia