Unlike the rest of GamerGate, I’m happy to admit I’m a pretty conservative guy. And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t recognise the potential of GamerGate to give the left a bloody nose when in August 2014 I was approached by Allum Bokhari, now my colleague at Breitbart, with the story.

But I quickly realised this wasn’t a left-right thing at all. It’s more about nannying pearl-clutchers with bully pulpits in the media versus decent, ordinary people who just want to be left alone. Authoritarianism versus libertarianism, if you like. And the extraordinary lengths authoritarians will sometimes go to in order to impose their will on others – even about something as apparently trivial as the humble video game.

GamerGate is wrongly called a conservative movement simply because the only journalists willing to cover it fairly, or to give the movement time of day, were classical liberals, for whom there is really no home in the modern progressive left. That was another realisation that stung GamerGate supporters, who even now think of themselves as reflexively left-wing, despite what the liberal media has done to them.