Comicsgate
name, slang
name, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A right-wing campaign in opposition to diversity and progressivism in the North American superhero comic book industry. informal
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From comics + -gate.
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