[FiveOhThree]

That Kotaku piece was a full year after GamerGate, if anything people might question whether it'd have happened if GamerGate hasn't drawn attention to these problems.

[acdha]

GamerGate was still going strong in 2015, and did absolutely nothing to help stories like that. The people attacking journalists don’t get to take credit for their targets’ work.

[FiveOhThree]

I'm sure that the journalists involved would never admit that people putting a spotlight on their bad behaviour made them clean up their act.