The real problem is people don't realize that Anyone can call themself a gamer gate activist, or a feminist, or anonymouse, or al quada.. They don't need to have any kind of affiliation or share any views. and this happens online more than in person due to only having a virtual presence.
> They're not actual people concerned about video game journalism.
I agree with you! Pity that so many of them seem to keep saying that they are concerned with journalism, instead of just admitting what they are doing.
[1] https://storify.com/a_man_in_black/gamergate-and-harassment
[2] https://storify.com/a_man_in_black/gamergate-is-a-misogy
Perhaps you didn't hear about the time when someone created a new board on 8chan specifically to harass Brianna Wu, and the Leaders of Gamergate from the /gg/ board went and flooded the new board with nonsense until mods woke up and took care of the problem.
Or when they tracked twitter attacks on Anita Sarkeesian to a journalist in Brazil...
Seriously, the standards you are trying to hold GamerGate to are completely and utterly ridiculous.