When Alison Rapp was fired, it gave an opportunity to former footballer, and washed up bum, turned writer, Chris Kluwe (or "Kluweless" as he is nicknamed) to find a way to get involved and shove his views across by tweeting aggressively -- namely at Nintendo about how he was no longer going to buy their products and that he would send that message to his "190k followers on Twitter." Kluwe has been quite an antagonistic presence on both Twitter and in interviews. His more recent appearances on the David Pakman show were a showcase of not only how rude he could be -- especially when in a debate -- but also how he looked like he had just fallen out of bed moments before the broadcasts. More recently he appeared on the Outkick The Show with Clay Travis and he did not come across very well. In the video footage of the interview the bile that he ended up spewing caused Travis to do one of the most hilarious double takes ever seen: quickly losing his cool with his guest. It was moments like that that showed Kluwe was not as clever as he thinks he is, and clearly needed to find something better to do with his time as opposed to antagonizing people online so much.

One of the more successful trolls that has managed to stay latched onto this whole thing like a parasite has been Randi Harper and this is evident in her Patreon account. It is one of the only accounts not to suffer a drop in intake unlike Zoe Quinn's and Brianna Wu's, still managing to pull in almost $5k a month from people who clearly have money to throw away. Harper claims to have left a long career in the tech industry to go full time with the GamerGate Auto Blocker. However, there are strong claims from those on the Internet (although unconfirmed) that she was in fact fired for being a bad employee, and she has made herself unemployable due to her stance on certain subjects, not to mention her hostile attitude -- especially towards men. Veteran software developer Roberto Rosario, academic Vivek Wadhwa and data scientist Chris Von Csefalvay have told stories about how she has gone after them publicly for views that she didn't like, but it certainly did not mean that women were safe either. A lady named Claire Schumann was driven off of Twitter and the previously mentioned Ginny Higerd told her story of her encounter with Harper on her Tumblr account, and a nasty encounter it is. The fact that Harper claims she is against online bullying is purely laughable at this point, and large amounts of her followers are very much guilty of it too. Even though there are plenty of stories and evidence against her -- especially a very colourful profile on Encyclopedia Dramatica -- the fact that that she is still able to pull in that sort of money on a monthly basis via Patreon is almost admirable.

Even people like Graham Linehan and Bernard Keane somehow found a way to get themselves involved in the events and fiascos that have happened, even though there was no apparent reason for them to do so. Seemingly doing so purely because he has nothing better to do with his time, Linehan is quite a nasty individual on Twitter and regularly throws insults and nasty comments at people. Those who dare to fight back are blocked instantly, except when he feels like he can belittle them somehow as one Dan Sidnell found out. During an exchange with Linehan on Twitter, the writer thought it best to score a point off of the young student by tweeting a picture of him and his mother after he lifted it from his personal Facebook profile. Sidnell, along with others who witnessed this, was disturbed. Although Linehan was reported to Twitter for it, he was not penalized and continues to speak to people how he pleases with no apparent consequence. Keane decided to test the waters by tweeting "Why do gamergaters despise women and gays so much? Threatened much?" When men and women, both straight and gay, dared to argue back at him he chose to block in cowardice instead of engage with them. There was no real reason for him to say such a thing on Twitter other than to provoke people, and sadly it worked. Keane came off as nothing more than a troll, and a pathetic one at that.