Gamergate was telling for me. It was a bunch of what we call SJWs, who had spent thousands of dollars worth of their own money on being indoctrinated into believing utter crap about the society around them, who were then meeting pushback on their preachings. These were people who had based their entire self-esteem on them being "intelligent" and they had their stupid fucking gender studies degree to prove that. So when wider society, outside their little academic bubble, start telling them their critical gender theory ideas are a load of crap, that cut them deep. They'd literally invested in those ideas.
