Now, as for Candace Owens, Alex can claim that he woke her up, but she's been very public about her experience moving to the right, and it's due to Gamergate. In high school, Candace received a settlement of over $37,000 when she sued the school board for failing to protect her from racist death threats and harassment. Coincidentally, Norm Pattis was her lawyer. In 2015, she started a website called Degree 180, where there was a blog full of anti-Trump and anti-Republican content. So, you know, all around that side. She followed this up in 2016 with a website called Social Autopsy, which was supposed to be a site where online bullies would be unmasked and their anonymity was taken away. Everyone thought this was a terrible idea and would just lead to doxing and targeted harassment. It's super easy to see the way that the site's concept could be used for evil, particularly when it's being run by someone with as Hmm. Quinn, the target of a lot of the Gamergate harassment, apparently sent Owens a message warning her that this wasn't a good idea and she was likely to become the target of harassment herself if she followed through with this. Unsurprisingly, Owens did start getting harassed and doxed, and she decided to create an evidence- Wow. And just like that, Candace Owens became a right-wing con artist.