I would partially agree with the statement, but the truth of the matter is that the only media outlets that covered gamergate largely were Milo Yiannopoulos and Christina Hoff Sommers, who are both associated with right-wing organizations. If you ever monitor the ongoings of Gamergate forums, there is much bellyaching against "leftists" or "SJWs" from a slice of the population that doesn't really have too much interaction with politics at large. When these kids see corruption within their small sphere of awareness being hand-waved away as being only cover for misogynists, it is very easy for bad actors to blame corruption on the "liberal media".

Many of these gamers are kids that don't read the news or follow politics much at all. They have no sense of history to understand that for most of human history up to even a few decades ago, women were largely seen as property. They see "feminists" as outsiders trying to destroy their main source of entertainment.