>>36112496/pol/ was already taken seriously way before gg was even a thing, or did you somehow miss the salt being thrown by the media in 2012-2013? It even managed to eclipse what a wank stain /b/ has always been.
Media sneak fucks were super cereal about the internet before it was cool and /pol/'s power is a direct consequence of their inability to ignore or understand it. Fuck, they took this shit so super duper serious back then, the media went out of its way to humiliate the saddest losers faggotry boards have to offer: the wizards. This shit was inevitable with or without gg. Gg just happened at the right time to make the whole thing really pop off and give /pol/ the momentum to create for real cancer magic in more ways than one.