"Before white supremacists, neo-Nazis and white nationalists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia in August they were organizing behind a computer screen," according to a video piece by NBC News. "And a lot of that organizing happened through a messaging service called Discord which was original created to connect video game players to one another.

"This is just the latest in the long-running, shared history between the gaming community and the alt-right."

In the video, which ran Monday night on In the video, which ran Monday night on NBC News' Think , a page dedicated to opinions, analysis and essays, experts on video game culture discuss the disturbing cross-over between the Alt-Right and some gaming communities, including GamerGate.

GamerGate arose in early 2013, ostensibly over concerns about ethics in game journalism, and quickly coalesced into a group of self-identified members whose concerns expanded to include the rise of what they labeled "PC culture" and "social justice warriors." The more vocal of the group typically harass people, more often women and minorities, who question some of the status quo of game content in the video game industry. GamerGate harassment is most often sparked by the expansion of gaming content, settings and characters to include more women, minorities and the examination of modern social issues.

In the video, Emma Vossen, a PhD candidate at Waterloo Games Institute, says that the same techniques used by GamerGate members were also used by Trump supporters. The video goes on to examine those similarities and how one may have fed into the other.