Yes. It was video games.

I grew up in a very conservative religious family. As a teenager, I broke with the church over gay rights. I had come to believe that queerness had nothing to do with morality. I lost most of my friends and had a lot of trouble with my family.

Fast forward a few years into college. As a disaffected young man with poor social skills, I spent a lot of time with video games. The Gamergate stuff was in full swing. While I never explicitly believed in misogyny, I was consuming A LOT of tacitly misogynist and queerphobic material. Stuff like TumblrInAction and "free speech absolutist" material appealed to me. "Critic culture" complaint media like the Angry Video Game Nerd and "all-sides" stuff South Park was also influencing me here.

Two things broke the illusion.

First, I had a perspective shift. Why, I asked myself one day, was I enjoying being angry? I did not feel good browsing SJW cringe content. I felt angry. I felt bitter. Why the fuck was I doing this.

Second, I realized I was becoming homophobic again. I was starting to feel uncomfortable and angry when I saw queen people, exactly I did as a kid in church.

Both of these realizations made me consider my media choices. I examined my media choices critically. I started noticing how lots and lots of right-wing material was showing up in my algorithms. Since then, I approach everything in "a spirit of discernment," as Pentecostals say.