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baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠agoi donât think many people who played games at the time were heavily invested in gamergate, but the gamergate gamers were a very loud and toxic minority. thatâs often who is being talked about when you say gamer, not the average person who plays games.
Yeah, Iâm into gaming and still in the dark about what gamersgate is about. I was on reddit but not using other social media like twitter, so maybe that played role in not getting much exposure to it.
I donât think average gamer kept up with gamersgate, since they just were more interested in what games came out, reviews, and discussions about games.
It also ignored casual gamers. Like I think little phone games are now the biggest market. Honestly I think gamer is such a blanket term it doesnât have a lot of meaning anymore. I am pretty sure just by how widely digital gaming is now, how many players are like under 10 years old etc like they could NOT be gamergate people.
Yeah, its like making assumptions about cinema and TV show fans, but many donât keep up with celebrity news or culture. Its just a source of entertainment to them they like to watch.
Games being some niche demographic that is in the loop of every discourse is a very outdated old person view now. Its actually so popular now the revenue from it is more than film and music combined.
Even something like Marvel and DC being the stereotypical interest of some nerds no longer applies once it became mainstream, and thatâs where games have been at for years now.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I literally donât call myself a gamer anymore because I donât want to be associated with that trash.
They can have the term, quite frankly, playing video games isnât a personality but I like the idea of clearly identifying the people that think it is.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I donât know how I feel about it.
I probably game too much, even as an elderly old man. I still call myself a gamer AND want Steve Bannon and all his diet nazis to die in the most humiliating and embarrassing way possible⌠crushed by frozen poop falling from a plane sounds fun.
This is what nazis do. Take good or innocuous things and pervert them. All they do is destroy.
Iâll still keep calling myself a gamer while respecting your desire to distance yourself from scum.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
thatâs a good mindset to have