While some of their language has changed the sentiment of this aggressive online movement is just as distressing. As one of their targets, I should know

While some of their language has changed, the sentiment of this latest aggressive movement is just as distressing. It’s time for the games industry to stand up to it

  •  dactylotheca   ( @dactylotheca@suppo.fi ) English
    7•3 months ago

    It never went away in the first place. A huge chunk of gAmErS are still incredibly toxic, basically just reich-wing edgelords who hate women and minorities.

    I saw someone complain about all the “woke” things in Starfield recently. He (and I’m 100% sure this was a “he”) listed things like “unattractive females” and “accents”, and goddamn if that wasn’t a perfect example of what’s wrong with so many gamers. Naturally “pronouns” were also a problem for this chud, because even the possibility of choosing “they” as a pronoun is literal gamer genocide apparently

    •  LinkOpensChest.wav   ( @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
      5•3 months ago

      It never went away in the first place

      Yes, last I checked, one of their prime hate forums r/KotakuInAction was still active, and still filled with the most pathetic little insects seething about the fact that women and minorities exist in media. Gamergate has never really ended. Most people just stopped paying attention to these fools.

      Unfortunately, that’s easy for me to say, since I’m not on the receiving end of their doxxing and death threats.

      I haven’t had the best life, but I just can’t fathom being such a total loser that I’d ever get that worked up over something like video games.

      •  dactylotheca   ( @dactylotheca@suppo.fi ) English
        6•3 months ago

        Even on Lemmy, which is generally full of exactly the sort of people gAmErS hate, gaming communities tend to be… well, gaming communities. At least this post hasn’t gotten downvoted into the negatives, but it’s got 50% as many downvotes as upvotes at the time I’m writing this. Sure, maybe some of those people have legitimate issues with the article, but I very much doubt it – it’s more likely they just saw “misogyny” in the title and downvoted without reading it.

        Edit: are there any less, uh, gamery gaming communities around?