Instead of “it’s not for me” it’s always “this is horrible”. Most of the time I’m on social media I see people talk down to others or ridicule them for liking or enjoying certain games. I get that gamers can be annoying, but it’s just so draining sometimes.
And don’t get me started on this anti-"woke’ movement. Some people are BEGGING to see developers and games fail just because they don’t like their stuff. Not to mention most of their complaints are based in BIGOTRY alone, which is definitely not getting better in the coming years. It’s so fucking infuriating
Plus, In the early times of the Internet, gaming discourse wasn’t this negative at all outside of the stupid Console War discussions.
I’m pretty sure that it’s the way that social media is designed. It’s designed to generate outrage to maximize engagement
not sure where you’ve been for the past 30 years but it has pretty much always been like this
Playing Vidya Games for Fun vs. Playing Vidya Games as Personal Identity
Gaming discussion online has always been shitty on the whole, but nowadays this applies to nearly every hobby online. Social media amplifies this effect like crazy.
For me this is how the gaming community has always been. It’s the reason I’m pro gamer gulags tbh
I remember seeing flame wars on gamefaqs over 20 years ago over dumb shit while looking for guides. Gamers, like all fandoms, have always been like this.
I mean besides the cultural war and the social media manipulating things to be always angry comments we also have the enshitfication in general affecting the industry.
Capitalism endgame: instead of artists working on passion projects, it’s corporate slop directed by weird people in suits using soulless algorithms attempting to maximize profit margins.
Like always, people are angry at capitalism but didn’t notice it yet.
I wonder how many people that are gaming enthusiasts are depressed and feel less satisfaction with things generally
That’s a good point. It’s kinda a chicken and egg situation, though. Do lonely people get into gaming because they don’t have IRL hobbies and friends, or do the people who are really into gaming become depressed and lonely because of the nature of the activity?
thats literally everybody in every hobby all the time. like what could you possibly be into where you go “oh yeah this is the high time for this, this is going greater (or at least not worse) than ever before”
Gamers are whiny next question
In the early times of the Internet, gaming discourse wasn’t this negative at all outside of the stupid Console War discussions.
idk what about like gamergate and all that shit, i dont think it was ever nice
Gamergate is super recent, I think they mean like in the 2000s and earlier.
its like ten years old
Yeah and the internet is like 40 years old, it’s still super recent when you consider how long the Interrnet went without massive commercialized social media.
recently
Gaming discourse has been terrible as long as I’ve been alive and probably longer.
Guy yelling into his HAM radio about pong being pinko nonsense
I feel like its only a continuation of the same idpol taken to the extreme, first it was the “console wars” now its a genre wars, people build their identities around certain games or studios (e.g from software). Its kinda sad because i enjoy pretty much any genre.
It’s been like this since I started consuming video game content in like 2011. The only newish addition is the gamers who call every game woke now.
Recently?
Also, chuds have been poisoning the well basically since 2013 and earlier. To be honest it got worse with the rise of platforms like YouTube and all other social media. There were always shitheads but now they make millions from patreon subs to post slop on YouTube
I remember WoW forums being a cesspit in 2006-ish. Bleh
recently?
