fuck i’m glad i grew up before ‘gamers’ were a thing… there’s a nonzero chance i would have been sucked into that weird subcult if i had been born 10 years later
Having grown up being into geeky stuff when the internet was still in its formative years, I definitely knew people back then within geek spaces that fit the mold for the mindset. But because there was no Reddit or 4chan or Twitter for them to coalesce around, they ended up being the people who were ostracized by the other geeks if they didn’t cut their shit out.
But now spaces like the aforementioned and asmongold’s stream where they don’t experience social friction for being toxic human beings means they can just dive further into their shitty personalities instead of having to adjust.
fuck i’m glad i grew up before ‘gamers’ were a thing… there’s a nonzero chance i would have been sucked into that weird subcult if i had been born 10 years later
Having grown up being into geeky stuff when the internet was still in its formative years, I definitely knew people back then within geek spaces that fit the mold for the
mindset. But because there was no Reddit or 4chan or Twitter for them to coalesce around, they ended up being the people who were ostracized by the other geeks if they didn’t cut their shit out.
But now spaces like the aforementioned and asmongold’s stream where they don’t experience social friction for being toxic human beings means they can just dive further into their shitty personalities instead of having to adjust.