Why can't these dumbfuck gamers just stop playing the game they hate
Because they don't hate the game. Its all performative. They love the attention that lashing out at Popular New Thing provokes. And they love riding the algorithm, wherein anyone talking about Popular New Thing frequently enough gets promoted to the top of the automated attention queue.
This is all about generating influence through attention seeking behaviors. The game itself doesn't matter, save that someone is spending a fortune to promote mentions of it and that offers these shits an elevated platform to say provocative shit.
Because they don't hate the game. Its all performative. They love the attention that lashing out at Popular New Thing provokes. And they love riding the algorithm, wherein anyone talking about Popular New Thing frequently enough gets promoted to the top of the automated attention queue.
This is all about generating influence through attention seeking behaviors. The game itself doesn't matter, save that someone is spending a fortune to promote mentions of it and that offers these shits an elevated platform to say provocative shit.