Aside from videogames, choose your own adventure (cyoa like on r/makeyourchoice) prompts are also pretty rife with shitty things. Aside from the excessive sexualization of women, there are also several instances where authors enforce a gender binary and heteronormative romance.
In a subculture based on customization and choice.
Oh man, wrestlers are the fucking worst. Like, they know how gay the sport is, and instead of embracing it like bodybuilders do, they pick up like 6 layers of homophobia and a tough guy attitude as a defense.
Like, I made a comment that tucking your hoody into basketball shorts looks dumb as hell and got told basically that fashion was for f*gs.
Like dude, we're skipping clubbing on a Friday night to roll around in singlets with sweaty dudes, caring about fashion is the straightest thing I've done all night.
Also, if I, a queer can wrestle some jacked lean dudes and not get aroused, then you as a straight dude can take a chill pill and admit its kida gay and that's okay.
So much insecurity. Jesus. I know a ton of straight dudes who wrestled in school and was disappointed to find so many of them to be homophobic.
Time to bring back Ancient Greek nude wrestling so the guys wrestling in tights can look straight by comparison
Unfortunately, pankration will never be as gay as Turkish Oil Wrestling, the pinnacle of all wrestling and the only sport where the Rusty Fishhook is a legal hold
so is it possible to 3D print a gun that you can fire more than 3 times yet?
You can print all the plastic parts. You still need a steel barrel etc. "3d printed guns" is mostly nonsense.
Football, ultra culture tends overwhelmingly fash.
History has already been mentioned. If you talk to a self proclaimed "history geek" chances are that they're interested in one of three things, Rome, the crusades or WW2, and all for bad reasons.
if someone refers to themselves as a "history buff" or anything like that then they're usually some /r/historymemes tier shithead who only knows the most superficial elements of those three parts of history, for sure. i've found that people who actually know and understand a bit of history will show that they're knowledgeable about it when it comes up in conversation naturally but don't identify with the idea of being a "history nerd" because we all actually understand that we don't know shit about fuck and the complexity of the subject is more than any person could truly grasp.
like, the more i learn about things, the more i realise that history is a completely subjective discipline and there's infinitely more that we don't know than that we do. one example being with ancient history, you hear about egypt and mesopotamia so much more than you do about e.g. norte chico or the indus river valley civilisation simply because the former two have been studied so much more (in the western school anyway) and left behind far more that's of use to modern historians (written records, more substantial archeological remains, and so on).
That’s one of the reasons I appreciate our comrade @WhoaSlowDownMaurice, they’re a history buff that is chill af and actually likes history.
The Vietnam War is also swarmed by irony poisoned zoomer nazis
Weird to see zoomers stan the USA in like the war that proved beyond a doubt that the USA were war criminals.
and because they are black pilled into wanting to die in a war
Yikes.
When I was back on /pol/ they really weren't into that kind of stuff just yet. They were just big on racism and hating the jews. This is a pretty disturbing turn but I'm not surprised.
I think it would be more efficient to list non-reactionary fanbases.
Is digital art reactionary? I feel like I've seen people of all stripes try their hand at it.
Damn I was thinking about making some art, but if that's sus I'll have to come up with something else...
I've had a really good experience with contemporary classical music fans. Since they tend to grow so much out of campus culture of schools of music the right end of the fanbase culture tends to be NPR lib which is a lot more bearable a personality type than true CHUDS
The entire human race is reactionary. I'm into CHUD hobbies like weights, cars, etc. and pretty much everything has a fucking terrible fanbase.
Leftist Thought is honestly really fucking rare, the US thoroughly won the Cold War
History. I remember being so excited when I found r/historymemes but then it was just 90% "communism is when no food." Basically every time I check out the community of a thing I like there is at least a couple weirdo reactionaries who have to bring up hating trans folk or ranting about SJW cancel culture into literally every discussion. I think the only largely good communities I've found are DnD/Pathfinder, and Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley/Etc. which are thankfully both very queer-friendly.
ranting about SJW cancel culture into literally every discussion
This is tech/software forums.
Everytime lemmy or hexbears slur filter comes up:
:le-pol-face: “Ah yes, the sremovedhrope problem.”
Because the word sremovedhrope comes up all the time in conversation.
i've found that ppl playing paradox games are either fascists or communists and the fascists are the most insufferable people on earth. this issue is especially pronounced with the HOI4 community. mainly bc the game itself is super bad politically
black metal, shockingly. don't tend to get many centrists, is like 1/3rd cool and lovely people, 2/3rds absolute ghouls.
All the black metal shows I've been to have been anarchist bands, maybe it's a regional thing?
maybe! that seems like it could be a self selecting thing though, I don't tend to go watching racist or ideologically committed right wing bands either, because: gross. but they're definitely playing and have big audiences and that audience overlaps with shows I do go to and has big presence in online spaces.
I know black metal has been said, but it's metal in general. Like 1/3 are cool, 1/3 are maybe tolerable on a good day, and 1/3 are complete neonazis or bootlicking chuds.
Machining and manufacturing, welding. I really really want to get into machining, but I don't even know where you would go to find machine shops that aren't populated almost exclusively by chuds. The scientific side (e.g. engineering and/or masters and up level academia and research) is also mostly filled with conservative types in my experience.
Watching youtube videos where they are turning down some brass stock (or anything really) on a lathe and using dial indicators to get the runout down to less than a thousandth of an inch is like the most satisfying shit I've ever seen--and I've heard actually doing it real life feels even better. Unfortunately serious milling machines, lathes, and CNC mills are expensive as fuck, and even if you could just buy them you really need structured learning from somewhere to make really nice stuff
do you live near a hackspace or a community workshop at all?
I guess fucking everything. I always avoided any kind of online community so I would have to deal with fucking Screaming nerds.
Video games and animated nerds are pretty toxic when it comes to non standard depreciations of women, like look at the reaction to She-Ra a show for like millennial women and their daughters who where old enough to remember the old show. Abby, in the last of us got a lot of scorn and she was just a muscle girl.
Warhammer has a history with people liking at little too much of the the authoritarian and Nazi stuff in the death corps (I know they are based on WW1 french soldier, don't at me), I remember Snipe and Wib always talking about how they can't talk about Female Space Marines, despite them kinda of being a thing in early cannon, without fucking chuds showing up.
I'm also apart of a 3d miniature Patreon type group on Facebook and there are people on there that fucking treat the creators as gods for releasing stls for 15 dollars a month and will get super fucking pissed if you talk about there pricing or their business model.
People like to keep their groups exclusive
Scale modelling for sure. Most model kits are military vehicles so the primary audience is going to mainly fall under: people who are into military history, people who were in the military (or had family members in the military), and/or people who fetishize the military. Since this hobby also requires some money and time investment, it naturally attracts the more privileged people as well.
WW2 models also attracts a lot of Wehraboos. I can understand the Tiger and Panzers being popular since they are fairly iconic, but there's so many niche variants, paper designs or prototype vehicles that you can tell were solely made for appealing to the German tank nerds.
Real tank nerds build six T-34-85s for every Panther model that get's produced.
most of my taste in music has very reactionary fanbases. especially metal and the older industrial/post-industrial communities
