I have a distinct memory of naively talking with a gamer chud in 2007 right when Europa Universalis III came out. He was talking about challenge runs he wanted to do, including forming Germany and committing acts of imperial aggression everywhere. He then compared himself positively to the Nazis. I tried to haha at him and said he was being silly, then he replied he was serious and imagine teenage me like :shocked-pikachu:

First time I had ever encountered fascists so openly