I don't think it's that simple. Obviously companies want to control and shape those identities but they can do it only to an extent. I'm sure most publishers would prefer that their fans were woke, so they didn't have to navigate the contradictions between expectations of modern woke corporate culture and reactionary parts of their fanbase.
I feel like reactionary nature of the Gamer identity has more to do that it was originally made up of white middle class nerdy dudes, a group by it's nature drawn to the right.
I feel like reactionary nature of the Gamer identity has more to do that it was originally made up of white middle class nerdy dudes, a group by it’s nature drawn to the right.
Plus a heavy dose of capitalist alienation. If those gamers weren't being failed by our system so hard they would probably be your typical neoliberal techbro dipshits. Its that white middle class ingrained idea that they deserve better because they are part of the in group, but then getting their legs cut out from under them by the material realities of our system, and then the resulting social fallout that keeps them insular and unable to pursue relationships, reinforcing the alienation and creating a death spiral to reactionary gamer scum.
That is a good point. "Heated gamer moment" was coined for how often these white guys will resort to slurs when they start losing at their precious online shooter.
Might be a little of column A, a little of column B
I don't think it's that simple. Obviously companies want to control and shape those identities but they can do it only to an extent. I'm sure most publishers would prefer that their fans were woke, so they didn't have to navigate the contradictions between expectations of modern woke corporate culture and reactionary parts of their fanbase.
I feel like reactionary nature of the Gamer identity has more to do that it was originally made up of white middle class nerdy dudes, a group by it's nature drawn to the right.
Plus a heavy dose of capitalist alienation. If those gamers weren't being failed by our system so hard they would probably be your typical neoliberal techbro dipshits. Its that white middle class ingrained idea that they deserve better because they are part of the in group, but then getting their legs cut out from under them by the material realities of our system, and then the resulting social fallout that keeps them insular and unable to pursue relationships, reinforcing the alienation and creating a death spiral to reactionary gamer scum.
That is a good point. "Heated gamer moment" was coined for how often these white guys will resort to slurs when they start losing at their precious online shooter.
Might be a little of column A, a little of column B