Instead of "it's not for me" it's always "this is horrible". Most of the time I'm on social media I see people talk down to others or ridicule them for liking or enjoying certain games. I get that gamers can be annoying, but it's just so draining sometimes.
And don't get me started on this anti-"woke' movement. Some people are BEGGING to see developers and games fail just because they don't like their stuff. Not to mention most of their complaints are based in BIGOTRY alone, which is definitely not getting better in the coming years. It's so fucking infuriating
Plus, In the early times of the Internet, gaming discourse wasn't this negative at all outside of the stupid Console War discussions.
I'm pretty sure that it's the way that social media is designed. It's designed to generate outrage to maximize engagement
People don’t even play these games on the whole. Their favourite slop merchant does a react video to someone else playing a game, or more likely the teaser trailer, decides it’s woke, and their opinion is chosen for them.
I dunno, I am definitely a category five hater, but I just play a game and if I don’t enjoy it I turn it off. Life’s too short to spend time caring this much about the size of boobs in an anime game or whatever. This is the most frustrating part of the culture war. At least get riled up about something important.