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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This kind of marketing ruined gaming culture.

There is a throughline between gendered marketing; the idea that young hetero men owned gaming; and chud gaming culture like gamergate.

The idea of the young horny gamer dude is sexist toward men too. Never mind the accompanying stereotypes of gamers as loosers and nerds.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Nerd blackface.

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