WTF Is Wrong With Gaming Culture: Revenge-Porn Sitejacking
I’m starting to really, really hate videogames. Despite having friends who work as designers, programmers, project managers, etc., etc, too many ugly & obnoxious things are belching out of videogames to ignore.
Here’s the latest, and whoo boy, if you click through to the source material, may the Flying Spaghetti Monster guard & protect your sanity:
Many of the Discord users originate from infamous revenge-porn site Anon-IB, and have set up these chatrooms with the deliberate intent of more easily sharing and finding new images.
“All Discord does is remove the users. They just make new ones,” Mia Landsem, a professional taekwondo athlete and activist who infiltrates the offending Discord communities, told The Daily Beast. Landsem also shared screenshots indicating that other Discord servers are focused specifically on spreading videos of rape and serious abuse.
… In the wake of the spread of toxic GamerGate culture throughout the web …
… In the wake of the devolution of online discussion boards into toxic free-for-alls …
… in the wake of Twitter becoming an intolerable swamp of hate, trolling & griefing …
… and most especially, in the wake of the election of a President who seems to delight in deliberately causing pain, anguish, sorrow and disgust - JUST LIKE A GAMERGATE TROLL …
… it’s time perhaps to consider addressing this problem at its root.
So. Perhaps we have to address these questions at last:
What the fuck is wrong with videogame culture?
How do we fix it?