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Citizen K11/01/2017 10:23:01 am PDT

re: #433 Renaissance_Man

Most online video gamers are teenage males or young adults. This is a demographic that is prone to antisocial behaviour, and has a tendency to cluster in groups with a gang-type mentality. This is not limited to teenage males, naturally - most online video gamers are males in general with a similar mentality. Add the anonymity and freedom of consequences that the internet provides, and there is a huge subsection of online game players that are, in short, humongous assholes. And they’re free to be because there are no real consequences, due to anonymity.

You are who you are on the internet, and as a species, we have failed this test of character. This is a large part of my avoidance of all social media, and why I reveal very little about myself in any online forum. The mentality of Gamergate goes hand in hand with the mentality of Facebook and Twitter trolls, and, further out, the mentality of the know-nothing far right and their media cult. As a species, part of our next step of evolution must be to incorporate the social norms and responsibilities we feel when interacting in person to our online interactions.

Yeah, this is a big part of it. It’s not so much people ‘flipped’ as they exposed their ass. They showed who they really were under the facade.