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https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-gamers-don-t-have-to-be-your-audience-gamers-are-over-

I often say Im a video game culture writer, but lately I dont know exactly what that means. Game culture as we know it is kind of embarrassing -- its not even culture. Its buying things, spackling over memes and in-jokes repeatedly, and its getting mad on the internet. Its young men queuing with plush mushroom hats and backpacks and jutting promo poster rolls. Queuing passionately for hours, at events around the world, to see the things that marketers want them to see. To find out whether they should buy things or not. They dont know how to dress or behave. Television cameras pan across these listless queues, and often catch the expressions of people who dont quite know why they themselves are standing there. Games culture is a petri dish of people who know so little about how human social interaction and professional life works that they can concoct online wars about social justice or game journalism ethics, straight-faced, and cause genuine human consequences. Because of video games. Lately, I often find myself wondering what Im even doing here. And I know Im not alone. All of us should be better than this. You should be deeply questioning your life choices if this and this and this are the prominent public face your business presents to the rest of the world.
"When you decline to create or to curate a culture in your spaces, youre responsible for what spawns in the vacuum."
This is what the rest of the world knows about your industry -- this, and headlines about billion-dollar war simulators or those junkies with the touchscreen candies. Thats it. You should absolutely be better than this. You dont want to be divisive? Whos being divided, except for people who are okay with an infantilized cultural desert of shitty behavior and people who arent? What is there to debate?

All sounds pretty correct to me. Why are they mad again? How are articles like this 'corruption'

Bernie Sanders isn't a particularly good comparison because there's still a central politician who actually does things that can be discussed.

That was not Gamergate. They were angry about these Gamer articles and Feminist Frequency right? So culture war crap? All of the notable Gamergaters were alt-right grifters. All of their targets were feminists and gaming websites. That's their entire thing to discuss.