I try to think that the movement was so meaningless, disorganized and without an actual purpose that it has been forgotten by younger people in less than a decade. it puts things into perspective imo
every time one of the zoomers in my FC uses it I’m like ‘they’ve never even HEARD of gamergate’ and it makes me feel better
this is more of generation gap than simpsons/spongebob references. it’s fascinating
groypers will always be a red flag though. fuck a groyper
the zoomers in your… fan club?
free company (ffxiv guild)
I also prefer 10k zoomers using pepes to one person saying sadge/madge/bedge or any word like that it drives me CRAZY
feel the same way everytime i see the word “seggs” or “unalive” any self censor tiktok safe language in the wild
I am finding out about new frontiers in language itt
it’s weird seeing people call pepe a 4chan thing when it’s like impossible to escape those emotes on twitch
speaking of this, i saw this walking around in Brooklyn today (lol)
and the completely surface-level epic bacon blandness to it made me think of that recent drama around an IGN reviewer saying “if we don’t cover a game it’s probably not worth your time” or just the convo about a lot of AAA games being bloated and at cross purposes with themselves which constantly comes up. the word “gamer” has gone back to having almost no connotation anymore. and it made me formulate the idea that a lot of video game culture just never escaped the period of around 2007-2009.
the blogging wars or niche stuff like Twine/queer games of the 2010’s never made a lasting impact and have mostly been forgotten if people even knew they existed. even gamergate is forgotten by a lot of people like Daphny says. big youtuber/streamer personalities are less likely to flirt with right wing grift and more likely to be a Yahtzee-type “lol this is cringe” personality. it’s the same conversations and drama being had about like AAA games that were being had then. “indie games” that haven’t been just absorbed and metabolized as mainstream games (i.e. Undertale, Celeste, Hollow Knight) are still a niche thing outside of like, horror games. gamer culture is in general back to where it is where it has some like ostensible apolitical epic bacon surface level. there’s this kind of twee #lol #vibes performance to everything that doesn’t belie anything in particular that feels like a new version of a guy wearing a t-shirt with a power glove on it or whatever. literally everyone says “bro” now which i feel like was a big thing in the late 2000’s also. but ofc there are microdramas playing out still and people are getting harassed and targeted beneath the surface, but it’s considered too niche to be paid attention to outside of that.
i dunno, it’s all very weird! i mean i guess i’m happy that “gamer” or pepes don’t automatically mean something awful now, but like… there’s a bit of a feeling like history is just repeating itself and people are just sleepwalking through things.
The Epic Bacon Gamer with all the trappings and vocabulary of every gamer youtuber, but all they cover is niche games from itch.io
this is basically what watching ThorHighHeels is like (my joke is that the conclusion of every single one of his videos is “this is a vibe tho”), but he covers like semi-obscure older Japanese games more than anything else. it is basically always all about the aesthetic, which makes him the most Zoomer of all game youtubers that i can think of.
Welp I got a new piece of trash to shove in my ear holes.
I keep encountering “this is the way” which yes is a very ear-wormy phrase so I get it, but lord it came from an unbelievable racist source so I recoil at the sight of it.
i like his videos in very small doses but watching any more than a couple at a time makes me go absolutely insane. not everything is a vibe tho! there are things other than vibes! god!!!
Oh I meant something worse, that podcast in the picture.
lol it looks exactly as i expected.
welcome to 2008 bro. it’s freaking epic sauce
yh i think he’s moved more and more towards that sort of thing over the years, i still appreciate his Angle in terms of it not being dark souls essay recitation of game mechanics stuff, though it can often just end up being kind of flat only the surface matters type spiel that you could basically mix n match with any sort of underlying content
when he did a video called “the games i HATE” involving this intense personal trauma he had around a game or two and then the conclusion was still the inevitable “in the end, this is a vibe tho” i like… ragequit out of this reality
Yesterday at a doctor’s appointment for Mia, a PA unironically said Awesomesauce after getting her head circumference measurement and it took everything I had not to do a doubletake at her
I would have lost my mind
“I’m not having my baby examined by some soy-ass doctor!! I’m going right this minute to get a second opinion from someone who barely speaks English!!!”
it’s really wild with the rate that slang moves that certain terms just get frozen in a person’s lexicon. not many but a handful of people will be saying “based” and “yeet” and “mid” and “awesomesauce” 30 years from now
