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Thoughts?

Literally just heard of it and its a clusterfuck already.

@FaZe_Kah00t:
Gamers are not inherently bad people like people are trying to claim * inserts example of gamers doing something nice, or something like that ( This one restored my faith in humanity a bit ) *

@SPlusClassSJW:
ACTUALLY ALL YOU GAMERS ARE TERRIBLE PEOPLE YOUR SEXIST RACIST AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU PROBABLY SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP AND MASTERBATE TO ANIME ITS YOUR FAULT THAT THE ALT RIGHT IS A THING TODAY YOUS SHOULD BE A ASHAMED THAT YOU WERE BORN IN THE FIRST PLACE.

@PlebPrime:
Wow people are pissed over @GamersAreGood.

Pretty much sums the Hashtag up from what I've seen.

Why is that a thing?

Uuuhhhh, can we have some actual context about this please?

If you tell me what the fuck this is about, I can have some thoughts on it…

I guess it comes from the recent demonizing of "gamers" by people on the net as collectively some evil force of racism and misogyny, as like a counterargument

For those unaware here, Mark Kern, a well known game developer that worked on the original WoW, made a tweet talking about how games are mainstream know, but there was a time when geeks, and for the topic here, more specifically, gamers, used to be bullied.

People reacted very negatively to this, saying that they were never bullied and that POC, LGBT, disabled and whatever other minority group was bullied more. This quickly turned into a hate mob. Mark Kern didn't take any of the negativity to heart though. Instead, he tried to turn it positive, and thus #GamersAreGood was born.

The point of the hashtag was to post positive stories that people have had with gaming. Stories about making friends or overcoming personal issues in real life. However, there were quite a few people that used the hashtag just to try and shit on gamers, while gamers were out there pouring their hearts out.

Mark Kern's Twitter

The hashtag page

There's also a few videos out there too:

And one article that I could find on Gezette Extra

This is not big enough IMO. Top google results show those videos with under 10k views. Tweets have under 2k likes(at least those that I seen).

Gamers are very wide group which has many people with different personality, political views, goals and humour. I think even SJWs should understand that nothing good will come from this.

@Garumbo
"I think even SJWs should understand that nothing good will come from this."
They'll never let it go. Up until they picked a fight with gamers they had never lost any of their culture war battles and were thought of a unstoppable juggernaut. When they picked a fight with gamers they received pretty much just a scratch, however in receiving that scratch every group that had previously opposed sjw's who were starting to think they couldn't win realized "if it bleeds we can kill it".

In a way sjw's are kind of right; if they didn't pick a fight with gamers everyone would have continued to believe that winning against them was impossible. However since they picked a fight with gamers and lost that showed everyone they weren't impossible to defeat and as a result fucking everyone started dogpiling on sjw's.

@SPlusClassSJW:
ACTUALLY ALL YOU GAMERS ARE TERRIBLE PEOPLE YOUR SEXIST RACIST AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU PROBABLY SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP AND MASTERBATE TO ANIME ITS YOUR FAULT THAT THE ALT RIGHT IS A THING TODAY YOUS SHOULD BE A ASHAMED THAT YOU WERE BORN IN THE FIRST PLACE.

>@SPlusClassSJW

That's bait you dip.

Looking at that hashtag, it’s a mess of:
-people shitposting
-people making jokes about the negative side of gaming
-people talking about how their group was more oppressed and how they think they deserve pity and no one else does
-people generalizing gamers as those few assholes we deal with online
-a small amount of actual feel good stories

W-we just wanted to talk about playing fun video games with friends… ;_;

Sounds like a shit show.
How sad.