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Quit Gaming 6 Months Ago refers to a copypasta spawned from a post in which a person said that after they quit playing video games, their life improved in numerous ways, before saying people should stop trying to make a career out of gaming because it's "cringe as fuck."

Origin

On February 3rd, 2019 Twitter user @Eekozilla tweeted, "Quit gaming 6 months ago. Bought a new car, I have an amazing new girlfriend, I make a shitload of money and I'm buying a house this spring. I party every weekend, I'm never home. I'm enjoying life. Do yourselves a favor. Stop trying to make gaming a career. It's cringe as fuck." The tweet, since deleted, was screenshot by user Ravers.^[1]

Spread

Over the following months, the copypasta saw some spread on Twitter. It was posted by user @macawcaw123 on February 4th, gaining over 100 retweets and 1,800 likes (shown below, left). User @JojoroleinIRL tweeted July 12th, gaining over 60 retweets and 1,000 likes (shown below, right).

On September 19th, Twitter user @AJA_Cortes made a similar post about video games, writing, "Video games are the absolute worst Loser Habit you could have. Hours & hours spent on an ultimately useless skill. Sitting and getting fatter and weaker and skinnier and paler. Completely impaired social skills. Video games make you a bottom tier subhuman."^[2] This led to users replying to him with the copypasta. For example, user hitchariide responded to the copypasta and was retweeted by AJA_Cortes (shown below, left). As the copypasta spread, @AJA_Cortes erroneously took credit for inspiring the copypasta, saying "I caused a copypasta phenomenon" (shown below, right). The copypasta led to a question on /r/OutOfTheLoop^[3] about its origin.

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