Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[kaleidoscopium]

I'd say terminally-online gamers have no impact....but that's not really true. The chuds very clearly do. They're the ones that can quickly foment outrage and thus headlines, they're the ones farming views on Youtube and TikTok, they're the ones able to make enough noise to permeate into the mainstream, they're the ones able to inspire unrelated actions outside of gaming itself. Us? We don't get to have shit, not when most gamers have no idea what's going on and don't want to know, and not when most gamers that do know just wanna play their fun escapist games in peace without anyone judging them for bad habits or guilty pleasures or whatever.

Until we see a serious attitude change around gaming consumption we're just not going to see any change to this. Gaming journalists try, Youtubers and other influencers try, even forums like this one try, but goddamn can it really feel like just screaming into the void.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-myth-wukong-has-hit-1m-concurrent-players-on-steam.957483/page-5#post-127402536