So, QAnon....

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(07-19-2020, 07:02 PM)samhain Wrote: I'm not a gamer and haven't played video games in 15 years, but from the little I see of the gaming community I gather that it's a real cesspool.  My kid is all into Minecraft and Roblox, and I watch the people he sees on Youtube like a hawk.  A lot of the conspiracy theory/ lite White Nationalism seems to stem from those kinds of places where shit-talking and tribalism kind of serve as an incubator for more non-virtual stupidity. I scared the shit out of me when I found out that Pewdiepie, a dude that's highly accessible to kids is basically a Neo-Nazi with less threatening approaches.  Candace Owens is another fun product of this community.  It's bad enough that people end up spending insane amounts of time and money on something as useless as online gaming, but now we have to watch out for conspiracy kooks and political radicals preying on our kids, too.

If you want to see how toxic the gaming community is, look up gamer gate. The mere existence of women in gaming sent the entire community into a months long tail spin.

I'm not familiar with Owens' origination from the gaming community but it wouldn't surprise me if a good portion of her followers were from that community. 

I enjoy playing video games and I think their means of telling a story is both enjoyable and distinct from all other media but the online gaming communities are crazy problematic.