what geek culture has a problem with. And it is *exhausting* to explain this to every single person b/c it's how people talk
(oh, that's fine.) who would stop them? their fans? the people who aren't their fans catch the cultural impact via fans.
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Well, take something like women in tech. Ideally, colleagues would be stepping up and really speaking out against misogynists.
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there's a wave of that with each public incident, but i assume you mean earlier, implicating a don't-rock-the-boat culture
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that sort of dynamic must be operating in gaming, like who wants to get pewdiepie mad at you before it becomes popular to
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i mean, i've always viscerally loathed pewdiepie and would say so to anybody who cared, but why would anybody care?
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There's a lot of cult of personality on the Internet. If pewdiepie were a diff person and condemned someone being racist, it
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would make a difference.
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i imagine. so it's more the PDPs and JonTrons that you'd be asking to rein each other in. hm.
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probably the narcissistic supply issues that lead to heading up an internet personality cult don't mesh well with empathy.
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