Honestly, some of the gaming community these days Is filled with the most revolting, incel cesspool I’ve ever seen. Look at zenless Zone Zero created by Hoyo, who also created Genshin impact. It’s filled with characters that look like they are 12 years old, highly sexualized and half naked, with jiggly boob and butt physics, feet pictures, the official community on Reddit that is run by Hoyo itself is bombarded with half naked pictures of these young girls. It’s truly disturbing. The way these gamers defend it is even more disturbing. They say things like “It’s fictional so it doesn’t matter if she looks like a child.” like what??? Bro
Wtf is this logic? “Some pervy games exist, therefore the gaming community these days is the most revolting, incel cesspool I’ve ever seen”. You know, lots of gamers also don’t play Genshin Impact because it looks gross and dumb (myself among them)
You might as well say “CSAM exists, therefore everyone in the world is a filthy degenerate pedo incel”
Point was, gaming community has never historically been filled with so many pervy people coming out of the woodwork saying grotesque things about characters that look like they are 12 years old like they are now. That stuff usually stayed on 4chan and other niches. Now, you have AAA studios developing games with so many thirst trap elements in them that it’s honestly disturbing. Activision Blizzard had to completely remove paintings and pictures of women from the game as a response to sexual abuse allegations within their own company. That’s a billion dollar company owned by Microsoft. More people aren’t taking a stand on this because they’re clearly enjoying the oversaturation of heavily sexualized video games nowadays. That’s pretty disturbing and that kind of stuff should never be mainstream because mainstream games are supposed to appeal to an audience of all ages, and makes it easier to get access to that kind of stuff for everyone which creates its own problems
gaming community has never historically been filled with so many pervy people
Lmao. You clearly don’t remember ye olde days when gaming companies would just openly advertise using misogyny because they knew it would appeal to their target demographic. There was a time when a game having a woman protagonist would be considered shocking, and all women characters in games wore bikinis.
The games industry hasn’t gotten more gross and pervy. It’s gotten significantly less so. It’s just that the industry as a whole has also grown massively. So what used to be like 40% of the population of gamers a few decades ago is now only like 5%, but the actual quantity of people is bigger. Again, you’re condemning an entire medium for the behaviour of a relatively small number of creators and consumers. I’ve personally never in my life met someone who actually plays those awful anime gatcha games like Genshin Impact, and yet virtually everyone I know plays video games to some extent.
that kind of stuff should never be mainstream because mainstream games are supposed to appeal to an audience of all ages
Spare me the puritanical bullshit. The notion that every game should appeal to all ages is monumentally stupid. Go back to the dark ages when people complained about violence in games causing school shootings.
Honestly, some of the gaming community these days Is filled with the most revolting, incel cesspool I’ve ever seen. Look at zenless Zone Zero created by Hoyo, who also created Genshin impact. It’s filled with characters that look like they are 12 years old, highly sexualized and half naked, with jiggly boob and butt physics, feet pictures, the official community on Reddit that is run by Hoyo itself is bombarded with half naked pictures of these young girls. It’s truly disturbing. The way these gamers defend it is even more disturbing. They say things like “It’s fictional so it doesn’t matter if she looks like a child.” like what??? Bro
Wtf is this logic? “Some pervy games exist, therefore the gaming community these days is the most revolting, incel cesspool I’ve ever seen”. You know, lots of gamers also don’t play Genshin Impact because it looks gross and dumb (myself among them)
You might as well say “CSAM exists, therefore everyone in the world is a filthy degenerate pedo incel”
Point was, gaming community has never historically been filled with so many pervy people coming out of the woodwork saying grotesque things about characters that look like they are 12 years old like they are now. That stuff usually stayed on 4chan and other niches. Now, you have AAA studios developing games with so many thirst trap elements in them that it’s honestly disturbing. Activision Blizzard had to completely remove paintings and pictures of women from the game as a response to sexual abuse allegations within their own company. That’s a billion dollar company owned by Microsoft. More people aren’t taking a stand on this because they’re clearly enjoying the oversaturation of heavily sexualized video games nowadays. That’s pretty disturbing and that kind of stuff should never be mainstream because mainstream games are supposed to appeal to an audience of all ages, and makes it easier to get access to that kind of stuff for everyone which creates its own problems
Lmao. You clearly don’t remember ye olde days when gaming companies would just openly advertise using misogyny because they knew it would appeal to their target demographic. There was a time when a game having a woman protagonist would be considered shocking, and all women characters in games wore bikinis.
The games industry hasn’t gotten more gross and pervy. It’s gotten significantly less so. It’s just that the industry as a whole has also grown massively. So what used to be like 40% of the population of gamers a few decades ago is now only like 5%, but the actual quantity of people is bigger. Again, you’re condemning an entire medium for the behaviour of a relatively small number of creators and consumers. I’ve personally never in my life met someone who actually plays those awful anime gatcha games like Genshin Impact, and yet virtually everyone I know plays video games to some extent.
Spare me the puritanical bullshit. The notion that every game should appeal to all ages is monumentally stupid. Go back to the dark ages when people complained about violence in games causing school shootings.