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Over the last week I could swear I've seen way more LIB types suddenly throwing around the word troglodyte left right and centre

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure lots of people in freeze-gamer communities use racist terminology that was derived from Heated G!mer Moments without knowing where it came from. And that's understandable.

It's like the use of (CW: Ableistic slang)

spoiler"REEEEEE" to describe someone being upset.

But some freeze-gamer get so protective of their edgy slang that they cite caveman themed video games from the 90s to justify contemporary use and argue for hours against everyone saying otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The fgc is profoundly sexist, but it's very multiracial, with a particularly large proportion of black members, including the NB person who is currently held as the best in the genre, sonicfox. It's possible that I just don't know the origin, but I wouldn't guess that it was something anti-black because then there would probably be more pushback against it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comrade Sonicfox is exactly the kind of person that inspires bravery in lots of marginalized people, and makes freeze-gamer bigots sooooo mad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely, and I'm glad for what they do. I would think since they are pretty outspoken that they or another community figure would say something if there was an issue, even if that lead to r/kappa using the term even more because their only belief is chauvinist contrarianism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Whenever I hear someone say "kappa" as a punctuation mark unprompted in the internet wild (or, once, offline) it's pretty much always adjacent to bigoted edgelord shit. gamer-gulag