It’s like, at first, it was relatively apolitical except maybe the New Atheists who got popular by criticizing the mostly right-wing religious nutjobs.

But then, I think around the mid-2010s, it started to get super political. Suddenly, everybody started to talk about how the evil wacky feminazi SJWs were trying to destroy gaming and our culture?

At this point, it seems like many people have snapped out of it and are making fun of these “anti-woke” crazies, but what materially caused this phenomenon to happen in the first place and why does it still persist to an extent?

  • Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Interesting that you mention that, I think I talked about that one time. Basically last decade was the best until early 2017, I mean the internet, movies, games, vibe, everything, it was like early-mid 1980s for our parents and older people. Most of the popular trash today was non existent and Reddit was a lot less popular.

    Then exactly like you said, it went to shit in 2017, social media became cancer with all the political shit they started, for example, on Balkan YouTube during 2012-2016/early 2017 times there were very good YouTubers making content for little kids, older kids and adults alike, playing games, especially Minecraft, GTA V and horror games, videos about tech, work out, funny sketches, Creepypasta channels etc. After that came idiots who were fighting among themselves and causing political and regular dramas because that became popular for some reason, and of course sexual content and fighting over bullshit became normalized among them.

    I can’t even wrap my head around YouTube recommendations: shitting on movies, complaining about ‘‘politics’’ in them(‘‘politics’’ being women and minorities) big games being hyped and then rushed, then videos about complaining 24/7 about them, milking and shitting on OGs with countless pointless sequels and unnecessary updates, you name it. Cringe stuff on social media, people complaining about everything, cancel culture, Twitter, not to mention openly nazi nuts in the comments somehow passing unpunished.

    I don’t really know what exactly caused this.