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this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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Damn, I never considered how much the marketing of the earlier eras must have contributed to toxic gamer culture, particularly misogyny and eventually inceldom.
I'm a little uncertain how much credit to give it, I feel like that kinda stuff was commonplace in advertising in general. But that was a long time ago and it'd be easy for me to just think that since I saw it in gaming and beer marketing that it was "everywhere". Maybe it was way more uneven than I'm thinking, or something. Sure feels relevant.