siryouarebeingmocked:

the-real-seebs:

snitchanon:

As much as I hate leaning on the ‘but muh autisms’ button, the Internet Justice status quo of “You must follow, to the letter, a bunch of social rules that are never codified, periodically changed with no indication and contradictory. Any deviation from these (completely hidden) rules – along with any requests to explain or other questioning – will get you at best dismissed and mocked as ignorant and at worst harassed perpetually with intent to make you commit suicide” is shockingly ableist and strongly echoes the kinds of bullying autistic kids face in school and other social situations.

And like many examples of Guess Culture (where the rules are unspoken and have to be inferred), it’s terrible for neurotypicals too.

I don’t think this is unintentional, because the people doing it tend to hammer on the issue extra hard when they can.

It’s convenient for cults if they can change the rules whenever they please.

abdullahqutbedden:

shadowdj94:

rain-wander:

strawberrymentats:

It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.

Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.

I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.

The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:

A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.

B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.

tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.

I cant agree with this post more

Signal boosting

That’s why I turned off the voice mic volume during Overwatch matches, because I got tired of random twats yelling at me for picking the hero I wanted to pick. Or blaming me for losing when I’ve done nothing but provide good support for the rest of my teammates throughout the entire match.

dunintentional:

i’m not even the mum friend, i’m like the grandma friend.
evidence:
– falls asleep a lot
– confused about most things
– loves baking for people
– exasperated at the Youths™
– u never really know what i’m on about but i mean well so u smile and nod anyway

discoursecatharsis:

Someone else gave a good explanation that they may just be copying each others art styles. Not on purpose but just a “monkey see, monkey do” type deal since their communities are pretty tight knit, they probably end up subconsciously copying each others’ styles

discoursecatharsis:

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