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That’s according to ‘Identity fusion and extremism in gaming cultures’, a research paper by Take This, a mental wellness advocacy organization with a focus on the game manufacture. Toxicity has long been known to exist within some parts of the video game community, and this inquiry seeks to empathise how this occurs.The enquiry explores the potential part of ‘identity fusion’ in toxic sections of gaming communities. Identity fusion is described equally “a deep, visceral sense of alignment” with a grouping or cause that strongly pervades an private’s personal life, to the indicate where information technology compels people to enact pro-group behaviours even when it is personally costly to do so.
Speaking to Vice, 1 of the authors of the study, Dr. Rachel Kowert, emphasised that its findings refer to this smaller, toxic portion of the gaming customs who show signs of ‘gamer’ civilisation taking over their personal identities, and that there’s no proffer that the wider populace of players is extreme.
“Identity fusion is when the social identity, the individual identity, fuses together and you tin’t tear them autonomously…. The way in which fusion is shown to develop makes them more susceptible to more extreme behaviours.”
The research was comprised of three studies which surveyed hundreds of people who played video games, and analysed their beliefs such every bit whether they related to right-wing absolutism or the alt-right movement, or their views on women and minorities.The studies then attempted to correlate identify fusion past request questions such as whether they believed they “make gaming culture strong”, and how willing they would be to “fight someone” for “making fun of gaming culture”.
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strongly identifying
every bit a
gamer
Lulu
Saw the truth backside the copied door
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In my experience people who base their whole identity around a hobby are already dubious. Cocky-identifying as a “gamer” is king of the carmine flags, though.
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OTL
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Literally the first and only time I turned that on. Gamers are awful.
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A pure sense of disinhibition(deindividuation maybe), in mass.
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Came hither looking for this video.
Am non disappointed
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lmfao. Gets me every fourth dimension.
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How almost videogame enthusiast or conneseiur of electronic gaming? Then once more I audio like I am tipping a fedora, m’lady.
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do, it’south not who I
am.
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imagine
strongly identifying
every bit a
gamer
I do most nothing just play games, listen to game podcasts and mail service here on this gaming forum.
I would never think to call myself a gamer.
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That said, I still believe it, and history taught u.s. this is all true and virtually
gamers
are almost a disgrace to our society.
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Isn’t it the fact that most of the engagements happening in the Gaming sphere is done in anonymity?
A pure sense of disinhibition(deindividuation possibly), in mass.
That’s what I thought for a long time, too. Merely in contempo years people are much more brazen and posting impaired, harmful shit on their ain social media accounts or streaming alive, and in both situations, their names and faces are exposed to everyone.
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I don’t personally identify equally a gamer but medically speaking I am i after being duped into drinking a chip of gamergirl bathwater. Luckily but the former grouping is decumbent to discrimination and I take non experienced any serious symptoms due to my short exposure to the gamer toxin.
Really lol’ed at my desk-bound at this
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The mode I audibly laughed at this…
Oh man, anyhow. This isn’t shocking unfortunately. To take a page from the late cracking Mitch Hedberg “I hope they just phone call me a dude that games”.
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Back in my Left 4 Expressionless days somebody told me they were gonna come up to my house, slit my throat, and rape my Mom (if she is hot).
Haven’t been into MP games in years considering of that if I am honest. Didn’t intendance about the killing me bit, information technology was the Mom matter that hit me.
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the thought of these articles is merely to generate clicks and garner stiff reactions when the takeaway should be “huh, i‘m curious to run across how further studies build off of this.” if you fifty-fifty read the damn paper you lot would see how pocket-size the sample size is. taking this study every bit close to testify is absurd.
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It took my college educational activity — which gave me both physical distance and cultural upheaval — to have whatsoever chance of getting out of information technology. I’yard not even sure I would’ve always found ResetEra bonny to hang out on as my main gaming discussion site if it weren’t for my college education finally giving me another perspective. I’one thousand non a perfect homo when it comes to having my political agreement and advocacy in good graces (I’m trying), but I’ve made a major shift away from the passive environment I grew up in.
And while I was a little shitstain of a youth, I did proudly identify with the characterization “gamer.” I try to keep my distance from it now. Information technology’s all the same a media culture that more oftentimes than not enables its worst qualities.
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That’southward what I thought for a long fourth dimension, too. But people are much more brazen and posting impaired, harmful shit on their own social media accounts or streaming live, and in both situations, their names and faces are exposed to everyone.
You are right, it’s totally normalized now.
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“Gamer” should just exist a neutral term like “picture goer” or “music listener” but assholes accept to ruin everything.
This definitely. People in here will go “I’d never call myself a gamer, ew” but it’s like… that’s an piece of cake shorthand for people to know the big topic I’m knowledgeable in. I do lots of other things, simply well, sometimes it would be overnice and easy to use it, but it has a shitty connotation, so I don’t.
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Isn’t it the fact that most of the engagements happening in the Gaming sphere is done in anonymity?
A pure sense of disinhibition(deindividuation maybe), in mass.
I hateful nosotros have literal world leaders, billionaires, and people all upwards and down the totem pole constantly shitposting online with their names and faces exposed.
It’s more similar people just don’t requite a fuck anymore.
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( Beat 35 games terminal year )
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I mean we have literal world leaders, billionaires, and people all up and down the totem pole constantly shitposting online with their names and faces exposed.Information technology’s more like people only don’t give a fuck anymore.
Yea information technology’south fucked.
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At present if y’all are a toxic person playing games, that really shouldn’t automatically brand all gamers exist toxic. Information technology’s just that the person who likes gaming is an asshole. I hateful if you lot were to look into their social media or existent life social groups, likely they are assholes in general. Sounds like information technology’due south not about the hobby but more than of the person.
I exercise feel the anonymity of gaming attracts assholes keep being toxic online simply I don’t come across a deviation if they used twitter or whatever to do the same and harass others because they feel like they are untouchable. (And privileged also)
Idk but think it’s a bigger problem within society. We know the more than the cyberspace remains a wild west like identify, people will just be jerks online. Unfortunately I feel that down the line this behavior will need to exist clamped down. Here in the US we have these idiots MAGATs because of the like shooting fish in a barrel of access to lies and deception. No one tin can stop it and so it keeps growing. People who are “in the right” tin’t do shit most it. Fifty-fifty if i day humanity needs to go out earth on from it dying, you have people on the left still taking these assholes with them which ultimately means these assholes go and spread their dumb shit on other planets. What I’one thousand saying is, this would need to be curved or regulated on a federal level where nosotros don’t have shitlords in power.
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Those who identify as ‘gamers’, they sicken me deeply
I’m really curios who exactly identifies hisself as gamer. I play a lot of videogames and listen to gaming podcasts, but it’southward a hobby. I wouldn’t place myself as gamer. Only in that location seems to be a lot of people out there which identify also much with there hobby. This perhaps also drives some of the toxic behavior in this industry (in respect to the consumers).
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Never heard of people strongly identifying as a golf player or knitter
People are weird
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self-place, does carry a lot of negative connotation and the correlation to racism and sexism is not the to the lowest degree bit surprising. Just if somebody were to say “Era is where gamers talk over games”, I don’t call back I’d disagree with that type of usage.
Source: https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-who-strongly-identify-as-%E2%80%98gamers%E2%80%99-more-prone-to-racism-and-sexism-study-suggests.647697/
