Man, I just wanna enjoy my video games in peace

[The_Yoda]

DekutheEvilClown said:

A large amount of the hate in the video game arena right now is toxic culture wars. That can’t be fixed by simply ignoring it and saying you don’t want to discuss it, or trying to minimize it by erroneously claiming the “other side” is just as bad.

A day after the Horizon: Hunters Gathering game was revealed there are over a dozen videos on YouTube attacking it for having a fat character, calling it woke and “Modern Audience”. There are some content creators that I looked at, after seeing their video for the game, and they only made ragebait videos. Every single video they ever made had some buzzword like Woke, DEI or Modern audience in the title. This is very much at the core of the issue.

Some people getting offended by a character like EVE is not the same. I doubt there are dozens of videos on YouTube calling the game misogynistic slop, made by people that make nothing but ragebait videos and feeding constant hate and negative discourse.

I wonder how sure we can be of that ... not really a question but unless you are browsing videos autonomously can you be sure that the algorithm isn't just feeding you what you engage with?  Are you sure you are getting a solid sample of all the videos out there?  This site is about as social media as I get so I am pretty ignorant about what content Tik-Tok, Instagram, Facebook, ect tosses at it's users.  I suppose about the only thing I use a bit that feeds you stuff would be YouTube and I can see a content bias in what it throws up next for me to watch in short form videos. Makes me feel like I am being manipulated.

Edits: didn't proofread before posting ... ugg

Last edited by The_Yoda - on 11 February 2026