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Mia Wong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6381 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Todd Harris, who is an extremely annoying guy but is also right, points out that this is more money than TV, movies, and music combined. So this is the largest entertainment market in the world by such an astounding margin in terms of just dollar value, right? Something like 3 billion people play video games.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Todd Harris, who is an extremely annoying guy but is also right, points out that this is more money than TV, movies, and music combined. So this is the largest entertainment market in the world by such an astounding margin in terms of just dollar value, right? Something like 3 billion people play video games.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Todd Harris, who is an extremely annoying guy but is also right, points out that this is more money than TV, movies, and music combined. So this is the largest entertainment market in the world by such an astounding margin in terms of just dollar value, right? Something like 3 billion people play video games.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

It's mostly mobile games, which makes the story I'm about to tell very weird because the actual people who play these games, again, it's a lot of mobile games. And it's also mostly people who are women and non-white. And yet, however, comma, when people think about, like, the gamer TM, you are not thinking about that. Yeah, like, as a political class... Yeah. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

It's mostly mobile games, which makes the story I'm about to tell very weird because the actual people who play these games, again, it's a lot of mobile games. And it's also mostly people who are women and non-white. And yet, however, comma, when people think about, like, the gamer TM, you are not thinking about that. Yeah, like, as a political class... Yeah. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

It's mostly mobile games, which makes the story I'm about to tell very weird because the actual people who play these games, again, it's a lot of mobile games. And it's also mostly people who are women and non-white. And yet, however, comma, when people think about, like, the gamer TM, you are not thinking about that. Yeah, like, as a political class... Yeah. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

You know, like when people say the word gamer, yeah, you're thinking of a bunch of weird incel right wing dipshits who are white and suck ass. And this is in large part because Gamergate was sort of the first like truly effective political mobilization of like the gamer as a political identity. And obviously this is, you know, this is a fascist movement.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

You know, like when people say the word gamer, yeah, you're thinking of a bunch of weird incel right wing dipshits who are white and suck ass. And this is in large part because Gamergate was sort of the first like truly effective political mobilization of like the gamer as a political identity. And obviously this is, you know, this is a fascist movement.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

You know, like when people say the word gamer, yeah, you're thinking of a bunch of weird incel right wing dipshits who are white and suck ass. And this is in large part because Gamergate was sort of the first like truly effective political mobilization of like the gamer as a political identity. And obviously this is, you know, this is a fascist movement.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Now, part of the reason this works, and we're going to be getting more into why this sort of works later, but part of the reason this works is that this is an extremely large group of people.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Now, part of the reason this works, and we're going to be getting more into why this sort of works later, but part of the reason this works is that this is an extremely large group of people.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Now, part of the reason this works, and we're going to be getting more into why this sort of works later, but part of the reason this works is that this is an extremely large group of people.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Because it's new, no one has sort of defined it as a political identity before, and it's also filled with people who are extremely insecure about their identity as a gamer because this is a relatively new medium, which is why everyone fucking either wants their games to be, like, treated like movies or some shit, or they want it to be sports.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Because it's new, no one has sort of defined it as a political identity before, and it's also filled with people who are extremely insecure about their identity as a gamer because this is a relatively new medium, which is why everyone fucking either wants their games to be, like, treated like movies or some shit, or they want it to be sports.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Because it's new, no one has sort of defined it as a political identity before, and it's also filled with people who are extremely insecure about their identity as a gamer because this is a relatively new medium, which is why everyone fucking either wants their games to be, like, treated like movies or some shit, or they want it to be sports.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Because those are sort of cultural things with enormous amounts of money and then that are taken like quote unquote more seriously. Yeah. Yeah. And so the effect of this is that the cultural affect of being a gamer is extremely important to these people. And this is true, actually, really both on the left as much as it is on the right. There are a lot of like sort of political figures.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Because those are sort of cultural things with enormous amounts of money and then that are taken like quote unquote more seriously. Yeah. Yeah. And so the effect of this is that the cultural affect of being a gamer is extremely important to these people. And this is true, actually, really both on the left as much as it is on the right. There are a lot of like sort of political figures.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

Because those are sort of cultural things with enormous amounts of money and then that are taken like quote unquote more seriously. Yeah. Yeah. And so the effect of this is that the cultural affect of being a gamer is extremely important to these people. And this is true, actually, really both on the left as much as it is on the right. There are a lot of like sort of political figures.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

I don't know. You're sort of like online people who come out of gaming, like H-Bomber guy, I guess is an example, like Hassan to some extent. There's just like a lot of people who are like gamers. And then they sort of like,

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 175

I don't know. You're sort of like online people who come out of gaming, like H-Bomber guy, I guess is an example, like Hassan to some extent. There's just like a lot of people who are like gamers. And then they sort of like,