All this Felicia Day drama reminded me about how annoying all this intense backlash towards “fake gamers” (and more specifically “fake girl gamers”) is
Kaceytron is a really good example of the effects of this and she’s hilarious and pretty much a genius imo. She capitalizes off of the absurd amounts of seething rage from people on the internet in reaction to the very idea of a girl who says she enjoys video games but in reality…doesn’t know much about video games or is bad at them….!!!!  Her whole persona is this huge caricature that pokes fun at how much ridiculous anger there is online about this perceived problem of girls pretending to like games for attention or whatever and everybody fucking falls for it and actually yells at her as if they think she’s being genuine. They’re GIVING HER MONEY by getting mad, and it’s so ironic it’s almost painful.
Even in her videos that are extreeeemely obvious satire where she’s pumping up the “airheaded fake geek girl” act to 11, people respond to her angrily or make fun of her and it’s the funniest shit ever. They’re so ready to shit on her with volcanic rage like ME HARDCORE GAMER, FAKE GAMER BAD, ME SMASH that all critical thinking and self-awareness flies out the window. Aww yeah, a stupid girl on the internet, *cracks knuckles* time to lay down the law >:)

All she has to do is show her boobs and act ditzy and it presses all the right buttons for nerds who can’t stand that kind of thing for some reason and must retaliate by calling her a whore or a dumb slut, or else justice will go unserved. …Why do we care so much though?
Though I know now that it’s incredibly unreasonable and a huge waste of energy to be so hateful towards girls who don’t fit the stereotypical nerd image or seek male attention by liking video games, I can -kind of- see where these angry people are coming from, because I used to care!
When I was like 17, I thought “Oh no!!! With all these fake gamer booth babe attention hogs running around, nobody will take girls in this hobby seriously!!! people will think I’M just doing it for attention!!! They’re giving us a bad name!!!” But then, suddenly, I realized that’s fucking stupid and it literally doesn’t affect me in any way. If people assume I’m a fake illuminati lizard shadowgamer slut witch who lies about enjoying video games for some kind of personal gain, then that’s their problem, not mine. I like video games!!! I’m bad at them, but they’re really fun, and as long as they’re not being hurtful to others, I don’t care who shares this hobby with me.
If girls want to show their cleavage on cam while streaming some stupid MOBA, or take pictures where they’re slobbering all over their xbox controller and gazing at the camera with bedroom eyes (doesn’t anyone realize how unsanitary that is though) or discuss video games enthusiastically despite not being “hardcore” or “nerdy” enough then…Ok?? That’s their business. I think it’s silly and weird to seductively put a controller in your mouth or pose naked in a bed of video games, but I don’t HATE them or even feel the slightest bit of anger towards them for it.
Some of these girls are just trying to express themselves, even if it’s embarrassing for some people to look at (but who HASN’T done embarrassing stuff online…come on), but it’s not hurting anyone. It’s just a fucking hobby, you don’t need to grill them and make sure they’re 100% legit and fit all the qualifications, they’re not running for the presidency here. They’re not manipulating you into paying attention to them like some popularity succubus who cackles behind the scenes like, “Yes!!!! All these geeky boys are bowing down to ME, because I said I like video games!!! Muahahaha!!! Soon I will take over video games!!!!”
The vast majority of them actually…prepare urself for this….like video games!!!!! Holy shit! Probably even as much as you do! Can they name all 500000 pokemon? Are they ranked PLatinumultimatewhaterthefuck in LoL? Do they only play bad games, or easy games? Why do you care? There’s just as many embarrassing, unknowledgable tryhard dudes involved in the gaming community as there are females, and most of the time they fly under the radar without being accused of attention-whoring or lying by masses of enraged commenters. Big youtube personalities like DSP who get a lot of shit for being gigantic buffoons who suck at games exist, and yet this “fake girl gamer” thing is treated as a real problem that is “ruining the hobby” and girls on the internet can’t even mention liking games without people doubting them and spewing shit everywhere as if they need to prove themselves to these people.
And if you’re mad at how girls show off their boobs for views or pander to straight male gamers, why are you getting mad at the girl? Why aren’t you getting mad at a society where girls receive more attention just because of their sex appeal, or where everyone is so focused on whether or not a girl is fuckable that nothing else about them matters or holds any value. Video games are full of scantily-clad heroines showing their jiggly boobs and asses and this obviously sells well to the male demographic, so why are you shocked and appalled that women in the community want to feel more accepted or feel sexy by emulating that?
Yaya Han, a super popular cosplayer, is a genuinely nice person and a talented costume-maker, yet most of her fans just rudely comment about her boobs as if that’s her only selling point, (even though she’s said in the past that it makes her uncomfortable) and her haters only seem to focus on how they dislike that she shows off her body, and call her a whore because of this, or think this somehow makes her a faker.
Yaya Han isn’t perfect, there are reasonable critics of her out there, and fans who aren’t total sleezebags, but go on her facebook page for a few minutes and you’ll see what I mean : \  When she calls people out for being jerks, she’s met with even more assholes who cry about how she’s being “hypocritical”, because if she wears revealing cosplays, then she shouldn’t feel uncomfortable if tons of people reduce her to a sex object instead of treating her like a human!! Can people not understand how ridiculous that is?
I feel really bad for people like her, and I feel bad for people who can clearly see all this shitty stuff happening and honestly say “There isn’t a problem!”
Even when shitty stuff was happening to ME, when I was immature and so caught up in staying in with the cool crowd that I didn’t want to complain and be seen as one of “those” girls, I told myself that it wasn’t a problem. But now I know that no matter what I do, people will hate me for silly reasons like thinking I fake my voice or something, and I can’t make everyone happy, so I might as well just be real and talk about this stuff, cause who knows, maybe someone will read this and have the same epiphany I had years ago, or they’ll have a better perspective on the issue. That’s all I have 2 say

woeroboros:

honestly, i like ZERO PERCENT of the content felicia day has produced in her entire career.

so naturally i don’t respect her as a human being and want to make her life miserable!!

wait no i just don’t watch her unfunny webseries.

if her opinions were misaligned with my own though, boy let me tell you i’d be SEETHING with GAMER RAGE

moecuties:

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im trying to come up with good ferret names for when i get ferrets in a month or so and so far i think “cannoli” is a good one, but i don’t have any other ideas -_-

woeroboros:

the funniest part about this is that they’re doing exponentially more damage to the “gamer identity” than any “feminazi” ever could have if she tried her very very hardest