• corroded@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    What’s the deal with gaming videos? Do game streamers tend to be Nazis? Seems like a strange place to push right-wing propaganda.

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      2 days ago

      Look up gamergate and Steve Bannon. The gamer to Nazi pipeline is, unfortunately, very real.

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      2 days ago

      Seems like a strange place to push right-wing propaganda.

      Gamers are easy to rile up, already have exposure to a lot of counter culture language in VC, and generally young or ignorant enough that they can’t see the obvious propaganda they’re being fed. Add into that content creators that intermix rightwing talking points and you can slowly poison their minds into becoming Nazi shitbags.

      As the other commenter mentioned, gamergate is where all this shit first came up, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t there with the people who fell for the poison. I was just aware enough of what I was seeing to pull away from that culture before it really poisoned my mind.

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      2 days ago

      I think there’s not much Nazi gamer shit out there because it’s incredibly rare for any to slip into my recommendations.

      But if I let YouTube go it would probably take me from normal people like anyaustin to hype people like xQc. And then from there all the popular people can show up, including asmonmold. And people like him are legit brain rot.

      Edit: for overwhelming Nazi content in your feed, try gun YouTubers. I binged gun Jesus and nothing. Watched Brandon Herrera (spelling?) build aks and look at cursed weapon memes and somehow that means I’m a flaming Trumper.

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        Iv watched tarkov stuff, Brandon Herrera and gun Jesus never seen anything close to Nazi stuff in my recommended. Hell most of my feed is a ping pong of gun stuff, femboys and trans creators.

        I watched ONE freeze drier video and it took a month to get YouTube to stop giving me Nazi pepper paranoia videos.

        I should have headed the warning of the good Midwestern man known as technology connections. ):