I remember seeing JonTron videos back in 2011, well before the 2015 gamergate era. Even back then he’d make offhand remarks about how tough it was being White, how badly women treat men, etc.
You seem to mistake cause and effect. JonTron was an racist and misogynistic asshole because that’s who he was. He wasn’t doing that because he was trying to tap into some kind of audience as a trick.
And he has been largely forgotten because of his behavior and image. People ditched him and moved on. GameGrumps cut him out a long time ago.
“Woke” didn’t really become a right-wing attack in the gaming and movie spheres until pretty recently.
Even before that, there was this whole corporate wokeness marketing trope that really drove the concept into the ground, like Popular Movie But Female and adopting it as a business strategy. It’s like kids all running with this popular meme, only for parents to sudden adopt it and it’s not cool any more. So, right-wing spheres to pick it off of the ground, dust it off, and just carry that energy forward, which is unfortunately what they are good at. Leftists are shit at messaging. Like, really really shit at messaging.
And now, you can’t even tell if people are being critical of “wokeness” as a right-wing attack or as a response to corporate synergy marketing bullshit. Because the latter might actually be a good argument, but it’s so abused that most just now assume the former.
Let’s not forget that Russia was playing both sides. As soon as GamerGate started, a bunch of games “journalists” all posted garbage articles like this, in the same day, pushing this shitty “gamers are now dead” message, fanning the flames even further and basically just pissing everybody off.
Sorry, I’m a gamer. I’m still alive, even ten years later. Gamers ain’t dead.
And then CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and the rest all ran with it to treat it like a horse race, which is exactly what the Russian experiment was trying to achieve.
Articles like this sound a lot like that garbage back then. Stirring shit in the wrong directions without proper context or thought, using dubious connection points.
I don’t inhabit those spaces, so I’m only going off the biggest names.
Obviously. The list you rattled off looks like you did a Google or YouTube search on “gaming influencer” and picked a few random names. Don’t spout off uneducated opinions about subjects you don’t know anything about.
Rich people tend to lean right. Is this the lesson you’re trying to illustrate here?
Who runs the verification service? How is that paid for? How do you know the verification service is trustworthy? What happens if they have a blue checkmark and it turns out it’s not accurate?
You can be anything. Any company. Any person. Any organization. On any platform. Anything.
It’s been a while since I played with it, but the Dynamic Prompts extension has some options for creating random prompts and combinations. It’s neat to have it run through a hundred images to see what it creates, find the interesting ones, and then focus on that prompt for some more refined images. Or upscale and inpaint/outpaint the ones you want.
Only off by a few orders of 10^x.
Typical shit journalism can’t be bothered to look at the units on their calculator.