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Elon Musk appearance at Valorant Champions tournament met with boos, crowd chanting 'bring back Twitter'

www.pcgamer.com Elon Musk appearance at Valorant Champions tournament met with boos, crowd chanting 'bring back Twitter'

Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.

News @lemmy.world Elon Musk appearance at Valorant Champions tournament met with boos, crowd chanting 'Bring back Twitter'

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I'm so confused why they thought the Valorant crowd would like Elon. The only people that still like him are crypto bros and edgy twitter users

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- "Gamers" are notoriously obnoxious shithead edgelords. Like, there is very much a reason that "Gamergate" is somewhat widely considered to be a test run of "the alt-right" and that white supremacist recruiting tactics have been widely used among "Gamers" for decades.
  
  All of which is basically musk's fanbase.
  
  That said: I am not familiar with the valorant playerbase as I avoid riot games. But there is a very strong "influencer" aspect of things with a lot of the more "wholesome" streamers either being affiliated with teams or outright owning teams. Albeit, "wholesome" largely means folk like Disguised Toast who are (generally well meaning-ish) edgelords themselves or centrists who are (generally) smart enough to not talk "politics" like Ludwig/Charlie. But... the bar is low.
  
  So I can definitely see how the crowd wouldn't be eager for "ha ha ha. HH HH, Soros Soros" humor
  
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  You are equating a large group of People with the tiny portion focused upon by media.
  
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  There are no capital-G Gamers following Valorant.
  
  Remember that video games are now the largest media industry in the world. Remember that gamergate happened almost 10 years ago now, and that Valorant is only 3 years old.
  
  The kids playing and watching Valorant probably don't even know enough about the controversy to make the connection. They just know an asshole when they see one.
  
  Honestly I don't even think capital-G Gamers play games anymore. It's an aging demographic that is too bitter and stupid to keep up.
  
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  “Gamers” are notoriously obnoxious shithead edgelords.
  
  Especially those playing competitive pvp games.
  
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Twitter's dead, fools.

You don't want twitter back, you want Elon gone, if you only cared about the name, then you deserve X.

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- I find the whole situation rather amusing.
  
  So many people on "X" apparently hate Elon and yet they refuse to leave the platform. It's pathetic.
  
  The world would be a better place if the average man had a backbone.
  
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  Always keep in mind that most people are not on Twitter/X
  
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  It's the same on all social media though. People on reddit that hate spez, zuckerburg haters on facebook/instagram. It's a weird thing, honestly.
  
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- I don't care about Twitter either way. I love this just for the fuck with Musk aspect.
  
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