https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/18ftbe1/psa_update_we_are_open_to_your_suggestions/
The issue we are facing is a large number of comments from users being racist towards others because of cheating. Our mod queue has received a lot of reports regarding these from you. Reddit Admins have also had to remove a lot of these comments, so we know the issue is present.
lmao
Redditors:
“I want different rules for the Chinese but that’s not racist I just want one specific race of people treated differently”
It was around 2013 or so, I think.
Reddit had a deluge of people posting screeds about how “pay to win” was baked into Chinese culture as being acceptable. They’d lump it in with the anti micro transactions rage that hadn’t died yet at the time.
I think you might be onto something.
Puts it right before and around the time of gamergate. Really quite possible this was pushed by same groups that created that for far right purposes.
You think Bannon was involved? He made money off WoW gold farming and was involved in a white paper that used it as a case study.
In gamergate? Yes. There’s several things that link him, the start of it wasn’t manufactured but they jumped on the opportunity and it kick started the alt-right. In the chinese stuff? Maybe. Timing is similar enough for it to be something they might’ve tried.
I’ve been involved in enough huge major internet dramas now to realise just how few people can drive them.
That’s wild. There’s almost certainly a niche for somebody doing a TrueAnon but for gamergate and putting the cork board together.