The only fake gamer girl we've ever seen is elon musk
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Brand New SentenceTokyogurl: The star who faked her career and set women’s esports back
To say fake gamer girls don't exist is a braindumb statement. Just because gatekeeping incels exist doesn't mean that fake gamer girls don't exist. Like, a large majority of Twitch is "gamer girl fantasy lets chat" streams. Anyone can see how it's great from a marketing standpoint to be the novel and fetishized "gamer girl". It does well for a target audience.
How are you gonna say fake gamer girls don't exist, like SSSniperwolf is right there. Belle Delphine exists.
I don't know why more girls aren't represented in pro level play. It's probably because of the toxic nature of gamers (probably). Because everyone of them will be compared to Tokyogurl, to SSSniperwolf, to Pokemane. Girls who sold out being good at playing for being sexy while playing.
The guitar world has those phony women, too. They dress real sexy, and play a solo on the guitar or bass. A few are pretty good, some are awful, but most are just faking it.
Grace Bowers is the lone exception. She started posting when she was about 14, and since was pretty good, and really cute, she was strongly encouraged. When she hit 18, she went pro in a big way, even though she still had a long way to go to be a true pro level player.
She's gotten a lot better, probably because she's met and played with EVERYBODY by now. Imagine how good you'd get if every day you got another guitar lesson from another legend.
I was also literally going to say SSSniperWolf lol.
Yeah, being a pick me by way of pretending to love all the video games, to put on a show for the boys, ... while in actuality just being a cut throat sociopathic narcissist...
pretty big niche.
Literally cosplaying as female video game characters is a substantial niche in male targeted porn now, ... its a way of appealing to an audience.
The roughly equivalent counterpart would be the performatively feminist nice guy ally type dude. Apparently another term for this is 'matcha male'.
They share in common that they superficially adopt the aesthic/performance of what their target demo seems to like. It's cynical, not genuine; affect as strategy and tactics, not authentic.
Obviously there are plenty of women who really do love video games, obviously there are plenty of men who are real feminists.
But there are plenty of fakes as well.
Probably bc of how toxic the industry is from both management and the players. I’ve seen so many accounts of harassment, abuse, and exploitation.
tons of good research
I'm taking a HUGE grain of salt on that. Not saying there isn't research, but "good"? That's questionable. And I'm not even saying wrong... just extremely suspect. This reeks of misusing science to justify sexism. Giving every stinky gamer incel something to pull up as their proof.
I would need to see a HUGE amount of independent research on this.
Only thing I've ever seen that indicates a substantial sex disparity when it comes to gaming is that women, significantly more than men, commonly tend to get disoriented more quickly and to a more substantial degree, from VR gameplay sessions.
That this is a thing, is well documented, but explanations are not widedly agreed on, or well understood, afaik.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10805816/
https://gitnux.org/vr-motion-sickness-statistics/
https://motionsicklab.com/blog/vr-motion-sickness-women
The second link there has it as a 2:1 ratio that women are more likely to get VR motion sick than men.
Proposed explanations include:
VR headsets don't fit women's heads as well, and getting a precise IPD config that remains stable is critical.
Hormonal cycles influence the vesitublar system, the ability to maintain and regulate balance.
Generally higher rates of anxiety from other kinds of motion sickness inducing activities being carried forward to VR, as previous indications of significant motion sickness well predict VR simulator disorientation.
If there wasn't rampant sexism in the industry, your "tons of good research" wouldn't exist
Twitch is loaded with them, as much as I like this meme.
Yeah the goal was misinterpreted. Its not to "impress" them its to get them to donate money, because sex sells when your target audience is gooners.
Also this user just outed themselves as a fucking idiot by just calling gaming in general a "loser nerd hobby" as if they werent posting on tumblr....
this user just outed themselves as a fucking idiot by just calling gaming in general a “loser nerd hobby”
It's Bait
They seem to do pretty well, good for them :)
So many people discovered you can get more attention complaining about other gamers than actually playing the damned things.
Doesn't help that gaming itself has been stuffed with AI slop and GACHA crap.
You can't play Pong without going through ten pay walls and a hundred scams.
I think SsniperWolf on YouTube was also a fake gamer girl.
I believe at the height of her popularity she was having her boyfriend or manager or whoever actually play the game while she would just sit and watch and act like she was playing it.
Junglejim is the kind of guy who thinks hookers actually like him.
Video games are a pretty hard thing to fake being into. It's just downstream of imbeciles who can't imagine people are into their "space" without liking exactly the same objects in that space as them (same thing happens with fitness folk, history people, filmbros)
So this goes two ways I think. There are dumbasses who think that any girl who isn't amazing at games is just faking it, rather than them just being a normal casual+ player. Then there are some egirl weird cultural-appropriation style gamergirl stolen valor thing when a girl borrows the aesthetics and online lingo (and memes etc) without actually playing at all... Idk. It's definitely a thing.
With that said, I've never heard the term gamergirl be used derogatory, personally; most of the guys I heard talk about a gamergirl were talking like they just got an SSS tier gacha pull just by meeting someone of the opposite gender who shared their interests...
So maybe this is some fake gamerboy chudding or the incels who use it that way, and I just haven't been exposed much? But it's not hard to imagine since girls take a lot of shit for just existing. The spaces I'm in are pretty chill these days and MMORPGs were always better than FPS,... The "no girls on the internet" thing persists (with some understandable reasons) but haven't heard anything about sandwiches or kitchens in a while which is nice.
Gamer girl was more of an insult in the 90s-2010s. Gaming is still full of misogyny but the gatekeeping is a lot less prominent. It was really bad back then.
I'm a girl who plays games. It's still pretty bad. If I said I was a girl, I wasn't. If I got on voice, someone was playing for me. I refused to use video. Now, apparently, I'm a dude playing with a voice mod.
Sorry if it sounded like I was downplaying how it is now, I swear that wasn't my intent! There is certainly no shortage of assholes.
I was just saying that early on it was like EVERY girl got dogpiled EVERY time they spoke. I've had women in my gaming group since TFC was current and it wasn't until maybe 2016 (overwatch) when they felt comfortable openly speaking in game.
Oh no worries, I didn't take it like that. Just saying in my experience it's just a different kind of bad. People can be more subtle, but it's still there.
Then there are some egirl weird cultural-appropriation style gamergirl stolen valor thing when a girl borrows the aesthetics and online lingo (and memes etc) without actually playing at all… Idk. It’s definitely a thing
It is definitely a thing tbh, I'm glad that people have called it out. It's not a thing that's affected my dating life, however much that counts for
