So, pewdiepie played osu.
The osu-communities general response regarding this has been overwhelmingly negative, ranging from mildly expressed disapproval to open hostility and hate.
#osu has been going nuts for hours. Insult after insult being gushed out, beyond hope or moderation.
To tackle the core of the matter: Is pewdiepies fanbase younger than the osu-community? Not necessarily, but even if:
Does this difference in average age and the correlation between young age and immaturity legitimize disdainful behavior towards the pewdie-com?
I suspect that the current development was not the result of people asking themselves this question, and then, after thoughtfully calculating the pros and cons, coming to the rational conclusion, that hate is the best tool to drive these children away for the sake of saving the community.
After questioning around 5 of the people that spammed "cancer", none of them had discernible views as to why they did it.
I came to the conclusion, that the majority of hateful people merely jumped on the bandwagon of hate, without thinking about reasons or consequences - a classical example of hive mind behavior.
Why do people jump on the bandwagon? Because it feels good. It feels good to create an out-group by labeling them and sharing that label (pewdie-fans), then blatantly generalizing over this out-group (they are all 12 year old kids and immature), and then lastly hate on that out-group while feeling that the own group shares a common cause.
It is about being part of a movement and feeling superior by putting others down.
The thing that gets me is, that the people who flame #osu to death and use "cancer" in every 3rd sentence to refer to said children, exhibit the traits that they despise so much themselves.
It is not exactly a mark of maturity to slander a group of interested and open children on the basis that THEY might be close to the raging CS kid stereotype.
To wrap it up:
If you act that way, you aren't exactly setting a good example. If you complain about young new players being cancerous per se, you are the cancer. You make people feel unwanted, when all they want is to try out a fun new game, enjoy the music and maybe make some friends in the progress.
This day delivered a particularly ugly example of how hive-minds can pull in an ugly direction, without logical basis or thought, unified and driven by the common interest in feelings of superiority, elicited by defaming an innocent group by accusing them of being cancerous in their totality over and over again.
Well done.
The osu-communities general response regarding this has been overwhelmingly negative, ranging from mildly expressed disapproval to open hostility and hate.
#osu has been going nuts for hours. Insult after insult being gushed out, beyond hope or moderation.
To tackle the core of the matter: Is pewdiepies fanbase younger than the osu-community? Not necessarily, but even if:
Does this difference in average age and the correlation between young age and immaturity legitimize disdainful behavior towards the pewdie-com?
I suspect that the current development was not the result of people asking themselves this question, and then, after thoughtfully calculating the pros and cons, coming to the rational conclusion, that hate is the best tool to drive these children away for the sake of saving the community.
After questioning around 5 of the people that spammed "cancer", none of them had discernible views as to why they did it.
I came to the conclusion, that the majority of hateful people merely jumped on the bandwagon of hate, without thinking about reasons or consequences - a classical example of hive mind behavior.
Why do people jump on the bandwagon? Because it feels good. It feels good to create an out-group by labeling them and sharing that label (pewdie-fans), then blatantly generalizing over this out-group (they are all 12 year old kids and immature), and then lastly hate on that out-group while feeling that the own group shares a common cause.
It is about being part of a movement and feeling superior by putting others down.
The thing that gets me is, that the people who flame #osu to death and use "cancer" in every 3rd sentence to refer to said children, exhibit the traits that they despise so much themselves.
It is not exactly a mark of maturity to slander a group of interested and open children on the basis that THEY might be close to the raging CS kid stereotype.
To wrap it up:
If you act that way, you aren't exactly setting a good example. If you complain about young new players being cancerous per se, you are the cancer. You make people feel unwanted, when all they want is to try out a fun new game, enjoy the music and maybe make some friends in the progress.
This day delivered a particularly ugly example of how hive-minds can pull in an ugly direction, without logical basis or thought, unified and driven by the common interest in feelings of superiority, elicited by defaming an innocent group by accusing them of being cancerous in their totality over and over again.
Well done.
And I don't doubt that they are. This post is targeted not at the whole of the osu community, but at the people that did jump on the bandwagon. I can't say if it was the majority, but skimming through youtube, reddit and #osu, I can say that they weren't "just" a loud minority. There was really a lot of hate. So much, that I wanted to address it. There have been people that dealt with the influx of new players in a helpful and constructive manner as well, of course, but this post is not about them.The Gambler wrote:
Again, some cancers are very territorial.
