It’s good to see companies like Blizzard, Ubisoft, and others to varying extents go beyond rainbow washing and actually do something about toxicity on their games and platforms. I wonder how much...
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It’s good to see companies like Blizzard, Ubisoft, and others to varying extents go beyond rainbow washing and actually do something about toxicity on their games and platforms. I wonder how much of this is sustained throughout the year, after the Pride Month media lense is taken off.
On the one hand there’s platforms who are just exploiting Pride. There’s the mercenary rainbow larping of YouTube and Reddit that promote or even insulate bigotry of all kinds on their platform, which makes me sick.
On the other hand are platforms who need to go much further. The end of Pride this year overlapped with GDQ. This GDQ, as with all GDQs, even while Twitch was featuring LGBT streamers, GDQ chat was seeing who could fly under the radar while hurling transphobic abuse at streamers raising money for charity. Obviously so much more has to be done about toxicity in the gaming community.
It’s good to see companies like Blizzard, Ubisoft, and others to varying extents go beyond rainbow washing and actually do something about toxicity on their games and platforms. I wonder how much of this is sustained throughout the year, after the Pride Month media lense is taken off.
On the one hand there’s platforms who are just exploiting Pride. There’s the mercenary rainbow larping of YouTube and Reddit that promote or even insulate bigotry of all kinds on their platform, which makes me sick.
On the other hand are platforms who need to go much further. The end of Pride this year overlapped with GDQ. This GDQ, as with all GDQs, even while Twitch was featuring LGBT streamers, GDQ chat was seeing who could fly under the radar while hurling transphobic abuse at streamers raising money for charity. Obviously so much more has to be done about toxicity in the gaming community.