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Topic	Smash Bros competitive community is getting #MeToo'd
ExThaNemesis 07/08/20 4:15:23 PM #317:	colliding posted... honestly I think this is more a part of "con-culture" (i.e. conventions) than it is strictly related to the smash community. anime cons, comic-cons, vg cons are all breeding grounds for predators. you take a traditionally marginalized subgroup of people - many of whom with difficulties in "normal social life," and give them a weekend of free reign where they're guaranteed to be around people with similar interests and it's a recipe for disaster. I've hung out with a lot of "nerds" in my life - gaming, comics, anime, even creative writers - and the second con-season comes around a switch gets flipped and they become uber aggressive and sexual. the stories I could tell about dragon con parties I went to in my teens. not defending these people in any way, but trying to argue that there's something poisonous in the smash community is not quite right. It's a larger issue in geek fandom to be honest. Been going to video game/anime cons for almost a decade now and it's sad to say that as welcoming and fantastic as these communities can be, there is definitely this darker side. Last year a bunch of bigger name cosplay photographers started getting called out for this stuff. And every few months it seems like a bigger name in the Con Party Scene gets called out for it too. --- "undertale hangs out with mido" - ZFS Smash Ultimate Switch Code: SW-6933-1523-8505 <cite>ExThaNemesis posted [p:941849461] in Smash Bros... [t:78817658]...</cite> <quote>colliding posted... </cite> <quote>honestly I think this is more a part of "con-culture" (i.e. conventions) than it is strictly related to the smash community. anime cons, comic-cons, vg cons are all breeding grounds for predators. you take a traditionally marginalized subgroup of people - many of whom with difficulties in "normal social life," and give them a weekend of free reign where they're guaranteed to be around people with similar interests and it's a recipe for disaster. I've hung out with a lot of "nerds" in my life - gaming, comics, anime, even creative writers - and the second con-season comes around a switch gets flipped and they become uber aggressive and sexual. the stories I could tell about dragon con parties I went to in my teens. not defending these people in any way, but trying to argue that there's something poisonous in the smash community is not quite right. It's a larger issue in geek fandom to be honest.</quote> Been going to video game/anime cons for almost a decade now and it's sad to say that as welcoming and fantastic as these communities can be, there is definitely this darker side. Last year a bunch of bigger name cosplay photographers started getting called out for this stuff. And every few months it seems like a bigger name in the Con Party Scene gets called out for it too. --- "undertale hangs out with mido" - ZFS Smash Ultimate Switch Code: SW-6933-1523-8505</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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