So I want to discuss a recent internet phenomena I keep observing; the escalation of an issue to ridiculous proportions based on the reaction to the reaction...
OK that's wasn't as clear as I thought, time for an example. I was trawling facebook recently and a female presenter of an Australian video game review TV show posted a selfie of herself on holiday. She was in a bikini but you could only see her shoulder.
Anyway, I started reading through the comments and I saw dozens of "The people asking for marriage are so creepy" or "You guys proposing to her need to get laid" etc. Curios, and due to the fact there weren't that many comments at the time I decided to find out how many marriage proposals there were.
I didn't find any comment that mentioned marriage. There was one that said "I love you" which felt more like a reference to a Scrubs joke than anything serious, and a significant number of "Damn, u hot!!!" but no marriage requests.
Now this isn't going to get blown up into a big issue but it's fascinating that so many can continue to propagate a sentiment that never existed.
Another example is that of the Polygon review of Dragons Crown and that whole Fiasco. People made such a big deal about the nerd rage in the comments, but again I read the comments, most were civil, presenting their reasons as to why they felt the review was bad. Sure their were some that acted like trolls but they were insignificant, to pull a number out of my arse less than 5%, yet it spiraled to ever greater heights as this big issue of gamers not being able to handle a different opinion.
I originally chalked this up to critics being overly sensitive, not being able to handle criticism of their work and banding together, but now I'm not so sure.
So Escapists...
Agree? Disagree?
OK that's wasn't as clear as I thought, time for an example. I was trawling facebook recently and a female presenter of an Australian video game review TV show posted a selfie of herself on holiday. She was in a bikini but you could only see her shoulder.
Anyway, I started reading through the comments and I saw dozens of "The people asking for marriage are so creepy" or "You guys proposing to her need to get laid" etc. Curios, and due to the fact there weren't that many comments at the time I decided to find out how many marriage proposals there were.
I didn't find any comment that mentioned marriage. There was one that said "I love you" which felt more like a reference to a Scrubs joke than anything serious, and a significant number of "Damn, u hot!!!" but no marriage requests.
Now this isn't going to get blown up into a big issue but it's fascinating that so many can continue to propagate a sentiment that never existed.
Another example is that of the Polygon review of Dragons Crown and that whole Fiasco. People made such a big deal about the nerd rage in the comments, but again I read the comments, most were civil, presenting their reasons as to why they felt the review was bad. Sure their were some that acted like trolls but they were insignificant, to pull a number out of my arse less than 5%, yet it spiraled to ever greater heights as this big issue of gamers not being able to handle a different opinion.
I originally chalked this up to critics being overly sensitive, not being able to handle criticism of their work and banding together, but now I'm not so sure.
So Escapists...
Agree? Disagree?
