The Angry Video Game Nerd |
There's a long and standing tradition
in popular culture that's held its own for decades: nerds are not
social beings, they feel better in solitude inside their video game
basements, a shrine reserved for themselves and a few extremely close
friends. Video game YouTube stars have capitalised on this trope.
Even though recent studies have found
that gamers are in fact very social persons and not
sexually starved animals, as
the online gaming community knows quite well, YouTube stardom
seems associated with a general “expectation” of what a hardcore
gamer should aspire to be. Video games, posters, collectible toys and
paraphernalia that appear on-camera function as a tool for
credibility inside the gaming universe. Generally, the bigger the
video game collection, the more credibility the gamer acquires.
GameSack |