Showing posts with label Famous video gamer from YouTube basements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Famous video gamer from YouTube basements. Show all posts

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Gamer credibility and the nerdy basement aesthetic


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.

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