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It was pretty common by mid 2000s when Xbox Live came out. And it was pretty common IRL in early 2000s too. I’ve seen plenty of n-word dropping and casual raci
by newen 6y ago
It was pretty common by mid 2000s when Xbox Live came out. And it was pretty common IRL in early 2000s too. I’ve seen plenty of n-word dropping and casual racism IRL as a kid in the early 2000s.
- SamReidHughes 6y agoI didn't get the same vibe on, I don't know, Slashdot back in the early 2000's. Misconduct took the form of Goatseing and GNAA posting and such. In video games and sports it's different. Making a sport of trash-talking in a video game (or, the NFL line of scrimmage) is a different thing than making lame posts on reddit. But with such behavior in video games, with teenagers playing them, combined with other online activity, it seems to have percolated. I don't know, it could just be blinders. But I had a YouTube video go fairly viral in 2006, and it didn't have the bad "omg the YouTube comments" experience that people started talking about some years later. (On the other hand I could complain it got comments on my clothing, comments about my race, and offers of marriage, except, well, I enjoyed all of them.)
- newen 6y agoI think it's more demographics shift in reddit and other social media users than percolation of behavior. As in the video game and sports people started using reddit more instead of the old programmer dominated crowd in reddit.
- SamReidHughes 6y agoYou could be right. It was ProgrammingHumor specifically in this case.