>>513300218
>12 years
Oh you silly silly person.

Rhetoric against counter culture has always been a thing, gaming has always been a punching bag from bad actors who want to have an easy scapegoat to blame all of society's ills on.

Before that we had Fox News saying gaming was becoing too sexy because of mass effect's romance options, before that you had jack thompson claming GTA caused kids to become violent, Collumbine was blamed on doom and quake, there was also the moral panic about Night Trap and Mortal Kombat even earlier pushed by democrats, which lead to the ESRB, and even arcades were blamed for delinquency in the 80s

And its not just gaming, they pulled the same shit with Rap and Rock music in the late 80s as well, and of course the satanic panic against Dungeons and Dragons.

You will always have people with retarded monkey brains defaulting to tribalistic behavior, blaming all their problems, the breakdown of all social good on the other, because they see other people having fun without them and that makes them mad.

This is ironically why social clubs start to form, like the Free Masons, you can join them, they're not hard to get into, just don't be a dickhead and you'll get it, but there is also a reason why the Free Masons have a lot of conspiracies about them, because they do a good job filtering out seething faggots, and seething faggots will blame anything but themselves for being gatekept.