I just realized that what gamers (in the most pejorative sense of the term) like most in hard games and multiplayer games isn't actually playing games, but bragging rights, either from conquering a hard obstacle or beating other humans, which explains a lot about their toxicity.

@hypolite
Imagine taking banter and teasing seriously.

@matrix Imagine yelling "subsribe to PewDiePie" before shooting a mosque on live video.

Closer to us, imagine posting a snarky reply to a post about toxicity.

@hypolite
Imagine thinking that yelling a popular meme before shooting up a place somehow ties the subject of that meme to the shooting or that it's somehow the consequence of jokes on the internet.