"The Receipts: Mid 2000's Wildly Anti Japanese X Play Era | Castle Super Beast Clips"

[kane_magus]

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I somehow entirely missed all this "the Western video game industry and game journalism industry were egregiously racist against the Japanese video game industry back in the mid 2000s" shit at the time it was happening. Seriously, I don't recall seeing or hearing or reading anything about all this extreme dumbfuckery that they're talking about here and now. This, despite the fact that I was living in Redmond, WA and attending DigiPen from 2004-2008 and lived there for another five years after that, which was kind of like being at ground zero, in a way. I'm very glad I managed to avoid all that crap.

But then, I never watched G4 or Xplay or Attack of the Show or any of that stuff to start with. Mainly because I only had cable TV for maybe a year into living in Redmond before dropping that shit because it was too fucking expensive, and during that time I was mostly just watching Cartoon Network (in the rare moments that I wasn't either busy with school work or playing video games, which was another reason I dropped the TV part entirely and only kept the broadband Internet package, because why pay [too much] for something I was hardly using). Though what little I did see of it here and there, it always struck me as rather insipid and inane.

The main thing I remember hearing about G4 and the like back then was mostly incels, of the type who went on to make up the vast bulk of GamerGate when that became a thing, whinging about how the female hosts like Olivia Munn and Morgan ("Genji's story is based on the Genji period of Japanese history. We're not exactly sure how, but can you really blame us because who knows anything about Japanese history? There were some samurai, they periodically killed themselves, a rat learned judo, and they invented a religion that sanctifies small trees, and fat guys wrestling. Then we nuked them. That's when they turned into a real country.") Webb[1] were supposedly "fake gamer girls" or whatever, which is neither here nor there, except to show that the morons watching these shows were at least as terrible as the shows themselves. *shrug*

[1] - Goes to show that Donald Trump shockingly wasn't the first blatantly racist piece of shit to ever exist. Whodathunkit.