What is it about the gaming industry? It seems in a league of its own with stubbornness, ideologically driven, and cowardice.
This is irrespective of Avellone. I have no idea what is true or isn't. And I don't particularly care about this story all that much aside from not wanting an innocent person to be railroaded, whether it's him or these girls.
But I've noticed that in the game industry in particular there is this extreme nature of other aspects of society ratcheted up to 100. In most other fields, if someone was accused of something, of course you'd get the few people who will just virtue signal and believe the whole story immediately without any proof no matter how absurd the story is. Like someone could accuse a famous actor of being a serial killer and killing 10 of this person's friends and you'd have people respond on social media like "omggg that's so horrible, arrest this monster!" but most people in the industry wouldn't respond at all, would wait for the facts, or would stick up for them. Like they did with Chris Pratt.
But the gaming industry, it's a unique beast. It doesn't matter what anyone is accused of, how vague, how unbelievable, the entire industry will not only believe it and do so as publicly and as virtue signal-y as possible, but also try as hard as they can to ruin this person's life.
Why is the game industry so unique in that regard? Is there something that accompanies being a gamer with the desire to act this way? Because most other industries and communities are not as extreme as the gaming community. I mean, when a massive chunk of an industry hates a guy like Colin Moriarty, who's never done a bad thing to anyone, and is about as uncontroversial as it gets, you know there's a problem.
Meanwhile, compared to the sports industry/community where you have a football player DeShaun Watson accused of sexual improprieties and/or assault by like 100 women, and it's been kinda "we'll wait for the facts to come out" by most people. If that was the gaming industry? I couldn't imagine. I just don't get the gaming industry.