(Keep in mind that I am focusing on the award show, and *not* the Youtube personalities in question) I know it's just a marketing event and everything, but the Game Awards is watched by many and announced on a lot of main gaming platforms (PSN, Steam, etc.). And with their Trending Gamer award they awarded it to Totalbiscuit back in 2014 (only a couple of months after that hate movement had blown off), who has time and time again proved how bigoted and intolerant he can be.
And now in 2016 they awarded it to someone whose audience is primarily Trump voters, who doesn't think fag is a slur, who preaches unity and working together after Trump, who thinks transgender characters should be written well in order to exist in games, who preaches "both sides", "why can't we love each other?" when confronted with Gaming's version of Trump supporters, misogynists, white supremacists, neonazis, etc.. Namely Boogie2988, who seems to mean well, but doesn't understand that there cannot be two sides between bigotry and tolerance, and that having bigots in your audience without taking a stand is a tacit/neutral approval of such politics. And it's quite ironic that Intel with their financial support of diversity initiatives in tech are associated with the award when it goes to someone who is implcitly okay with people who want to exclude or dominate other groups in video games and society in general.
I don't know who selects the nominees as I think the voting process for this category is mostly dependent on public voting, but I find it worrying that the people involved in the decision-making *and* nomination process, either ignore and thereby implicitly support, or actually agree with the winners. The award will help channel unknowing people who will be exposed to rhetoric espoused by Breitbart and Gamergaters.
I don't want to talk about Totalbiscuit or boogie, as they have proved they won't listen or change their ways, but I do care about a marketing award show who keep on signalboosting personas who can lead unfamiliar people into the propaganda arms of Trump voters, Breitbart, white supremacists, neonazis, etc. Geoff Keighley and whoever is in charge need to do something instead of being silent and closing their eyes on the damaging aspects of their nominees. And that's not speaking of the fact that 4 out of 5 of the Trending Gamers nominees were a blur of white dudes (when you have plenty of examples of other people doing amazing work that deserve recognition).
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And now in 2016 they awarded it to someone whose audience is primarily Trump voters, who doesn't think fag is a slur, who preaches unity and working together after Trump, who thinks transgender characters should be written well in order to exist in games, who preaches "both sides", "why can't we love each other?" when confronted with Gaming's version of Trump supporters, misogynists, white supremacists, neonazis, etc.. Namely Boogie2988, who seems to mean well, but doesn't understand that there cannot be two sides between bigotry and tolerance, and that having bigots in your audience without taking a stand is a tacit/neutral approval of such politics. And it's quite ironic that Intel with their financial support of diversity initiatives in tech are associated with the award when it goes to someone who is implcitly okay with people who want to exclude or dominate other groups in video games and society in general.
I don't know who selects the nominees as I think the voting process for this category is mostly dependent on public voting, but I find it worrying that the people involved in the decision-making *and* nomination process, either ignore and thereby implicitly support, or actually agree with the winners. The award will help channel unknowing people who will be exposed to rhetoric espoused by Breitbart and Gamergaters.
I don't want to talk about Totalbiscuit or boogie, as they have proved they won't listen or change their ways, but I do care about a marketing award show who keep on signalboosting personas who can lead unfamiliar people into the propaganda arms of Trump voters, Breitbart, white supremacists, neonazis, etc. Geoff Keighley and whoever is in charge need to do something instead of being silent and closing their eyes on the damaging aspects of their nominees. And that's not speaking of the fact that 4 out of 5 of the Trending Gamers nominees were a blur of white dudes (when you have plenty of examples of other people doing amazing work that deserve recognition).
@Mods: Please accept my apologies and lock this thread if this is not an appropriate topic or a discussion to have.
