@texasgoldrush: I didn't say the games were less genuine. I said those acts weren't. I called them advertising/pandering. That's how they're not genuine. Streamers made the game popular, not the other way around. AOC isn't playing to simply have some genuine fun. Everybody knows that. Maybe if she played some game she loved as a child and just wanted to show it off, or just casually game and chat (like a "genuine" streamer), then yeah. I wouldn't have anything to say about that. But politicians are suddenly hopping on popular games right before an election. Does that reeeeeeally feel genuine to you? I have absolutely nothing against AOC as a politician. Doesn't bother me one bit. But I am allowed to call this disingenuous on an article stating the opposite.
@texasgoldrush: I'm not really sure why you think it's so historic or why it even matters. Politicians found a new way to advertise, how historic? And I wasn't literally calling them boomers. That's my fault. I was just stating that's how it feels.
I've been really enjoying Among Us's rise in popularity because it DID feel genuine. It wasn't like Fortnite where it was just everywhere and all these celebs started getting in on the Fortnite action, despite knowing nothing about it. Among Us was just a bunch of friends streaming together. THAT is genuine.
AOC's presence completely disrupts that. Now the Fortnite-esque wave feels here. Left-wing sites are building it up as much as they can. Right-wing sites are bashing it as much as they can. The more people talk about it like this, the less genuine it becomes, and this very article is part of that problem.
@texasgoldrush: I mentioned that in my original comment. "Hundreds of stories about it." It doesn't feel genuine when a ton of different sites are pushing the story as much as they can. I've seen it everywhere and when I see Washington Post with a video titled "Is AOC sus?", all I can think about is the boomers desperately trying to appeal to gen z. It's not genuine. It's pandering.
If it's so genuine, then why do you feel the need to make like 5 articles about it while there are already hundreds of stories about it? It doesn't feel genuine when it's constantly being shoved in our faces, Gamespot. People don't like being patronized. I'm left-leaning and I find it very obnoxious.
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