i’ve said it before but narcissa wright is like the perfect case study of how gamers are absolutely not an inclusive group of people.
she was considered one of the best speedrunners around, was pretty instrumental in the development of the ocarina of time speedrun, holding the world record for a like, a really good length of time, as well as having some really good speedruns of other games like super monkey ball and castlevania 64 (i think she held the record for carrie for a good while), she made several appearances at games done quick marathons and was one of the contestants in the nintendo world championship from last year, getting to second place overall and getting a signed 3ds from miyamoto
and then she came out as a trans women and like 90% of her fanbase fucking turned on her so quick, calling her slurs, calling her mentally deranged (and anyone supporting her as “enabling a fantasy”), saying she was a hack and that their excuse for being so horrendous was that she didn’t do speedruns or play games any more, but thats bullshit cause if you take like, the time to actually look even really briefly into it, she seriously fucked up her hands playing competitive smash too much; i’ll say it again: she caused serious damage to her wrist and hand muscles because she was playing games too much.
its so evil what happened to her and to this day people harass her, and make threads on 4chan mocking her, all her videos on her new youtube channel get tons of dislikes and shitty comments no matter what she uploads (she uploads smash stuff on the regular! she’s been playing through twilight princess hd! is that not enough gaming for you), and i just
whenever i see shit about how gamers are ~so inclusive~ and don’t care whether you’re lgbt or whatever cuz you’re a gamer its like…no, and what happened to narcissa is perfect proof of that, as shitty as it is
not to mention on twitch, theres a global emote (WinWaker) that’s her face pre-transition and people use that emote all the time in order to mock her. like for example i’ve attended many GDQ streams and whenever the runner says something like “transitioning” in terms of gameplay tactics or whatever the chat starts spamming that emote. it’s absolutely disgusting and i despise the gaming community from pretty much all standpoints
this isn’t completely off topic but to build on this point that gamers are seriously not an inclusive crowd at all, literally just a few days ago at the SGDQ event for this summer Emily Brooks, another trans woman speedrunner made an appearance at 2 am playing pikmin 1. It was a really good run with great commentary and explanation, the couch was great the whole time. The chat even did its (unfortunately) natural “GIRL ITS A GIRL” “GRIL, KAPPA” because Emily is passing at this point, but she hasn’t gone through any real form of vocal training as far as I know, and literally as soon as she started speaking chat absolutely lost their FUCKING mind spamming horrible slurs and insults to the point where the GDQ mods had to switch the chat to emotes only, at which point the BCWarrior emote (a man wearing a pink wig, already a transmisogynistic joke to begin with) got spammed over and over and over again until the end of her run.
the idea that gamers as a whole are a completely inclusive crowd is a complete and utter fallacy, basically the only leverage they have is that literally everyone plays games so they can claim that they have these minorities in their community, it doesn’t really mean that they support them at all, and in most cases actively shun them