when you pair finances (a realm filled with scams and con artists) to gamers (people who are notoriously more gullible than the average person) then it’s not a great mix.
“You can make real money by playing this game” is genuinely one of the oldest scams on the internet, like at all. And gamers keep falling for it.
I don’t understand how that can happen lol, this is one of those cases where I’m not so sure that victim blaming is wrong 100% of the time.
Like if it’s a little kid, mentally disabled person, or geriatric who’s ignorance is being exploited, that’s one thing. But a grown ass adult who’s lived around technology their whole life? I simply don’t understand how that happens as a question of causality.
I have half a mind to post some retarded anime supervillain-tier monolog where I do a deep dive into the meaning of personal agency, question if these people even have any agency over themselves, and if they don’t, claim that this is equivalent to them not even existing in the first place. I then proceed to hatch some obtuse and inefficent plot to exploit it with an unnecessarily high human cost.
when you pair finances (a realm filled with scams and con artists) to gamers (people who are notoriously more gullible than the average person) then it’s not a great mix.
“You can make real money by playing this game” is genuinely one of the oldest scams on the internet, like at all. And gamers keep falling for it.
To be fair, you could make real money by playing games… if you were a gold farmer or an account seller
or by actually being good and play it professionally.
Tbh I keep forgetting we live in a reality where that’s a thing
Also, if you’re popular enough on Twitch or YouTube you can make money playing games and hot tub streams
I don’t understand how that can happen lol, this is one of those cases where I’m not so sure that victim blaming is wrong 100% of the time.
Like if it’s a little kid, mentally disabled person, or geriatric who’s ignorance is being exploited, that’s one thing. But a grown ass adult who’s lived around technology their whole life? I simply don’t understand how that happens as a question of causality.
I have half a mind to post some retarded anime supervillain-tier monolog where I do a deep dive into the meaning of personal agency, question if these people even have any agency over themselves, and if they don’t, claim that this is equivalent to them not even existing in the first place. I then proceed to hatch some obtuse and inefficent plot to exploit it with an unnecessarily high human cost.
Don’t use slurs.