@All_bonesJones@matrix@1iceloops123 how is that any argument about what I said though? I made a point about adopting their strategies by talking about what the boomer shooter group does.
There's a guy who does voice acting and formerly acted as a meme man on Twitter (still on YT doing impersonations of other game characters to viral success), and another who is a game reviewer who even had a cameo appearance in at least one of the games in said group.
My point is, you need to network. You need to have a reviewer friend with a channel, for a voice actor buddy who has the right connections, etc. k4eGtpWb2FEBA79Z.jpg image.png
I have already given you puzzle pieces of one possible solution by posting what another grift circle did on a smaller scale. You can either interpret it as you will or mope/fedpost depending on your dose of meds that day. 08 - Game Over.flac
@1iceloops123@matrix@All_bonesJones Aside from ComicsGate gaining a reputation it could never shake as a grift circle with the same faults as the old industry, they actually made something.
You can't say that about many gamers aside from the anons on the /AGDG/ threads, and anglosphere chan culture got taken out back and shot by a coalition of furries, glowies, journalists, and a vindictive cripple.
Many gamers are literal soyjaks who will buy the current game and complain about it. Then if things get too bad they'll bank everything on remasters. Even if the game from 2007 is censored, it's not the game from 2024.
@1iceloops123@matrix@All_bonesJones@thomasroiloup Reddit and Discord have users who do far worse shit than KF users at their worst did, and those are less popular groups. The Sharty and OnAForums and similar are where open trolling goes on and nobody tries to blame them for suicides that were unrelated because it's a tactic a certain community online likes to use to get sympathy and Get Results.
Thankfully with picrel, you will never have to worry about the darn kiwis again, especially with the site's "don't touch the shit"/"no cowtipping"/"don't tap the glass" policy (depending on the era of the site) that gives it less effectiveness compared to OnAForums or The Sharty.
But maybe they weren't needed as much given that any nonce with a reposted callout post on there can say it's fabricated.
@1iceloops123@matrix@All_bonesJones Without going into fedposting, which can have mixed results even if it's successful, there's two options.
The first is to bitch on Kiwi Farms and Twitter, and mock those responsible. This sometimes works, but either the parties responsible will regroup and rebrand, or new people will take their place.
The second is to adapt some of their strategies. One forum posted about a smaller scale version of what Silverstring/Sweet Baby Inc has done. There's a whole "Boomer Shooter" grift with random shit indie devs making "safe edgy" 90s inspired shooters which tick all the same boxes, but there's one thing in common.
There's somewhat of a welfare system at play. Gianni Matragrano (duke nukem vasectomy guy) will do the voice acting or have credits, while Civvie 11 will do reviews of the games to market them to the masses. After all, these developers make sure to say the magic phrase after all.
In a way it's a smaller scale, lower budget version of what happened during GamerGate with how deep the corruption was running with devs like Phil Fish. They were simply playing the game the way it was intended, they had people there doing marketing, an awards show that was clearly having conflicts of interest, and if anything Phil Fish was just his own worst enemy.