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Tbh the fact that the author didn't know what discord is suggests that he's probably not online enough to be talking about internet subcultures (gooner or otherwise). The closest he gets to actual data is "Hey the jury's out on if porn addiction is real
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Also getting real tired of people blindly attributing things to COVID lockdowns with 0 evidence.
Whole world: has lockdowns.
America: "Yeah so this is why I was forced to build a 4k six-screen pornlair".
American exceptionalism is evidently the inability to stay inside and learn to bake bread or crochet for a couple of months.
People who've been inside prison for longer periods of time come out better adjusted than what melodramatic rightoids pretend to be because of phantom lockdowns that never actually happened. It's crazy.
tbh i didn't get the impression the author didn't know what discord was. rather that it wasn't an application they used, so as a writer taking the reader on a journey, took the time to explain what it is to a readership that might not.
discord is a relatively niche app among people who aren't under 40 and the narrative doesn't suffer from a few sentence description of its userbase to the uninitiated reader in a long form article.
The author probably introduced Discord like that because most Harper's Magazine readers are probably too offline for that. Also, the COVID lockdowns certainly didn't make these people better. They aren't the source of gooners (and the article doesn't claim that unless an interviewee did), but rather an intensifying factor.