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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I mean, would you ask me to describe the precise criteria and boundary points that would or would not make someone into or not into a chud, a nerd, a goober, a shit disturber, a crunchy mom, a baddie, a hipster?

These boundaries are fuzzy and permeable when you try to drill down to minute, specific criteria thresholds.

What they actually are, are labels that exist more as spectrums of traits that begin to solidify into a type, a category, as more of those traits are more prominent and present.

The amount to which someone leverages their sex appeal, or any other personality or physical trait or what not, is part of that spectrum, not a yes/no flipped bit.

I already gave my best attempt at my own definition of a fake gamer: Someone who is cynically and obnoxiously performing the identity of 'gamer' for some purpose beyond just expressing their true self.

Probably there is just some overlap there with me being an autistic introvert and being easily exhausted by the antics of hyper extraverts, which I tend to just interpret as inauthenticity.

The word order is important. Fake is the first word for a reason.

I just don't like 'fake', overly performative and dramatic people. 'fake gamer' is just a subtype of this, 'fake gamer girl', 'fake gamer dudebro' would be further subtypes... hell i could probably go even further with even more specific subniches within those.

Maybe a contrast could be somebody like Emiru.

She comes across to me as far, far less 'fake', in general, to me. She comes across as very authentic to me, so I would not categorize her as a 'fake gamer girl'.

Likewise, Charlie/MoistCritical is, to me at least, very authentic seeming... he's not performing an obnoxious caricature of himself. So, not a 'fake gamer dudebro'.