The Last Of Us Part 2 Actor Says Fans Threatened Her Son
The Last Of Us Part 2 Actor Says Fans Threatened Her Son
Laura Bailey said the harassment taught her to ‘keep a distance’
It's amazing that toxic gamer culture persists even as games become more mainstream. Sending death threats to a toddler over the death of a fictional character is unhinged.
That toxicity you speak of is pretty evident in humans in general, you don’t have to just leave it at the feet of gamers.
The thing that is maybe being lost in this is that it literally is unhinged people doing this.
Most people in their day to day life only pass by people with schizophrenia or delusions of reference. But when media has a wide enough audience, those people fixate on various things in unhealthy ways.
Schizophrenics play video games too. But the way they relate to the games is different from how healthy people do.
If millions of people play the game, and even only 0.01% of the audience are unhinged enough to send death threats to an actors' family because they can't separate fact from fiction, that's still 10 people sending death threats for every million people that play.
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