I mean, it was a thing far before that. Russia has been historically vilified in US culture, in many ways unfairly. Goes all the way back to red scare propaganda.
Probably just more pronounced lately given the trash fire of a war in Ukraine.
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Honestly, I feel like a lot of that was backlash to the insane number of Russians using cheats and hacks in Counter Strike, Ghost Recon, and Call of Duty. I played a lot around 2000-2010, and more often than not, if a match was ridiculously tilted, it was a Russian or Chinese player using wallhacks.
to be fair, the Russian counter strike scene was always rather rough, with pretty toxic ppl, but ye, i think you may be right to a degree
Central Asian CSGO players aren't safe from insults thrown at the Russian players.
Yes this feels indeed disproportionate compared to Russia's actions.
Just to be sure: this is irony because Russia started a territorial war, right?
Yes it was ironical.
thank God :D
Are you Russian or did you talk to Russians online who play CSGO? Can you talk more about your experiences in that game which lead you to that conclusion?
I didn't play much since the war started. Before it was either regular banter or toxic behavior not specifically biased against Russians, now it obviously got worse, because many people think that the Russian people is gaslighted by their government.
I have encountered many friendly Russians with whom I played and we mockingly insulted each other in various languages without ill will, and I have encountered many people who were toxic and started to flame right away, on both the Russian and the non-Russian sides.
If you say telling people who don't talk English in an international video game, when you asked them multiple times, to fuck off is 'russophobia', you could say there's 'Germophobia' (or whatever you call bias against Germans) as well. I wouldn't go so far.
How can you say cyka blyat in a non-mocking tone?
Yes, it's as old as the CS and general online gaming, like the infamous CYKA BLYAT and RUSH B memes, and it got many many times worse in the last year with the russophobic onslaught in all western and westoid media.
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