A guide to the insider's language of YouTube gamers - Someone who has obviously played a video game before talks about terms used by people who play video games

[Diabeetus]

Here’s the article (a).

YouTube is filled with game commentators who use their own slang to describe their perceived enemies. Some of the language comes straight out of the alt-right, a loose grouping of white supremacists and neo-nazis. Here's a guide to what you might encounter.

Paid DLC
Downloadable content for video games became popular as a way of delivering new storylines and features to popular games. Some gamers believe DLC is actually part of the original game they paid $60 for, but was split off to be sold later.

Microtransactions
A business strategy of charging players for additional features and items in a game. Some games, like the battle royale games Epic's Fortnite and Apex Legends from Electronic Arts, are free to download and make money by charging for new cosmetic looks for players, guns and other items.

Games As A Service
A game designed to be played over the internet, which are regularly updated with new features and stories. Players often log on together and partner up or fight one another as they experience the game. Some current games are Bungie's space epic Destiny 2, EA's exploration game Anthem and Bethesda's post-apocalyptic shooting game Fallout 76.

Season Pass
A bundle for a video game in which the company offers multiple DLCs, game modes, different items in the game, and more. It's similar to a "battle pass," in which gamers receive rewards such as new cosmetic looks and customized items in return for regularly playing the game.

SJW
Short for a "social justice warrior," someone who advocates on behalf of women and minorities. The term came to prominence during #GamerGate, a 2014 internet phenomenon during which gamers attacked female developers and feminists with threats of rape, bombing and death over their criticism of the video game industry. Ostensibly, the event was about gamers holding reviewers accountable for perceived ethical lapses.

Urinalist
A blending of the words "journalist" and "urinal."

Soy
A slur insinuating men are effeminate based on the urban legend that drinking soy milk increases estrogen production. It's often used against SJWs.

Huhwhite man
A way of emphasizing the "h" in white. Jared Taylor, the white nationalst who runs the American Renaissance, a news and commentary site, is known to pronounce the word this way.

Woke
Being aware of injustice in society, especially racism. People who "are woke" are often slurred as Woke Warriors, part of a Woke Brigade or a Keyboard Warrior. When a person or company demonstrates their woked-ness, they're often accused of "virtue signaling."

Fake Woke Points / Digital Back Pats
Positive support for virtue signaling.

"Get Woke, Go Broke"
Often said in celebration when a company, game or publication that had heavy political undertones posts disappointing sales or shuts down.

Sail the High Seas
A euphemism for pirating content. It's used in part because of the belief that YouTube's automatic captioning will punish videos with references to pirating.

Blue Checkmarks
A slur against "verified" Twitter users, who have a blue checkmark by their names. It's usually used to refer to journalists and prominent political figures.

Ratio'd
A measure of social media response to a Tweet or YouTube video. On Twitter, if the number of comments is higher than the number of "likes" or retweets, it's believed to have been voted down by the community. On YouTube, it can also refer to receiving more "thumbs down" votes than "thumbs up."

White Knighting
Man coming to a woman's defense. It's often used disparagingly.

Feminazi
A term that was once popular to describe women who claims to support gender equality, but actually supports sexism toward men. The term was popular in the 1990's but has since fallen out of vogue.

This article is a fucking handful. It’s unbelievable how this wasn’t written for a satire publication like The Onion or The Hard Times, this is a serious article that is not actually meant to be funny.

The author advertises it as a “List Of Terms Used By Gamers”, but he not only mentions YouTube in the first sentence for absolutely no reason, but he gives up on listing terms used by gamers like 1/3 of the way and just starts listing Twitter slang you could look up on Urban Dictionary in two seconds. Why?

And there’s no point in bringing up how fucked up and inaccurate some of his defenitions are. Just look at ‘white knighting’. Completely misinterprets what that term is supposed to refer to.

Also, this is the author:



And this is his Twitter (a). I might look into this guy a bit more because after doing a cursory glance over his feed, he seems like just as much of a handful as this article.

 

[The best and greatest]

Dude's gramma thinks he looks cute tho.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Youtube. Gamers. Pick one.

WTF is a youtube gamer? Is that like those stupid ass VCR games they made in the late 80s?

 

[Clop]

4/16 were actual gamer terms. I guess that's.. an attempt? Sounds like he's trying to make it sound like a funny joke ha ha by first starting with gaming BUSINESS terms and then moving on to calling gamers a bunch of nazis. So it's pretty much just meant for a niche audience of people who think gaming is satanism. Interesting choice of audience.

No mention of actual terms used by gamers instead of slimy suits trying to wring money out of whales and children. I'm more insulted that the guy calls DLC and the like "popular" and "rewards" and games as a service "regularly updated with new features and stories." What a fucking joke.

I assume he meant "gaming industry critics" - so he can't even fucking articulate what the fuck he's talking about.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Most of it are "Inside terms" used by the Youtube Skeptics.

 

[Diabeetus]

Most of it are "Inside terms" used by the Youtube Skeptics.

Nah, it’s mostly just Twitter talk. No one outside of Twitter assholes uses ‘ratio’d’ or ‘blue checkmark’ or ‘fake woke points’. Some of these words are so out of left field, I have zero clue why he would add fucking ‘huhwhite man’ outside of the obvious reason. People don’t call each other ‘huhwhite men’ with that specific pronunciation while playing games with their friends.

 

[gun]

 

[V0dka]

Here’s the article (a).


This article is a fucking handful. It’s unbelievable how this wasn’t written for a satire publication like The Onion or The Hard Times, this is a serious article that is not actually meant to be funny.

The author advertises it as a “List Of Terms Used By Gamers”, but he not only mentions YouTube in the first sentence for absolutely no reason, but he gives up on listing terms used by gamers like 1/3 of the way and just starts listing Twitter slang you could look up on Urban Dictionary in two seconds. Why?

And there’s no point in bringing up how fucked up and inaccurate some of his defenitions are. Just look at ‘white knighting’. Completely misinterprets what that term is supposed to refer to.

Also, this is the author:

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And this is his Twitter (a). I might look into this guy a bit more because after doing a cursory glance over his feed, he seems like just as much of a handful as this article.

I'm starting to think I could become a best selling published author like in The Sims or something, there is no way anything I would write would be stupider than this. But come to think of it, maybe my stuff would be too high brow if this is whats popular.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Of course he led with the first four because they're actual gaming terms.

Lol at Urinalist, I've literally never heard that one before.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Of course he led with the first four because they're actual gaming terms.

Lol at Urinalist, I've literally never heard that one before.

Yeah right? Did this idiot just get triggered by one rando fucking with him and wrote an article about it?

 

[UnclePhil]

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I was just about to post that this reads like every "Parent's Guide to Your Teen's Slang" magazine article from twenty years ago.

"Get Woke, Go Broke"
Often said in celebration when a company, game or publication that had heavy political undertones posts disappointing sales or shuts down.

Well, slight correction there, Ian. We stopped celebrating as this has literally been the case every single time. Too many parties, not enough hours in the day.

Is this the same individual that got all the channels demonetized?

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I was just about to post that this reads like every "Parent's Guide to Your Teen's Slang" magazine article from twenty years ago.



Well, slight correction there, Ian. We stopped celebrating as this has literally been the case every single time. Too many parties, not enough hours in the day.

Is this the same individual that got all the channels demonetized?

No, that dudes name was Carlos Maza. Just goes to show how thin-skinned journalists as a whole are.

 

[The Lizard Queen]

Sounds like the kind of article that my cool grandfather who is hip with the kiddies would have written.

 

[shartshooter]

Feminazi
A term that was once popular to describe women who claims to support gender equality, but actually supports sexism toward men. The term was popular in the 1990's but has since fallen out of vogue.

I like how this definition of cutting edge lingo states it hasn't been used much since the Clinton administration.

 

[FeverGlitch]

Blue Checkmarks
A slur against "verified" Twitter users, who have a blue checkmark by their names.

Okay, what?

 

[UnclePhil]

Sounds like the kind of article that my cool grandfather who is hip with the kiddies would have written.

"Rest assured, parents/and or guardians, those stupid bracelets your kids wear don't represent whatever color penis. The rumors of them huffing cat urine are also, according to statistical data gathered, exaggerated."

"But let me tell you about this A/S/L (Age/Sex/Location) and who might be asking them that in AOL (America Online*) Chat (an online* gathering place for children and adults alike to communicate using their keyboards** to form words on the World Wide Web***.)"

 

[Wraith]

"A term that was once popular to describe women who claims to support gender equality, but actually supports sexism toward men. The term was popular in the 1990's but has since fallen out of vogue."
Hell with this tiny little sterile bitch. I know Rush Limbaugh made the term back in the day to describe a very small, a very tiny minority of feminists who were insane "kill all da chil'rens" crowd. You had to be the worst of the worst back then to be called this. Now feminism is multiple times the cancer that it applies to the Womb Turd Reich, even most of the rank and file.
Crap article. Crap author. He's probably being pegged by his boyfriend who transitioned last week as we read this. Moving along...

 

[AsbestosFlaygon]

My favorite thing about these articles are when they treat phrases that most of the internet would not have a fucking clue about as if they're common. I have never heard of urinalist, huhwhite man, or ratio'd before in my life, and I'm going to guess that I'm probably not going to hear them that much from hear on out, just a guess.

 

[CIA Nigger]

Is this satire? This sounds a lot like classic spoof articles like Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?

 

[Tanti-Fanti]

This sounds like those old, misguided parent books that tried to "DEFINE" kids by using lingo to help parents understand and just made them look even more stupid and out of touch. It also doesn't help many of these terms are ill-defined to push the whole "ANGRY GAMER" bs.