Joe Rogan and Ari Shaffir explain how \u2018gamer rage\u2019 became mainstream Joe RoganJoe Rogan spoke briefly about the exaggerated gamer rage that can be found online during an episode of his mega-popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Joe Rogan is no stranger to the world of video games. In a recent episode of his show, he talked at length about his previous addiction to video games, saying \u201cI wish I wasn\u2019t such a simpleton because if I could f**king just play for like one hour and stop\u2026 I cannot.\u201d He\u2019s spoken previously about his love for Quake, and how he\u2019s had to stop playing video games because of his inability to put them down. Rogan said that going cold turkey on gaming is the only way he can live, as even just a small taste will make him addicted again. Episode #1686 featured guest Ari Shaffir, a comedian who created the Comedy Central show \u2018This Is Not Happening.\u2019 In the episode, the pair spoke about their feelings on public displays of anger that happen online and \u201cgamer rage.\u201d Timestamp: 1:46:27 Ari says,\u201dIt\u2019s like gamer rage. You know how they\u2019re like \u2018I hope you get AIDS and your mom dies in front of you.\u2019 And regular people caught on with that.\u201d Rogan responds, \u201cRight, the gamer chats, when they would say things in the chats. It was like fun to say.\u201d Shaffir replies, \u201cI think all the e-rages are just like, a couple people talking and then far more, like a hundred, a thousand times that people weighing in on what the small amount of people actually (say).\u201d Rogan agrees, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s also a lot of cowards out there. A lot of cowards, and those cowards are the ones that virtue signal because they want to make sure that they\u2019re on the right side of your rage. They want to be with you while you attack other people. And when it turns on then, it\u2019s horrific.\u201d Gamers raging is not a new subject, and there\u2019s plenty of people who associate a typical gamer with instances of taking their matches way too seriously. Many communities in gaming have struggled to curtail their most toxic members who damage the reputation of the whole. Joe and Ari see the toxic elements of \u201cgamer rage\u201d coming through in discourse online. Rogan believes that some of the aggressive energy channeled in online arguments is similar to gamers when they rage at video games, saying the most hurtful things they can think of in the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan and Ari Shaffir explain how \u2018gamer rage\u2019 became mainstream Joe RoganJoe Rogan spoke briefly about the exaggerated gamer rage that can be found online during an episode of his mega-popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Joe Rogan is no stranger to the world of video games. In a recent episode of his show, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}