This isn't the first time he's tackled a similar query, and he has those answers in links in the Description*, but one thing that stuck out in my mind was how the rise of Influencers and Influencer Culture has shaped people's opinions about games. The longer his video went on, the more I thought of that line from Citizen Kane...
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| From Citizen Kane via Yarn. |
That reminds me that we've come full circle in what Influencer Culture really means: there have always been people who tell us what to think and what to buy, it's just that the nature of that delivery has changed over the decades** to being more immediate, requiring a more immediate response.
Well, we can control our response, and that's where hitting the pause button isn't a bad idea.
*Tim is awfully good at providing links such as that.
**Or centuries.
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