The meme I chose for my blog was the all famous “Internet Fight” meme. I chose this one because not only is it one of my favorites, the concept of an “internet fight” is a staple of the fighting game community. The largest rivalries in the fighting game community are based on region, these being east coast vs west coast, southern California vs northern California and New York vs Atlanta. These rivaling regions only meet face to face a few times a year, and in between the events where they do meet, regions are relentless, talking all sorts of trash to each other. Players are really passionate for the game and the respective scene that they are a part of and will always back up anyone from their scene regardless of what the circumstances are and how ridiculous their claims are. Another example of the concept of an “internet fight” that is common in the fighting game community comes up when discussing the technicalities of the games. Players always debate and “theory fight” as we call it to try to get their ideas/points across. However, gamers are no different than regular people, and a lot of them have a hard time admitting that they are wrong or are very close minded to others’ ideas and tend to speak very aggressively or defensively. Lastly, “internet fights” come up in the so called politics of the fighting game community. A lot of drama goes around in the fighting game community, between event/tournament organizers, streamers, top players and even viewers at home. A lot of this is very random and unpredictable, like someone having an issue with another person and not bring it to said person in a face-to-face setting or players having problems with how an event was ran. Almost every month, there is some sort of drama going on in the fighting game community that ensues an “internet fight”. The terms “keyboard warrior” or “keyboard Katie” get thrown around all the time when talking about certain people in the community. As much as I hate the concept of “internet fights”, I guess its just the nature of us being nerds arguing online all the time.
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