I would like to thank each and every one of you for your dedication to the anti-g*mer cause. The past weeks have been crazy – we came into the spotlight of reddit and have since been constantly brigaded. We’ve had to endure an endless stream of abuse, bullying and harassment from angry and violent g*mers who simply cannot accept the existence of peaceful anti-g*mers. But they made a vital mistake.

They targeted anti-g*mers.

Anti-g*mers.

We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end opposing the influence of Big G*ming. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a small sigh of relief of knowing we did our part in making the world a better place. We’ll push ourselves doing things others would consider torture, because we willingly interact with g*mers to try and help them in their despair. We’ll spend most if not all of our free time proselytizing and preaching our cause all for converting a single g*mer to a peaceful, law-abiding and God-fearing citizen. Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: reading news articles, religious literature, and scientific publications, to the point where we know every little detail such that some of us can recite all the facts and arguments to oppose g*ming from memory.

Do these g*mers have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed as a consequence of our efforts? All to make a better world for the rest of us? These g*mers honestly think this is a battle they can win? They brigade our subreddit? We’ll get all their subreddits banned for violating the reddit terms of service. They yell and scream at us for having a different opinion? Anti-g*mers aren’t shy about obliterating g*mers in arguments whenever they can, and can even make bots to do the debating for us. They think calling us k*ren, boomer, or a litany of racist, homophobic, and transphobic slurs is going to change us? Is somehow going to prove us wrong that they’re not misogynic, ageist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic?

Don’t make me laugh. We’ve been called worse things before these prepubescent 10 year old PewDiePie subscribers came to our subreddit. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their bullying and abuse. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challenge when they tell us we will never get videog*mes banned. Our obsession with getting g*mes banned after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with violent and hateful g*mers destroying our communities that opposing you g*mers has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Anti-g*mers are loving and peaceful, by our very nature. But never forget that we are brave, dedicated, and hardened to the core. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challenge us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; you’re just another little nerd with no real friends or hobbies.

ANTI-G*MERS, RISE UP!!! ✊