Over the last week I could swear I’ve seen way more types suddenly throwing around the word troglodyte left right and centre
I thought it was supposed to be a sound a gorilla makes. Anyway, whether it should be changed or not, “unga” currently sits as the standard term in the fgc for characters with excessively safe moves (who thereby enable button mashing, mindless offense, hence gorillas).
I’m pretty sure lots of people in communities use racist terminology that was derived from Heated G!mer Moments without knowing where it came from. And that’s understandable.
It’s like the use of (CW: Ableistic slang)
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“REEEEEE” to describe someone being upset.
But some get so protective of their edgy slang that they cite caveman themed video games from the 90s to justify contemporary use and argue for hours against everyone saying otherwise.
The fgc is profoundly sexist, but it’s very multiracial, with a particularly large proportion of black members, including the NB person who is currently held as the best in the genre, sonicfox. It’s possible that I just don’t know the origin, but I wouldn’t guess that it was something anti-black because then there would probably be more pushback against it.
Comrade Sonicfox is exactly the kind of person that inspires bravery in lots of marginalized people, and makes bigots sooooo mad.
