When video game was considered a sin, nobody called people who play games "gamers"
Then video game got mainstream, even grown-ups started to play it, the news called them "gamer", and I remember me being 12 yo getting annoyed by people calling me "gamer", trying to sell me gamer graphics card with fire stickers on it, gamer chair, gamer mouse, gamer drinks WTF.
The whole thing is not a niche that few people understands, it's a business. Then people got used to it and accepted the term "gamer".
When memes was just a few fun pics on 4chan, nobody called people who did it "memers"
Then TV started to call people who meme "memers", memes went normie when the biggest channel on YouTube was about memes, and every Fortnite montage channels started to meme, there're pepe shirts, pepe dolls, pepe emotes on Twitch, the whole meme thing runs like a business.
This is just one of the early signs.
The "memer" term is just going to follow "gamer" with a bunch of 30 yo "memeing", to entertain and profit from the masses.
Then video game got mainstream, even grown-ups started to play it, the news called them "gamer", and I remember me being 12 yo getting annoyed by people calling me "gamer", trying to sell me gamer graphics card with fire stickers on it, gamer chair, gamer mouse, gamer drinks WTF.
The whole thing is not a niche that few people understands, it's a business. Then people got used to it and accepted the term "gamer".
When memes was just a few fun pics on 4chan, nobody called people who did it "memers"
Then TV started to call people who meme "memers", memes went normie when the biggest channel on YouTube was about memes, and every Fortnite montage channels started to meme, there're pepe shirts, pepe dolls, pepe emotes on Twitch, the whole meme thing runs like a business.
This is just one of the early signs.
The "memer" term is just going to follow "gamer" with a bunch of 30 yo "memeing", to entertain and profit from the masses.