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There's an overweight of outcasts in gaming spaces, which is why queer people are incredibly overrepresented. Both among developers, players and in games themselves
But for the same reasons, you'll find gaming related echo chambers that funnel people into hate filled ideology such as incel culture. A different kind of outcasts.
Sure gaming have become quite mainstream and you can find almost any sub group who games. But most "normies" games less than the outcasts, as they don't need the escapism it allows for.
Within the more "normal people" group, there's also variations. Some allow for hatred to exist within the communities they act within, some don't, some allow for queer safe spaces others turn around the second they see it.
It's a nuanced topic, which could turn into paragraph after paragraph. But outcasts are overrepresented within gaming. Especially rural outcasts, as they aren't able to find a physical group to mirror themselves in