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Hace tiempo que no leía un reportaje tan bueno como este The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz. Yo juraba que esa weá de los gooners era un meme no más, pero no, realmente hay una comunidad de weones que se pajean por horas, a menudo en compañía virtual con otros pajeros. La cagó el nivel de decadencia.

El periodista en un momento habla con uno de los productores del porno que apunta a los gooners y le dice:

You know, it’s a little fucked up, I’m going to admit. It’s almost like a drug, and we’re almost, like, pushing that drug on addicts. And honestly, I question the ethics of it sometimes. [Laughs.] We’re pushing people who are forgoing personal relationships because they’re so lost in their gooning addictions. And encouraging that only drives them deeper. So, do I ever have questions of morality about that in my own mind? Yeah, I do. But has it stopped me? [Laughs.] No. I enjoy my job. I like what I do.

Puta que describe bien a los que tienen la cagá en el mundo. Saben que están dejando la cagá pero lo hacen igual, porque les acomoda.

El artículo cierra con la siguiente reflexión:

It’s hard not to see goonerism as just an intensification, almost a burlesque, of prevailing cultural trends. Pornosexuals are clearly not the only people out there in the process of retreating from life. It’s probably more useful to think of a company like Aylo—the owner of Pornhub and most of the other major tube sites, as well as most of the name-brand porn studios—as just another large tech-entertainment giant, like Meta, Netflix, or FanDuel. From these companies’ perspective, the ideal consumer would do literally nothing but goon, lose at gambling, and maybe watch other people play video games. You can try to fight this. You can read a book, pet a dog, buy a stupid box to lock away your phone. You can make a joke about the box, about the absurdity of your need for it. What do these companies care? They’ve won. If they have their way—and they usually do—in time we will all be gooners, of a kind.

Así estamos.