Back in 2015, the small faction of Twitter users I spent my time chatting with suddenly fell into the habit of talking about “true gamers.” The joke was that at the time, video game writing often made a weirdly insecure and self-aggrandizing distinction between true gamers and poseurs, so it was funny to carry that into unrelated contexts. True gamers d…
Why typographic humor doesn't age well
One of online's most interesting forms of comedy has an unbearably short shelf life.
