Yup. As i've posted before, I was a known player in the FGC in the early-mid 2000's - mainly for street fighter. I stopped fukkin with it for years but i popped back up a couple of years ago when street fighter 5 dropped. I've noticed some obvious changes at shoryuken.com since i've left
The SF5 community is heavy on reddit now and i notice a lot of reddit slang among the FGC. The most obvious nod to the racist side of reddit is using the term
"Low IQ" when describing a character that is "easy" to play with. When i went to kick it with my boy and his homies (all non-black - mainly asian and white),
and i heard somebody say "R. Mika is such a low iq character, dude!", my ears perked up. The low iq "meme" is heavy among the racist whites online circles like reddit, FORchan, etc.
Mixing asian americans (HABITUAL social status seekers and white daddy's obedient admirers) with the racism of reddit is a recipe with a predictable outcome. The funny thing is right now BLACKS are currently heavily represented in the SF5 scene in america:
About 3 of the top 10 american players are black.
One of the top SF5 personalities is black.
One of the top commentators is black.
And one of the game developers responsible for PR within the community is a black/rican dude.
This is a first
