Over the last week I could swear I’ve seen way more 
types suddenly throwing around the word troglodyte left right and centre
Over the last week I could swear I’ve seen way more types suddenly throwing around the word troglodyte left right and centre
Very recently I’ve also seen “Unga Bunga” being said by totally-not-racist racist liberals, and they pretend to be innocent smol beans that totally only think of 90s video games with cavemen when they think “Unga Bunga.”
I’ve seen it going around, but only in reference to video game strategies that amount to “forget strategy, just go hit it until it dies”
“Tank and spank” is what I usually hear. Maybe I don’t group up with enough totally-not-racists when strategizing.
Its common in fighting games for characters who have a simple strategy or are seen as “mashy”
I thought it was supposed to be a sound a gorilla makes. Anyway, whether it should be changed or not, “unga” currently sits as the standard term in the fgc for characters with excessively safe moves (who thereby enable button mashing, mindless offense, hence gorillas).
I’m pretty sure lots of people in
communities use racist terminology that was derived from Heated G!mer Moments without knowing where it came from. And that’s understandable.
It’s like the use of (CW: Ableistic slang)
spoiler
“REEEEEE” to describe someone being upset.
But some
get so protective of their edgy slang that they cite caveman themed video games from the 90s to justify contemporary use and argue for hours against everyone saying otherwise.
The fgc is profoundly sexist, but it’s very multiracial, with a particularly large proportion of black members, including the NB person who is currently held as the best in the genre, sonicfox. It’s possible that I just don’t know the origin, but I wouldn’t guess that it was something anti-black because then there would probably be more pushback against it.