Gamer Pride Month

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TRUST ME IM A PRIDE MONTH IS OVER FELLAS GAMER now it's time for Gamer MONTH

ACE FROM SPACE @nefarious... 7 h i made a flag for the most oppressed of genders; Gamers orange represents doritos green represents mountain dew black represents our edgy gamer tech red represents our god, Nintendo Please RT to spread awareness t 727 1.291 88

This month we celebrate who we are Legends Explorers Survivors Assassins Sometimes were soldiers Sometimes we're mercanaries Weve been heros and villians EXIT RATMANA RA OIGINS A We've saved the world And helped destray some of it gRa th aut Although the media may hate us FOX NEWS HOMICIDE Published January 13, 2018 Video-gamer, 28, kills mom after blaming her for broken headset, police say ALWAYS be proud of who you are! Happy Gamer Pride Month 2018

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Gamer Pride Month refers to a parody social media campaign participants of which change their profile pictures to color yellow for the duration of month July to express solidarity with "opressed gamers" in the spirit of Gamers Rise Up memes, parodying both solidarity profile picture changes such as Blue for Sudan, and the LGBTQ+ Pride Month. The campaign gained significant spread on Instagram in early July 2019.

Origin

On June 30th, 2018, Twitter user @jakegrnr reposted an image made by an unknown author in which Sonic the Hedgehog announced the start of the "gamer month" (shown below).^[12] In the following day, the image was also posted to /r/GamersRiseUp^[13] and /r/okbuddyretard^[14] subreddits.

On July 2nd, 2018, iFunny user Sovie made a text post explaining an intention to inconspicuously plant an idea for a "gamer month" by creating non-ironic posts about it on Reddit and Change.org, as well as making shitposts on /r/GamersRiseUp subreddit (shown below).^[1] The post gained over 3,700 smiles in one year and was republished by multiple accounts.^[2]

PRIDE MONTH IS OVER FELLAS GAMER now it's time for F3Gamer MONTH I have an idea It's kinda stupid but it could be f------ hilarious if it actually works. Basically, everyone starts shitposting about Gamer Month and we try to spread it to the features. We also try to spread it to places like Reddit's r/gaming in a attempt to actually make people want a Gamer Month. After that, we could create a change.com petition for there to be a Gamer Month. Basically, meme the s--- out of Gamer Month until it's a non-shitposty way in an we widespread idea, and then we actually try to make it real. I know it's retarded, but just imagine if it worked, if we shitposted a month for f------ gammers into existence. We need this. When we make the memes on ifunny, GIF captions seem to be an efficent way to spread idea,vso we could make a fuckload of GIF captions about people not acknowledging Gamer Month and how that's a bad thing. Meanwhile we should make other posts that are more featurable, twitter memes, videos anything. We should also shitpost on Reddit's r/ GamersRiseUp subreddit, the type of content or that sub leads me to believe they would also help us shitpost gamer month into existence an Now after a week or two, if this campaign is actually working, Gaming and say stuff like "So even meme, wouldn't Gamer Month actually be pretty cool?" and we we should get a few people to go on r/ though it's a try to gain support for having a game month. If those posts gain actual traction, then we can make a change.com petition asking for a gamer month. This is the final step, we signatures from people and maybe just maybe if we're lucky it'll get some kind of media coverage and if we get f------ Devine intervention, Gamer Month will become a real thing. get enough Remember: Don't make the memes overly homophobic decreases know it would be funny, but the Gamer Month movement being tied to anything that could be Considered Alt-Right is a really bad idea. We want this to work or racist. Doing that our chances of this working. Repub this post to join the Gamer Month Movement to make Gamer Month real. The more repubs, the more реople see this, the more Gentlemen Gamers we have to help existence. Shitpost Gamer Month into uS If this works, I might die. This would be the ultimate shitpost

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In the following days, multiple memes about the gamer month were made on iFunny^[3]^[4] and in ironic communities such as /r/GamersRiseUp.^[5]^[6] Multiple users posted designs for a "gamer pride" flag (examples shown below).^[7]

SO THE LGBT COMMUNITY GETS THEIR OWN MONTH BUT WE DON'T HAVE GAMER MONTH? GAMERS RISE UP... SOUTH TEXT ee

In June 2019, more posts about July 2019 being a "gamer month" or a "gamer pride month" were posted on Twitter and Reddit. On June 1st, Twitter user @NEFURIOUS_SKULL posted a flag "for gamers, the most oppressed of genders" (screenshot shown below)_.^[8]^[9] The post gained over 720 retweets and 1,200 likes before the account has been suspended sometime in the following month.

The exact origin of the yellow profile pictures idea is currently unconfirmed. On July 1st, 2019, Twitter user @oskmosouthpaw tweeted "Change your profile picture to yellow to raise awareness for gamers during Gamer pride month" with the tweet gaining 4 retweets and 8 likes.^[15] On July 2nd, 2019, Twitter user @Trickassbichh made a similar tweet, which received over 130 retweets and 200 likes in two days (shown below). In the following hours, screenshots of the tweets were reposted by multiple users on Instagram, including notable reposts by users alpha.coach^[10] and spicy.mp4^[11].

As the awareness of the parody campaign spread, multiple users on Instagram either set their profile pictures to solid yellow color, or used a yellow background.