Gamers should stop being hypersensitive
Being a gamer should not be your entire identity. Go outside and touch grass.
One of the things that Matt Walsh noticed and pointed out several years ago when he was a blogger was that some of the most intense push back he got was when he criticized video games, or even excessive playing of video games. Liz Wheeler experienced this a couple weeks ago when she posted a meme on X (formerly Twitter) about habits that women find "unattractive" in men.
First, the fact that this got a "community note" is ridiculous. It is not a real poll, so there is no need to "fact check" what she posted. It is a meme. Grow a sense of humor and understand when hyperbole or jokes are used to make a legitimate point. I am a hardcore literalist and I have been criticized for it for decades now, but even I recognize that this is a joke. If you're so defensive of your hobby that you need to fact-check a meme, you are probably too attached to it.
Furthermore, even if Wheeler was 100% serious when she posted her meme, people need to chill out. Yes, there was a serious point behind it, as she did a segment on her show about why she thinks video games are not a good hobby and that men should avoid them. But the original post was a meme that did not merit a visceral reaction or a pedantic fact-check.
Many people play video games, and the annual revenue of the video game industry is more than three times larger than the global recorded music industry and the global movie industry combined. Smartphones, tablets and the Nintendo Wii expanded the appeal of video games from the "red ocean" of 16-30 year old males to a much wider "blue ocean" of women and older people. There are plenty of defenses of video games as a legitimate hobby, so I do not need to go over that here.
But if you become enraged when someone makes the perfectly reasonable suggestion that gaming should not take up so much time that it takes away from your responsibilities or when some women say gaming is an unattractive hobby, you need to take a step back. Why do you care what a podcaster has to say? If you are so attached to your hobby that you become angry at even reasonable criticisms of it, you need to take a step back and seriously analyze whether you are treating it like an idol.
If you want to be a gamer, then by all means have fun as long as it does not take away from your responsibilities. But being a gamer should not be your entire identity. Life is much bigger than earning achievements or finishing a particularly difficult side quest. Go outside and touch grass.