Video games helped sell new iPhones until everyone has a smartphone in the world. Games sold the idea of casinos in your pocket. Games sold relationships to digital stimuli that weren't culturally acceptable before. This diseased core has moved on and is taking its place as the dominant culture now.

it has been since probably the early 2010s since i regularly heard people saying 101 level phrases like "the patriarchy hurts men too" and we should bring it back bc american culture has regressed so much since then that it's pretty pathetic tbh