[big85]

Indeed. The alt-right pipeline preys on fears. Gamers are afraid of losing their culture to "woke" game and anime localization, women in gamer spaces, and character diversity.

As Göring said at his trial at Nuremberg, "the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

[dyauspitr]

This is usually a different fear than anxiety. I wouldn’t even call it a fear, it’s more of a feeling of loss. Eg. Losing scantily clad women with big boobs in video games is a real loss.