If you had to describe the FGC in two words - and if you weren't enough of a dick to do something like hyphenate "fighting game" and then say that it counts as one word - it'd be reasonable to pick "LOL" and "REKT," as in, this...
...or this...
...or even this:
"LOL REKT" is the public face of the FGC. It's "download complete." It's the person in the audience with the giant cardboard saltshaker. It's the commentators who are at a loss for words because they can't adequately describe what just happened without resorting to the type of language that'd piss off the Twitch cops. But does it really describe the FGC in its entirety? I say no:
So what two words best describe the FGC? Yeah, "REKT" is one. But the other is "memories."
Me when i’m doing great in life but a major inconvenience happens pic.twitter.com/4GKsj9bSPA— 🔱NOP🔱|Black Yoshi (@BlackYoshiSSB) December 15, 2017
...or this...
Longest hard read in SF history, against @kemal_ardiyanto pic.twitter.com/HLtPF8r83R— Kevin Mintaraga (@kvmin) December 13, 2017
...or even this:
got my hands on a new dbfz screenshot pic.twitter.com/3xrCw31Rew— The Commentattorney (@ultradavid) December 13, 2017
"LOL REKT" is the public face of the FGC. It's "download complete." It's the person in the audience with the giant cardboard saltshaker. It's the commentators who are at a loss for words because they can't adequately describe what just happened without resorting to the type of language that'd piss off the Twitch cops. But does it really describe the FGC in its entirety? I say no:
This can be easy to forget, especially for stream monsters like yours truly, but the FGC does have a yang to its "LOL REKT" yin. It's not the NFL, a giant, faceless corporation with players who only sorta kinda know each other - or, at least, it's not that yet. When a safety concusses a wide receiver, everyone feels bad, but everyone also understands that it's just business. But that's not the FGC. Everything in the FGC is personal. And it should be personal. Without #NeverForget, "LOL REKT" sours on the tongue and leaves an empty void in the chest. "Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh," Bruce Lee once wrote. "Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him!" That's the #NeverForget of martial arts, and it works the same way in the fake martial arts that we play and watch: if we in the FGC can't lay out not just our setups and our swag combos but indeed our whole lives, then the FGC as we know it will cease to exist.I finally stopped being lazy & got this framed. From this moment on I will be framing my memories.#NeverForget #OGsquad pic.twitter.com/ZFvPe8irHP— Kenneth Bradley (@KBradJStorm) December 16, 2017
So what two words best describe the FGC? Yeah, "REKT" is one. But the other is "memories."
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