In most cases, the concept of 'man likes tweet' is not news/thread worthy. But when it's this man and this tweet, from today?
As a reminder about Tim Soret & The Last Night (From Polygon)
Soret has tried to backtrack a bit, but if you look at his tweets in the past year, he's still that guy. Geoff also follows Tim Soret on twitter, so it's probably not just an accidental like. And that's not Keighley's only problematic fav:
You can see their twitter friendship here:
As a reminder, Musk is anti-union, and probably got people killed duing the pandemic:
Keighley's tweeted at or about Musk several times (At least 10-20), most of them well after his anti-union stances & covid issues were very very obvious. Putting him and Todd Howard on stage together that year was also well after a lot of the shine started to come off of the Musk apple.
I post this stuff because Geoff Keighley is one of the most powerful and influential single people in the gaming industry today. Hundreds of millions of views and viewers on the shows he creates means that he has tremendous reach, and with that reach should come a certain level of responsibility. The more people he can affect, the more careful this guy should have to be with the things that he celebrates, elevates, and presents to the world. He's far from the worst person on earth, and my real end goal here is not for Geoff Keighley to be cancelled into oblivion(this is not me decrying 'cancel culture', deplatforming works), but to educate himself and really think about the implications of celebrating these absolutely harmful people.
It's really not hard to see how these things can cause tangible harm:
Imagine a young person that likes and follows Geoff, discovers Elon Musk through him, listens to Musk and doesn't take COVID seriously, and then gets an at-risk person sick. There are real consequences when popular & powerful people are careless about this kind of stuff. And 'careless' is me being generous! Geoff Keighley has a 1.3 million followers. He's got to do better than this.
I recognize that he's also used his power for good more than once, but things like this show that there is absolutely room for improvement. And this is coming from someone that mostly likes Geoff! I think his shows are well made and that he's helped cultivate/curate some cool things in the past. But that has to come second to the fact that being ignorant or apathetic to real world politics is something that can get other people hurt, when you're as influential as he is.
As a reminder about Tim Soret & The Last Night (From Polygon)
Soret has tried to backtrack a bit, but if you look at his tweets in the past year, he's still that guy. Geoff also follows Tim Soret on twitter, so it's probably not just an accidental like. And that's not Keighley's only problematic fav:
You can see their twitter friendship here:
As a reminder, Musk is anti-union, and probably got people killed duing the pandemic:
Keighley's tweeted at or about Musk several times (At least 10-20), most of them well after his anti-union stances & covid issues were very very obvious. Putting him and Todd Howard on stage together that year was also well after a lot of the shine started to come off of the Musk apple.
I post this stuff because Geoff Keighley is one of the most powerful and influential single people in the gaming industry today. Hundreds of millions of views and viewers on the shows he creates means that he has tremendous reach, and with that reach should come a certain level of responsibility. The more people he can affect, the more careful this guy should have to be with the things that he celebrates, elevates, and presents to the world. He's far from the worst person on earth, and my real end goal here is not for Geoff Keighley to be cancelled into oblivion(this is not me decrying 'cancel culture', deplatforming works), but to educate himself and really think about the implications of celebrating these absolutely harmful people.
It's really not hard to see how these things can cause tangible harm:
Imagine a young person that likes and follows Geoff, discovers Elon Musk through him, listens to Musk and doesn't take COVID seriously, and then gets an at-risk person sick. There are real consequences when popular & powerful people are careless about this kind of stuff. And 'careless' is me being generous! Geoff Keighley has a 1.3 million followers. He's got to do better than this.
I recognize that he's also used his power for good more than once, but things like this show that there is absolutely room for improvement. And this is coming from someone that mostly likes Geoff! I think his shows are well made and that he's helped cultivate/curate some cool things in the past. But that has to come second to the fact that being ignorant or apathetic to real world politics is something that can get other people hurt, when you're as influential as he is.
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