‘GloriousPC Gaming Race’ is rebranding to ‘Glorious’ out of belated shame
by Sean Hollister from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YBC1)
In 2008, the fast-talking expletive-spewing video game reviewer Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation coined the phrase The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race," joking about how snobbish PC gamers allegedly looked down upon their dirty console playing peasant" counterparts. (I remember it being quite funny at the time.)
Then, something unfortunate happened: the PC gaming community decided to brand itself that way. PC Gaming Master Race" became the community's biggest subreddit, and in 2014, some guy also decided he'd use it to sell mousepads, mice, and keyboards to people, Nazi-era connotations be damned.
Some guy has now realized the error of his ways - and so his company, Glorious PC Gaming Race," is ditching the name. It's just Glorious" now;...