Where you ever bullied for being a Gamer ?

[Retro Doomer]

I heard back in the day there was a lot of bullying primarily in School when you enjoyed video games as it was seen as anti social a looser hobby for children and nerds as they call it.

I myself never really witnessed such thing and I grew up early to mid 2000s but I was lucky enough I guess to had classmates who also enjoyed Video Games we often played NDS together Worms to be precise.
Anyhow I am not aware however how it was in the rest of the School one dick once hit my NDS and made it fall down (Its been a while back I think it was like that,but I don't think it was for me being a Gamer and more so because he was a dick)

So this is what I am wondering where you ever being mistreated aka bullied for openly being a Video Gamer in your youth or adult life be it at School or at Work ?

at least for what I can tell is that it is not a prevalent anymore since it became ''Mainstream'' and many people like Games nowadays..this explains why those soulless slop games sell so darn well because the Tourists outnumber real gamers by a large margin.
Anyhow its been a while however since I attended School I know I am a old fart but the point stands I can't say how it is nowadays maybe you get bullied for not watching Skibiddy toilet or something nowadays who knows.

 

[Rocket2049]

i mean, did people say i was a "nerd" and all that absolutely
i spent my time with the other fellow gamers and nerds so really not that bad.
but some people took the gaming too far...
i don't think anyone deserves to be bullied, but...

I knew a guy who was an absolute hardcore gamer, you know, the kinda who wavedash on smash at every opportunity, overlap everyone else on mario kart, perfect IV all their pokemon and perfect every counter giving you absolutely no room to win, and go for infinites in marvel vs capcom every chance they get.

the one particular A-hole in my high school, everybody hated him, we had game meetings during lunch and after school and he' was always there, nobody wanted him there, he was such a tryhard, smartass, like allaround annoying person to be around. even other fellow gamers hated him
i mean like, we tried to setup game meets in secret, it was THAT BAD, we had to keep changing where we hang out. and he was just an asshole regardless, i just gamed with my close friends and left it at that.

one time i managed a win against him in smash melee, and i was in the zone and happy and all that and he was a complete asshole for like 20 minutes (the whole lunch period) talking shit like "1v1 me no items and see what happens" kinda dick. i BLEW up on him so hard and swear to god the rest of the room was like "F*** you stop being an asshole" and all that, and well... he just stopped showing up to all our gaming hangouts entirely.
such a dick and i it still bugs me to this day (since 2006) and no idea what happened to him after that but yeah he deserved it, i won, i'm not even GOOD at smash bros, i DON'T know how to wavedash, none of that crap. it was a lucky win, that's all... comes in my mind anytime i play smash bros

 

[Retro Doomer]

i mean, did people say i was a "nerd" and all that absolutely
i spent my time with the other fellow gamers and nerds so really not that bad.
but some people took the gaming too far...
i don't think anyone deserves to be bullied, but...

I knew a guy who was an absolute hardcore gamer, you know, the kinda who wavedash on smash at every opportunity, overlap everyone else on mario kart, perfect IV all their pokemon and perfect every counter giving you absolutely no room to win, and go for infinites in marvel vs capcom every chance they get.

the one particular A-hole in my high school, everybody hated him, we had game meetings during lunch and after school and he' was always there, nobody wanted him there, he was such a tryhard, smartass, like allaround annoying person to be around. even other fellow gamers hated him
i mean like, we tried to setup game meets in secret, it was THAT BAD, we had to keep changing where we hang out. and he was just an asshole regardless, i just gamed with my close friends and left it at that.

one time i managed a win against him in smash melee, and i was in the zone and happy and all that and he was a complete asshole for like 20 minutes (the whole lunch period) talking shit like "1v1 me no items and see what happens" kinda dick. i BLEW up on him so hard and swear to god the rest of the room was like "F*** you stop being an asshole" and all that, and well... he just stopped showing up to all our gaming hangouts entirely.
such a dick and i it still bugs me to this day (since 2006) and no idea what happened to him after that but yeah he deserved it, i won, i'm not even GOOD at smash bros, i DON'T know how to wavedash, none of that crap. it was a lucky win, that's all... comes in my mind anytime i play smash bros

Dang that sounds annoying as fuck,luckily I did not have someone like that show up when I and the homies played Worms on the NDS but I had a annoying kid who wanted to borrow a Ps2 game from me He and I did not really get along and I did not like him either nor did I trust him also well he made it very clear he is supposed to hate me since I am American and so on,so yes I did not fancy his company.

And it was mind boggling after such a statement expecting me to borrow him any games like at all that was my one School, but I switched Schools late on anyway and sadly at my next School we never played Video Games together one was a fellow Gamer the other one I have no clue in my new friend group.(Which was small 2 People) 3 with me included
Sadly we hardly could play together since he was a PC Gamer (Minecraft) and I was a Console Kid I also got later Minecraft out of curiosity. but the Ps3 version which has no cross platform.

I did get sometimes bullied tho but not because I am a gamer not sure why exactly I was the new kid many times that likely did not help.(I was in 6 different Schools,yes it was shitty)

 

[Spyrone]

No. It seems that while Halo was still regarded as nerdy somehow everybody had their favorite franchises and the like. People were more likely to jump you because you borrowed a copy of BioShock and didn't get it back to them in time than to piss on you because you liked nerdy video games.