‘I’ve been called the N-word, I’ve been asked if I can twerk on camera, someone has told me to go and make them some chicken. This is all whilst gaming online via chat. It’s disgusting.'
– based on a character from Sonic the Hedgehog, but it’s like a Ugandan version and would take the mick out of African accents and make jokes about Ebola.’‘These experiences are happening to this day,’ says Jay-Ann. ‘So many of our members post videos where they are being targeted because people can tell they’re a black woman via the voice chat. They will just get called the N-word, particularly if they’re not playing like the other gamers want them to play.
These aren’t unfounded fears. This type of racial abuse is happening with alarming regularity to black female gamers.found that two-thirds of gamers have experienced serious harassment while playing online, much of it involving racist threats. It’s also an incredibly hard problem to police, and thousands of incidents aren’t being followed up or monitored by the authorities.
‘Finding people who are as vocal as I am can be difficult because a lot of people tend to assimilate when they get into the room,’ says Jay-Ann. ‘To be a black person in this industry often means not being able to speak up about an issue, or being shut down if you try to raise it.
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