{"id":3550,"date":"2017-11-07T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2017-11-07T09:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:09:44","slug":"gamers-bullied-and-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3550","title":{"rendered":"Gamers, bullied and hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article caught my attention a few weeks ago on UK TV.<\/p>\n<p>According to this report which was sponsored by Habbo, an online vintage pixel-art style virtual community, 38% of gamers have been hacked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3551\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/habbo2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/habbo2017.jpg 603w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/habbo2017-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A deeper dive into the data reveals that the source was taken from 2515 young people aged 12-25 in the actual Habbo game.\u00a0 This tiny sample is a poor representation of the Global gaming industry and to the casual viewer of the article, 38% is a pretty high percentage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/InGameAbuse.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can download the actual 2017 report here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As usual, the media falls into the easy alarmist viewpoint on gaming reinforcing the stereotype.\u00a0 There are many sources out there that confirm the average age of gamers to be between 35-38, these and other facts contradict the tardy image gamers are burdened with.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really usual to see a positive article on Gaming in general and Gamers are not generally bothered about their image. Maybe they should be.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3553\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3553 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tie-690084_1280-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tie-690084_1280-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tie-690084_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tie-690084_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tie-690084_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical gamers have jobs, families and mortgages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article caught my attention a few weeks ago on UK TV. According to this report which was sponsored by Habbo, an online vintage pixel-art style virtual community, 38% of gamers have been hacked. A deeper dive into the data reveals that the source was taken from 2515 young people aged 12-25 in the actual &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=3550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gamers, bullied and hacked&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,60],"tags":[85,94],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-manhood","tag-fatherhood","tag-money-and-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3557,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}