The defeat of a Chinofarmeo company in World of Warcraft that ended Trump of President

What if I tell you that one of the men who has most influenced the planet in recent years has been thanks to having dealt with World of Warcraft players? Few contemporary individuals are more disturbingly fascinating than the American Steve Bannon . In addition to getting rich when getting a participation in the Seinfield series when it was in its first seasons, and working as a brocker at Goldman Sachs, surely it sounds to you for having been the head of strategy that led Donald Trump to the White House, or for Support ultra-right movements in Europe.

• The Wow community against IgE
• The Gamer community fell in love with Bannon
• The frogs are loaded by the devil

The previous president of the United States noticed Bannon for his work at Breitbart News , a news website affiliated with the alt-righ of that country. And the opening of that website would arrive after taking a defeat of the hands of the World of Warcraft community, at which time he learned a great lesson: the Gamer community, mostly composed of white men, could be a very powerful political force.

The Wow community against IgE

Everything starts in the mid-2000s, when Bannon starts working in a company based on Hong Kong called Internet Gaming Entertainment , abbreviated IGE . This company was dedicated to a task as gray as using people for these played World of Warcraft (with salaries as small as 25 cents per hour), where they would get resources such as gold, pets, weapons and armor. These resources would be sold in the real world to players willing to get them in exchange for money. A colloquial known practice as Chinofarmeo.

Although this goes against the terms and conditions of use of a modern video game, IGE achieved an investment of 60 million dollars by Goldman Sachs . It would not help much, because the rest of the players would begin to organize in Internet forums to get the attention of Blizzard, a video game developer. So much so that a Florida player named Antonio Hernández denounced IGE.

These players did not consider correct that to get the same level as those who paid for the best available pieces of armor or huge amounts of gold, they had to invest a lot of hours, reaching a competitive and social imbalance within the MMO of the US study. Such was the situation that Blizzard came up and began to ban accounts of those who performed these abusive practices.

The Gamer community fell in love with Bannon

Joshua Green , Author of the book devil's bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the story of the presidenty,something like The devil's business: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the assault of the presidency in Spanish, he tells like this:Bannon felt captivated by what he had discovered while managing a business: a underworld who did not know that it existed and that was populated by millions of young people with the emotions to the flower (most players were men) that disappeared for days or even weeks in alternative realities .

It is ironic that Bannon achieved the recipe for victory in after suffering a defeat in the hands of Blizzard, a company that would later be acquired by the Activision of Bobby Kotick , a manager who has donated huge amounts to political representatives of Trump's rope and some who have recently celebrated the decision of the Supreme Court in the United States against abortion.

The frogs are loaded by the devil

Bannon was key in Trump's victory during those elections against Hilary Clinton, completing a great comeback against the surveys of recent months. Beyond being accurate when appealing to the worker of deep America and putting the debate against the big corporations, the stablishment and the big cities, Bannon was responsible for having the debate clouded.

And there enters everything learned during that stage. The use of platforms and forums full of the gamer profile such as 4Chan , were key in the 2017 Republican victory, and which have ended up germinating in cases such as the Take by the strength of the Capitol in early 2021, they also pass for facts that may seem anecdotal. I mean the appropriation of a meme like The Rana Pepe , explained wonderfully in the documentary film Feels Good Man.

A few years ago we told you how a video game like World of Warcraft can be used for good , such as to study group dynamics in the middle of a pandemic, as happened with corrupt blood. But just as this served to understand how to combat the coronavirus, World of Warcraft was also a lever at the service of evil , specifically to create a key person when understanding the crisis of democracy in the West.