Performative Gaming

A way of showing superiority in gaming circles though usually occurs in retro gaming circles by paying a lot of money to use original hardware & software while mainly only doing it to show off on social media rather than genuine intrest in the medium. Signs include looking down upon those using modern alternative means of accessing older video games and making your entire social media page just showing off consoles and physical media. They always tend to advocate for physical media and will constantly talk about digital media being the downfall of society. This also can be only going out in public just to play older video games. These acts are also very closly associated with "cute core" and "cozy" gaming. This in turn creates a hivemind that has made game collecting far more inaccessable to the general public.

By showing off and taking pictures of the old console and software in online and public spaces, you participate in Performative Gaming.

by TOIVIATO January 11, 2026

Performafied

The act of being inspired to perform beyond expectations.

Let's get Performafied!!!!

by Madd Maggie November 11, 2012

PERFORMATIVISM

Behavior intended to gain attention, typically through shameless and even misleading statements or acts.

His Performativism was able to gain him considerable attention.

by YUCKRAKERS March 13, 2026

performatism

A paradigm that postulates that gestures are in fact-symbols.

Performatism is a motif in various sublime religions such Buddhism and Hinduism.

It insinuates that gestures are space's recollection of its own creation.

Oriental or sublime religions follow the practice of performatism. In performatism, the 1000 hands dance is the symbol of space emerging from time.

In performatism; space is time's recollection of its birth and sexual-desire is space's recollection of ITS birth. These ideas are memorialized in the Thousand Hands' Dance and Kama Sutra, respectively.

by zanderfin December 16, 2021