Clankers is two words, clan wankers. In online gaming they tend to group up and target the disorganized, but primarily the solo players, they then brag about their pvp skills. They tell others that they can group up, but when faced with another group, bail. They are generally sweatys and when they say 'gg' they actually mean 'lol loser', they are mostly what people would call, Toxic.
Clanker is a slur for robots and artificial intelligence (AI) software.The term has been used in Star Wars media, first appearing in the franchise's 2005 video game Star Wars: Republic Commando. By 2025, the term had become widely used to express hatred or distaste for machines ranging from delivery robots to large language models. This trend has been attributed to anxiety around the negative societal effects of AI. No