“HUEHUEHUE I’m BR”: spam, trolling and griefing in online games
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2015.3.19302Keywords:
Games, Brazilians, Griefer, Troll, HUEAbstract
This paper is about the reputation of aggressiveness of Brazilians in multiplayer online games, with special attention to a group known as HUEHUEs, or HUEs. It starts with descriptions of some of these players’ actions and of the ways in which they perform their identification with Brazil. The discussion progresses according to the three categories usually encountered in the literature about toxic behaviour in online environments: spamming, trolling and griefing. The conclusion is that Brazilians are not the only players to behave aggressively in multiplayer games and that the HUEHUEs are not the most violent gamers. Their actions are not a novelty on the internet, but the peculiarities of the way they act, on the other hand, differentiate those Brazilians from players of other nationalities.Downloads
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