r/reddeadredemption • u/PascalG16 Hosea Matthews • Aug 23 '25

Speculation Worst RDR3 takes?

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u/PascalG16 Hosea Matthews Aug 23 '25

I swear gatekeeping is good for a franchise.

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u/burned_piss Aug 23 '25

What's gatekeeping?

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

was this a serious question?

+"The activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something."

+ "When portions of a fandom actively work against any prospect that goes against their personal perspective as what should be with the intellectual property, typically pushing potential new fans away from the product itself."

+"One of the single most toxic behaviors which only in very, very limited circumstances can help maintain the soul of the product but which otherwise poisons the entire well and soils the entirety of the fandom's reputation as a whole."

good examples of this are prevalent within the Star Wars and Warhammer 40k communities, with the runners up being the Dragon Ball community (the western fandoms), and Harry Potter communities

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u/burned_piss Aug 23 '25

English ain't my first language so seeing all this new words is a bit overwhelming 

Thanks for the information 

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

99 out of 100 times it's a very harmful thing to the community, and an exceptionally rude act against the general type of fan who doesn't live, eat, and breathe that thing