{"id":116,"date":"2012-07-21T20:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T20:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2015-07-17T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:09:43","slug":"5-video-game-stereotypes-debunked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/5-video-game-stereotypes-debunked","title":{"rendered":"5 Video Game Stereotypes Debunked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gboy.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-117\" title=\"gboy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gboy-300x202.gif\" alt=\"Grandma's Boy at LFG Dating\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gboy-300x202.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gboy.gif 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Our primary reason for creating LFG Dating was to crush video gamer stereotypes forever; gamers are looking for love just like any other niche, and we wanted to put an end to the jokes, spam, and bots to bring the gaming industry a gamer dating site that is built on something that has been sorely missed: legitimacy. \u00a0There are plenty of gamer stereotypes out there, with the most popular being \u00a0that we are anti-social, overweight nerds. \u00a0Thankfully, those stereotypes are starting to lose credibility, and we hope to eliminate them altogether with the creation of the only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/professional-dating-sites.php\" target=\"_blank\">professional<\/a>, secure, stereotype-free gamer dating site on the Internet &#8211; LFG Dating. \u00a0LFG is built for single gamers, and our homemade algorithm is built on love, not gaming (we&#8217;re all gamers here, so the focus should be on each other!). \u00a0But enough about us &#8211; let&#8217;s talk about Pam Zheng and her wonderful report on putting these video game stereotypes to rest. \u00a0Almost a year ago Pam put together a refreshing story and infographic that is nothing but pure research, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumosity.com\/blog\/5-video-game-stereotypes-debunked\/\" target=\"_blank\">you can find it right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the read, and when you&#8217;re done be sure to do what you should have done ten minutes ago and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/register.php\">register at LFG Dating<\/a>! \u00a0It&#8217;s free to signup, so what are you waiting for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our primary reason for creating LFG Dating was to crush video gamer stereotypes forever; gamers are looking for love just like any other niche, and we wanted to put an end to the jokes, spam, and bots to bring the gaming industry a gamer dating site that is built on something that has been sorely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,59,4,17,9],"tags":[83,404,82,88,405,8,86,85,52,81,84,87],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}