Gamer Rage is Amazing 

Gamer Rage is a special kind of rage, gone in like 30 seconds and very confusing to anyone that hasn't experienced it before

I knew someone online who expressed his rage by blowing wildly into a harmonica. It was the funniest shit ever seeing him die then hearing harmonica noise blasting over the mic and it made everyone laugh and not take everything so seriously

Charlie: "I'm always looking for scapegoats" Also Charlie: "YOU CALM DOWN. IT WAS A MIS-INPUT"

"the addictiveness of games is not the rewards, but rather the denial of rewards" I 100% agree with this, I find myself wanting to play game after game when I'm doing bad or not progressing because I want the gratification of doing good. Ill keep losing and getting more and more angry but I still wanna keep playing just to have that one good game. Its easy to stop playing when you're winning, but once your start losing you fall off the high horse and do everything in your power to get back on it.

Rule #1 when gaming: Never go full dolphin.

"The same I thing do with my 2 year old" was a huge revelation for me unironically. When someone's getting upset and baby raging, you can't reason with them like an adult, you have to literally baby them out of it lmao

Everyone experiences "gamer rage" in some form but experiencing it alone is one of the most isolating feelings I've ever known. It comes and goes so quickly but can give off a really long lasting and poor impression.

Gamer rage is real phenomenon, was playing Yu-Gi-Oh once and instead of yelling “Fuck you” I yelled “Fuck me”. Had to sit down and rethink life at that moment. Middle school was a wild time.

We can always trust our gamer rageologist

How did that first guy not distract his teammate??

"you've sacrificed the best years of your life" is a tough sentence to hear in any setting

Charlie is so brave to be able to just disregard the sound of the ghoul breaking into his home at 3:07

Once after winning a 3 VS 3 game in Age of Mythology I told an angry guy "it's just a game" and everyone raged at me including my team mates.

I think what makes gamer rage so funny is just how pointless it is in the grand scheme of things

I’ve never commented on your videos before but i have to on this one. I’m a 60 year old female gamer and my first system was atari ( that i still have and it works). Over the years i’ve had about every system and a couple of gaming computers. I got my son into gaming and my grandsons. My son turned into a rage player and moved back home when i had cancer. Imagine being sound asleep and hearing that. Sometimes i feel like smacking him upside the head for almost giving me a heart attack. I don’t understand getting that mad. Granted I never really got into cod or fortnite or first shooter games but i play to relax not to raise my blood pressure or give myself an aneurysm. My grandsons now in their teens are starting to rage as well.

I played at a CSGO LAN a few weeks ago and the shit talking was wild, everyone was really friendly when they were not playing but when we got into the server, friendships were ended lol. Another thing is that it's the hype of playing with your teammates in person and discouraging your opponents because the LAN centers are REALLY loud.

I know gamer rage can be hilarious and entertaining to watch, but some people take it too far. I've had friends who throw games, rage quit, or even let it affect personal relationships and it suddenly becomes the dumbest, stupidest, most immature shit. I think you can read a lot into someone's character by how much they are affected by a trivial event in a make believe virtual world.

Games are made to be emotionally gripping, add some stakes, a kid transitioning into adulthood and some underlying trauma and you get the perfect gamer storm

Whenever I rage, I almost immediately laugh at myself right after, because it’s so silly at what I’m allowing to make me so damn frustrated when I look at what’s really going on. The rage is just an initial reaction before I process what’s happening. Maybe it’s like that for others too?

I've noticed that people tend to get angry when they are embarrassed. It's like they need to justify why they did something stupid. This is why, to a certain extent, road rage is usually initiated by the person who drives badly or dangerously; they know they messed up and are embarrassed by it. So not liking the feel that they've made themselves look like a fool, they try to blame someone else. In gaming, they invest so much emotional energy in the game that if - like in any - something goes wrong then they overreact. They then become embarrassed they've overreacted by something so trivial so they overreact more and so on.

I like how Charlie never breaks a smile during horrifying moments like gamer rage...

What gamer rage taught me: It's cheaper to buy a new keyboard than to find all those popped out keys

My tennis coach used to tell me that however hard you hit the ball at the wall during training, however hard it will bounce back at you. So if you decides to rage quit at the wall because you had a bad day, be ready for the probability that the ball bounced back at a certain angle and smash your face in, making you even angrier.

1:15 the guy behind him just died

I feel like Charlie’s hair stays the same length for months and then it immediately shifts to like 4 inches longer

Once I raged hard enough I actually burst out laughing at myself. I think I said something like "Why the fuck don't I just shove this controller up my ass and do some kegels? I'd probably have better luck.... fuck meeeee" or close to that. I had to stop and laugh a bit.

I had my experiences with gamer rage with my randoms yelling at me post game in League. I was a completely brand new player to League who wanted to get into what was the trend at my high school back then. It didn't even take one game for me to get on the receiving end of a gamer rage and it was a really rude one at that - he was so ignorant and kept shouting profanities at me and the only thing I could do was let him say what he could say (I stopped emphasizing gaming as a part of my life way back in 2014 and I didn't want a pointless argument with a stranger over a game). I did reply to him respectfully by saying that "it's just a casual game why are you so upset and I'm new to this game so I would like to some pointers." I don't know how this upset him to the point that it brought on a bigger rage I will not discuss here but it got to the point where I had to block him and days later delete League entirely after knowing this is a common theme within a certain demographic.

There was one time I was fighting a boss and after a while I stopped screaming actual words and just started screaming gibberish and then I got to a point where I started uncontrollably laughing like a f*cking psychopath. I’m a little concerned for my mental health looking back on that to be honest.

I remember my first time experiencing Gamer Rage, it felt like a high, like power and stress come together and you have this blood lust feeling that you love at first and then regret later. Thank you, Smash Bros Melee.

I like how when he said “sigma grindset”, Charlie almost started laughing

This actually helped me see my entire mental in a new light I never thought about why I’m raging so much and why games make me so upset thank you

5:24 I don't know why but I just expected to hear the Vsauce music kick on when he after "But Why?"

As someone who suffers from gamer rage, I try my best to make my anger as goofy as possible because I would rather my friends laugh at my pain than be uncomfortable. Them having a good time makes me feel better, the joy comes back around. I also mostly play single player sand boxes for my own sanity-

I had a roommate in college that raged while playing League. I can still feel how scared and viscerally stressed my gf and I would get with how loud he would yell and smash his keyboard. It was most definitely not fun experiencing it irl. I couldn't believe his keyboard didn't break. And this guy was around 24 at the time.

1:15 What makes that clip more priceless is the guy in the background almost dying from laughter.

This hits me hard because a few years ago I had the worst internet ever. I would constantly lag no matter what time of day it was. I participated in this low-key Halo tourney because I enjoyed this particular game-mode, but on a causal level. When it came down to having to actually play well the game had other plans for me and I yelled into my mic so often that looking back at it now I’m so embarrassed because that’s not who I am. I am currently back to having terrible internet and I haven’t touched my PC in months.

I haven’t seen the whole video yet so forgive me if this is talked about but I really wanted to share: In college one of my capstone classes was “the Psychology of passion” and in that class we talked about how some peoples passion can be detrimental to their mental health because they become “obsessive passions”, in which the person associates their personality and their “self” with the passion. I think this is a huge reason why gamer rage occurs, because most of these people are, as you said, good at the game, and it’s often all they do, this puts it on track to become an obsessive passion, and they associate their “self” with the game AND their PERFORMANCE in it. Which is why some people blow up at such seemingly little things, because to them, it’s damaging their self-image There’s a LOT more to it but that’s the synopsis have a great day everyone and don’t forget the breathe :) TLDR: People get so into the game they associate it with their image of their “self”, and thus poor performance or being out-played damages their “self-image” so they react in an aggressive way People can avoid this by many things but a HUGE help is to have other hobbies, so all of your time and self-image isn’t condensed into one passion. Ok I’m done now everyone have a great day!

As a little kid I would cry uncontrollably whenever my Sims died. Not because I cared about the sim, but because I was scared of the grim Reaper and his scary tune. Does that count as gamer rage?

I am so happy that you are covering things like this.

2:36 bro sounds like Yondu talking to Quill

Gamer Rage is like universal language. Doesn’t matter where your from or your circumstances in life, it’s something we can all relate to on some level.

I wasn't expecting the genuinely insightful commentary from that discussion- that makes SO much sense and applies to so many other life contexts.

i observed the same in fps games as Dr. K, he explains the team psyche dynamic so nice. I love when the team spirit takes over in a game where there was full blown frustration from one or more players. nudge it the right way and you can turn the minds and the entire match towards positivity and success. wont help in all cases but hell its like real life magic seeing the team spirit change the entire experience and results.

This video helped me overcome my gamer rage thanks charlie and dr k love you guys!

Nothing quite like hearing the eardrum destroyer a split second before you hear the peaceful sound of nothingness because your ears were erased from existence by that power move

Charlie's face at 03:40 was the maximum amount of emotion we will ever get

One of my guilty pleasures was watching WoW rage videos. I can't really explain why it's so enthralling, but...man. It's such an adventure.

I remember binge watch gaming rage compilations like Tyler1 and Dellor for example. Those were the days

I lowkey raged at a Smash tournament because I was losing, and seeing the clip shared reminded me that I need to compose myself 😭😭

getting mad at a game is so embarrassing for me personally. to just absolutely blow up and walk out of the room and see my gf looking at me like a two year old hits different

During OG destiny era, every time I was killed by thorn (super OP weapon for those who don’t know) I became beyond infuriated. But due to the fact it was the dominant weapon at the time, I legit just built an incredible tolerance to gamer raging after hours and hours of dying to the damn thing.

Charlie: “I know gamer rage.” Fighting Game Community: “That’s cute.”

Charlie, this is the best PSA you have ever put out. Toxicity in gaming is the worst thing about the hobby, and learning to deal with it both as the rager and the one who wants to calm down the rager.

the product placement in the end which so perfectly timed ! We could see Charlie's expression. He really felt how not awkward it was right xD ?

I'm a girl with a really girlie voice and years ago I was once playing a game called COD with a group of boys and girls and one of them started calling me slurs and threatened to r@pe and murder me once he breaks into my house because I told him "calm down its just a game, it's not that serious" while he was raging over another guy in our team for "not playing good" But after he threatened me literally everyone just started screaming at him to stfu but that made him even more angry and he went on a really long rant over r@ping everyone's moms and sisters and even dog like WTF. SMH. We had to mute him out.

RU-vid trends pass and go, but rage compilations never get old

The thing about being given the reward and denied the reward makes a lot of sense. There are some games that go against that sort of game design like puzzle games. With puzzle games they don't have any sense of being denied the reward. Any time you get close to solving the puzzle but not quite getting it, it's more a sense of progress. There isn't really any sense of losing. With Dark Souls you may make progress but you will die in the process & then you have to start again. So that's more of a sense of being denied the reward.

“He went full dolphin” had me dead 💀

Love you buddy boi it's awesome to see you develop your following by going into it not just laughing

I used to rage when I was younger but as I got older I realized that getting mad makes me worse so I just taught myself ways to not get mad at menial things and just recognize what I did wrong.

seeing my kids play fortnite and roblox have shown me that gamer rage is a natural instinct. you know you’re getting old when you grow out of it

It's really amazing to see this channel grow in millions subscribe, Charlie You really deserve this success... 💯💯💯

Wow hats off to Dr K. Hes creating a really good place to learn and vent for people who struggle with the psychological issues competitive games propose.

I was having a bad day on Mahjong Soul today and I'm from a German speaking part of Italy and it was probably the first time people on Discord heard me rage in German today. I am still confused why I raged in German because I grew up in an English speaking school and was born in England. Literally never happened before but only German came to my mind, and I've never spoken it so cleanly in my life.

I think extreme gamer rage is encouraged by the climate of ultra competitive multiplayer games that has been cultivated over the last decade or so. We need more games with healthy communities centered around social gameplay. People will still be toxic of course but we need games that don’t encourage toxicity or even make players feel isolated from the community.

Everything dr. K said about gaming is literally the exact same thing as golf, you can never stop getting better but when you finally hit that one shot then it’s incredibly gratifying

It is hilarious to watch when youre not the one on the call enduring your teammates screaming and fighting. I was doin a OSRS tob run and my teammate fucked up in the first room (no big deal and no one cared) but the guy got SO MAD at himself he started screaming and smashing his own stuff and trashed his room and we all just kinda sat there in awkward silence listening to the commotion. It was terrifying and i was shaking for like an hour afterwards. I can only imagine how scary it would be in person...

I think being supportive works for a few reasons: >even if you lost, you feel like the team pulled together and gave it a good effort >when someone else is calm in a stressful situation, you feel like things are under control or at least you're okay as long as they're okay >helping your team when you can takes some of the burden off them, even if you're not doing a ton to help them then it at least relieves some of the psychological burden

If charlie says he is an expert, HE IS A DAMN EXPERT

As someone who went to all of these cod lans...these clips are all toward the end with 1 or 2 setups. Walk in there during prime time when 8-12 setups are running games. Absolute madness

Man ive always had headaches, last 2 years they got worse. So I finally figured out a game I was playing was making me stress out to a point it would take my headache and send it to the moon. I cut the game completely out and I've not had a single one of those debilitating headaches. Greatest decision I ever made with my mental health was cutting it and not looking back

I used to rage a lot at games, and looking back I realized that it was because I wanted so desperately to win so I could prove to myself and others that I was good. I knew that raging didn't make me feel any better and sure it was funny to some of the friends I played with, but it ended up being more annoying and bad to my mental health than simply being some kind of thing I could use to blow off some steam. It is possible to stop raging at games but it comes as form of practice with yourself in admitting defeat and accepting that there is always room to grow. I feel bad for the people who had to endure my countless fits for nothing and for the people who still do rage, and although it is funny to watch, I still hate how it's just something that not all people can help and that it ruins more than it builds.

Getting older and learning to take breaks or switch games when frustrated made a huge difference for me. I think a big part is regaining a feeling of control by choosing to do something other than bang your head against a wall in or out of the game.

When talking about talent vs learned skill, I'd say to some degree, that some form of legitimate talent needs to be at play. Natural talent with hand coordination, natural talent for hand/eye coordination, natural talent for learning the skills needed in-game, etc, etc. There has to be some form of natural talent involved. Ideally, I'd say there's a balance of skill and talent. The more equal the balance, the better

Gamer rage is easily my most watched content on RU-vid in the recent years. There's just something about watching people lose their shit over a video game that tickles my funny bone SO hard xD

Charlie made a good point. You always get angry from losing to the things you know you can do better than the average at. What a reflective moment for me 💀A hard pill to swallow for most people; there will always be someone who can do something better than you

Gotta say I love the sweet cadence LTG delivers his gamer rage.

This is the goal I’ve been reaching for in my streams kill rage with kindness and humour, great thought process

Competitive gaming might actually be interesting if they were still allowed to rage and scream at each other. Dunno when that became taboo it used to be a big draw.

i love to laugh at and mock the angry gamers while blissfully ignoring all the times i've wanted to smash a chair into the wall out of anger due to being unable to dodge an attack

1:32 "Sounded like Alvin and the chipmunks possessed my vocal cords" 💀

It all comes down to people not dealing with the lack of control they are experiencing. Whether that be from being in a team of people who don't listen or from you making a mistake and trying to then remedy the mistake, with everything going down hill regardless of how well you think you are doing. When you are calm and in control, everything flows. When you are agitated or uncomfortable, you are facing something unexpected and you've lost control. Being agitated is one of the first steps to learning. Most people don't see it as learning and instead, take the first emotion that arises, which is always anger and use it as an escape. The same concept applies to almost every instance in life. And then some people are legit just toxic which is usually determined by outside influences. Lack of control just fuels that fire. The thrill is in the hunt, not the kill. It's not some hidden secret that humans enjoy the journey of hunting rather than the reward. Hence the denial of the reward being addictive.

As someone who used to rage quite frequently as a teenager and still on rare occasion now as a adult I can confidently say if you rage at a game to the point your causing damage to yourself or things around you, that has nothing to do with games that you having a lack of control over your emotions. Its a temporary burst of emotions that you were unable to fight back with logic such as weighing the cost of the item your about to destroy. I'm glad I was able to dial back my emotions as I got older. It saved me money and it genuinely made my life alot simpler and easier both in and out of video games. Plus I've noticed I enjoyed games more when I try my best and I am satisfied with the outcome no matter win or lose.

2:43 I don't know what's so funny about him saying the "parents made him" line" but it just set me off laughing

I’ve had my moments but that first guy really went back in time before puberty to unleash the most powerful rage I’ve seen, only second to those who break their monitors or systems. Then he came back.

Fascinating watch, haven't gotten through the whole video yet but I had to comment. I used to have gamer-rage, but I've been in recovery and sober about 5 years now. 😊 There is definitely a lot of shame and embarrassment that comes with gamer-rage, especially if witnessed by your significant other. Would recommend anyone that experiences gamer-rage to seek help with it, life is significantly better after those rages are gone.

This was actually a really cool video. Also, very cool of you to keep in the advertisement that Dr. K did 👌

i witnessed a good one today in TF2, in the lobby that we were in there were a bunch of people spamming voicelines and using soundboards in voicechat and this one guy, who i assume doesnt know how to mute people, was getting agitated by it and requested that they would please stop. but because they were gamers they proceeded to ignore him and for like the next couple of rounds we heard nothing from him. but eventually he cracked and in the middle of a round he just started screaming and cursing them out and begging them to stop (which they didnt). me and my friends didnt hear anything from him for the rest of the session but it was very entertaining

I usually dont have a mic when playing because its just rage but one game, oh man. Everyone started arguing we were losing all lanes and i was just sitting back listening until one of them very angrily yelled "you tell me what to do then" and the guy yelled back some build changes and the tone slowly changed to civil and they all started working together and pretended they werent just yelling insults 30seconds ago and we came back and won and its one of the most special gaming moments ive ever experienced.

An important thing about High levels pubs toxicity is the player pool is much much much smaller than low level so people end up running into the same players and it can get more personal as you play against familiar players consistently and rivalries can even occur

In my experience. I've taken ownership of mistakes in my life,even when someone else was the cause of the failure. Sometimes it's humbling, other times I'm told that I'm being a pushover. Same goes for me being easy going and not letting much get to me. There are a lot of things going on in the world,that are a lot worse than my situation. When I think of a pushover, I think of someone who literally goes out of their way to do someone else's job all the time. Either out respect,fear or admiration. Sometimes at work,I'll go outside my job description, because I know my coworkers work several jobs. I work 2 part time,but if I'm not tired and stressed out. I'll lend a hand outside of my duties to give them a break. It's annoying as hell to be told by friends or family that it's considered being a pushover,when I'm simply trying to give someone a break. It's not on a consistent basis,if it were, then I'd tell them. No. I have my own work to do and I'm tired myself. Either way. It varies. Sometimes you should own up to mistakes. In video games that's a whole level different than things outside of the video game. A lot less likely to come off as a pushover. It's just a game.

I play a lot of chess and can completely relate to this a lot. A lot of the time though, I go on a chain of losses because I just keep making basic mistakes and it took me a while to realise that I need to take ownership of the moves I'm making. Off late I tanked 200 elo points and it pisses me off but it's also good to take a break from it cos it's actually affected me so much in a negative way.

I remember one time at a swim meet a fellow team mate (wouldn't call him a friend but we didn't dislike each other or anything) got disqualified, it was a very specific technicality so they had to get the ref involved, and when they announced it he slapped the water super hard and screamed 'F***CK' and got in so much trouble 😂

The background guys laughing at the dude raging in the first clip😭

Myself and a friend of mine used to do a bit of raging in fps games (not full on screaming but still a bit bad), now instead when we die to some bs we give the party chat our best pleasure moan. It's genuinely hard to be angry and moan like that at the same time + it makes people laugh

5:25 dr k! 12:00 😂 13:06 13:35 14:20 dam 15:55 effort in a lot of diff places: comms, managing egos, team thinking 17:25 18:15 toxic high ranked 18:55 feeling like u've sacrificed compassion bc its tough 21:17 addictiveness due to DENIAL of rewards 21:27 😂😂 22:02 22:28 if things too easy: boring too hard: quit addictive: almost, just keep going 23:15

Not videogames, but with paintball, I joined a team in college. I am now joining a team in the MSXL. You gain skill much faster when you are able to have formal practices, proper coaching, running drills, and really analyze and work on your skills and especially teamwork. As an individual, i am not that good. When i play as part of a team, we work together as a unit. We know each others strengths and weaknesses. We know how to work together. Playing recreational can only get your so far in terms of skill level.

I remember my friends and I were raging so hard (it was a sweaty close game) 😂 of black ops 2 and we just starting dying of laughter from how mad we were. It was beautiful.

Gamer rage is hilarious especially in fighting games catching someone slipping or lose to chip damage is amazing 🤣

I had to give up gaming because even as a grown man i still rage terribly at games over the slightest inconvenience. Even my favorites that i know front to back, i always end up getting pissed and way too angry over something i should find relaxing.