Gamers used to be part of an exclusive club that made references to characters and spoke a language only gamers understood, but gaming is now such a normal part of our lives that these days everybody is doing it.
As you can see in this comic by JHALL it's really hard to be a young non-gamer, because when everyone including your mom is an avid gamer you're now part of a much sadder and lonelier club full of bored kids with weak thumbs.
-Via Dorkly