![]() ![]() "There's a Wild West mentality on the Internet that you just deal with."Īt first glance, Dennis Fong rules a quaint adolescent subculture, albeit a very violent one that some have blamed for desensitizing users to bloodshed. "People try to bait me into playing," said the soft-spoken cyberkiller. So he's a natural target for desktop punks who want to make a quick reputation. He has earned $250,000 in prize money, endorsement fees and book royalties from a realm where the object is often as simple as killing as many cartoon gladiators as possible in an online "theater." He has won a red Ferrari and has been immortalized in his own trading card. The trash talk comes with the virtual turf he rules as the world's only "professional" player of computer games.įong, 22, is yet another of this era's unlikely Nerds Transcendent sprung from basement obscurity by the global reach of the Internet. Dennis Fong Is Leading an Online Subculture Into the MainstreamīERKELEY, Calif.It's a mark of Dennis Fong's superhero status that he gets daily e-mails from strangers telling him he's total garbage. ![]()
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