National Video Games Day was Thursday 7th July, 2020. A day where people in the gaming community can reflect on what video games mean to them. For me, video games are a way of staying in touch with friends I no longer live close to and provides an escape from the everyday stresses of the world. It's clear that I'm not the only one, with #ThanksToVideoGames making waves on Twitter, people from all over the world shared their own reasons to be grateful for having video games in their lives. My curiosity got the better of me; I wanted to find out more about why people were grateful for video games and I wanted to show people that (shockingly) gamers can also be very sincere online. I created this visualisation of the most common words that appeared in tweets with #ThanksToVideoGames to show the different themes coming through in discussions on Twitter. Make sure you hit the full screen icon to show the full picture; you c
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