Every time there is a new game coming out. I go into Social media and what I see is “this game is woke because two dudes are kissing and there is a black protagonists, delete and refund” There are so many people that seem to care about it that I start to wonder if I am the insane one?
like Do these people genuinely believe that artists will stop being political and talk about their beliefs just because you said you don’t like it? or that games will stop being “woke” because like, 3 games flopped for reasons OTHER THAN it was “woke”
Let’s ignore the story quality, graphical fidelity, optimization, gameplay quality, etc… Oh, no! The only reason why this succeeded is because that character has a fat ass! The reason for why that game has failed is because this character said they were non-binary!
like, Just how are people are not tired of this shit? This debate is about as deep as a puddle, has no consequence on real life, and the roots of this debate is based on ignorance and assumptions.
Hell, I got told that the Oblivion remaster was great and “not woke” because it sold more on Steam than AC Shadows Shadows and Dragon Age Veilguard
But also that Oblivion is “woke” for removing male and female and replacing it with Body Type 1/2
In the same reddit thread
I’ve just started blocking the woke-o-sphere warriors on steam. If you try to engage even on good faith, they will report you and try to get you banned. Got a warning from valves defending queers against anti woke idiots once. So I just block the assholes on sight now.
I do have a feeling once the reich wears out woke like they did SJW will find a new term.
That’s a fun exercise what is going to be the new “woke” once Trump’s term is over and Democrats are now right of
?They going to recycle hippies?
They’ve been doing this shit for 12 years
I go into Social media
The word in itself is pretty meaningless. They use it to refer to anything they consider left wing, but using “woke” instead of “left-wing” gives it an air of illegetimacy, like something newly made up. Like, they wouldn’t say that the BPP was woke, but might consider that a movie about them is. You could say the meanings are different because “woke” is more about culture, not about economy or revolt against physical conditions… But that’s the point, they try to reduce politics to only “culture wars”. Because making up narratives around that is easier to them than having a class analysis.
Hell, I got told that the Oblivion remaster was great and “not woke” because it sold more on Steam than AC Shadows Shadows and Dragon Age Veilguard
But also that Oblivion is “woke” for removing male and female and replacing it with Body Type 1/2
In the same reddit thread
Nice little encapsulation of how incoherent the culture war right is.
Every time someone complains about something being woke, I create 10 more genders. #DarkWoke
I’m just tired of hearing from westerners in general.
The culture is spread throughout the world. Sadly even if you eliminated the west, that rhetoric is very much alive everywhere else.
The views aren’t limited to the West, even if they originate from the West. In a gaming community I moderate, the first person to bring up DEI was a user from Bangladesh. On Wikidata, the person to mark games as not recommended by a certain Steam curator run by a Brazilian was a Russian.
i think a cultural rebound is coming.
this “anti-wokism” can’t have absolute power, basically being The State, and still be this edgy subversive shit at the same time.
At the same time, they do currently control the algos and armies of convincing chatbots so people might just increasingly check out of this nonsense but there will be the illusion of massive engagement
so definitely uncharted territory. we are truly in the era of Unreality
this “anti-wokism” can’t have absolute power, basically being The State, and still be this edgy subversive shit at the same time.
This reminds me of one of the things I find most annoying about CHUDs: they portray themselves as rebels smashing the system when they are, in fact, the system.
The reprieve from the south park slur-humor came with the bernie-campaign and trump winning mich made the easily tricked and libs into wannabe revolutionaries.
