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Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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The drama with helldivers was because fascists saw the over the top campy depiction of fascism and unironically agreed with it. They had no idea they were the ones being lampooned. You should look at the reactions when they found out the devs were actually not fascists. They were distraught.
Please could you provide some examples? I've legitimately never seen someone upset at the devs for not literally being fascists.
If I have to go out of my way to find this, I'm assuming it falls under the "loud" minority group. I'm sure these people exist, but it'd surprise me if they made up a significant amount of the over 12 million players.
Edit: Had a further look, there seems to be more people complaining about people taking it literally than people actually taking it literally. I did find like 3 Reddit posts, but all had 0 upvotes and like 30 comments telling them they're wrong and stupid
https://youtu.be/mj19jSHxtoA
Specifically starship troopers, but you know what kickstarted that discussion again. Also a bunch of Twitter discourse. Reddit is generally left adjacent. You won't find too much fash shit there.
Sorry man, but that's a relatively milk toast YouTube video with 81k views. Definitely very right leaning, but outright fascist is a bit much. She clearly has no media literacy or is deliberately misleading people.
Her latest video got only 11k views, and most of her titles look like some right wing grifter shit like "Ben Shapiro SILENCES Candace Owens, CANCELS Debate?".
And I'm sure that right wing grifters will use this for content, that's what they do.
I wouldn't say that shows anything more than a loud minority. Honestly 81k views is lower than I expected and more proves my point