The movement known as “Gamergate 2” has been in the news cycle for quite a while now
Has it? I don't get all my news from right wing chuds on YouTube so I haven't seen much about it.
I literally just learned about it last night. A lot of it is just obvious conspiracy bullshit though. As far as I'm aware it all centers around one consultation studio being responsible for every single "woke" thing in modern games.
It's either that or the fact that they censored someone's camel toe in a game I haven't heard of until last night.
I literally just learned about it last night. A lot of it is just obvious conspiracy bullshit though. As far as I’m aware it all centers around one consultation studio being responsible for every single “woke” thing in modern games.
It all started, when two Sweet Baby employees (Chris Kindred and Felix Kramer) started a mass flag campaign against a Steam curator page. The curator page tells people what games Sweet Baby worked on. By giving sources from Sweet Baby themselves and the developers they worked with. The curator page was made on the 29th of January. The two Sweet Baby employees tweets are from 29th of February. So the curator page was an thing for a month without harassment or problems. Before it got tweeted out. Basically all of this is a classic case of the Streisand Effect. If the Sweet Baby employees never made tweets about it. Safe bet, the curator page and group would have lost traction early and remained in obscurity.
One more thing, Chris Kindred wanted people to mass flag the Steam user's account who made the curator page. What didn't help things too.
It’s either that or the fact that they censored someone’s camel toe in a game I haven’t heard of until last night.
Stellar Blade is the game you're talking about. It's about the double standards shown by Sony.
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The Abby and Owen sex scene in The Last of Us Part 2 is okay, but Eve wearing something skimpy is too far?
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Why did Baldurs Gate 3 get applauded for selling itself on bear sex but a fully clothed anime girl's butt is too far?
It's all about the double standards.
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There's been a number of articles about it a while ago on videogame journalism websites
https://kotaku.com/sweet-baby-inc-consulting-games-alan-wake-2-dei-1851312428
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24104799/gamergate-2024-sweet-baby-inc-diversity
https://theweek.com/culture-life/personal-technology/games/gamergate-2-extremism-video-games
https://www.wired.com/story/sweet-baby-video-games-harassment-gamergate/
AFAIK they do still put out articles about it but I suppose it's not as much of a hot topic today
What's Gamergate 2, Electric Boogaloo about?
Something something women something? But further empowered by the ease with which conservative and/or fascist nutjobs can support each other globally now.
Disclosure I identify with the movement, hence bias
Thing started off February 29 when Chris Kindred, the narrative designer at Sweet Baby Inc, a videogame consulting company, called for a mass report campaign against the steam curator group (and its owner) "Sweet Baby Inc Detected", which exist to highlight steam games in which the company has some involvement. Chris called it a harrassment group and claimed that it breaks steam's terms of service.
This got a lot of eyes on the group which balooned in membership, right wingers/ old gamergaters latched onto it and I think it's fair to say that this Sweet baby Inc detected group is the main Gamergate 2 community. As time goes on the movement isn't just campaigning against this one company, but against many similiar consultation groups (Black Girl Gamers/Gaymers for example) and the concept of ESG funding in general.
Ah okay. Only today I read a community post, of a game journalist on YouTube, which reported that this Sweet Baby Inc Detected Group reminded the twitter crowd that Zua (I believe that was the title) by a kenian developer got released. And the comments were super riled up.
All I can say is that I'm sad that those right wingers and bigost use so much of their energy against something that threatens their small and privileged worldview.
Thanks for lifting my confusion about the new Gamergate 2.
I'm not sure why it's such a big issue for these guys. Just stop buying games from American devs and you won't have that issue. Your favorite ip wasn't ruined because they made the main character is now black its ruined cause it was brought by a large corporation and released as slop packed full of irrelevant half finished "featues".
Good part of the video talks about how games from Japan specifically are affected by these companies / ESG. So it's not just limited to the american videogame industry
