How Video Games... "WENT WOKE"

[@UpperEchelon]

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[@Yayofangamer16]

BLACKROCK AND ESG. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

[@Yayofangamer16]

"You have to force change." - Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock

[@Cyael]

Sweet Baby Inc. Saints Row Reboot. Forced Mary Jane & Deaf Black Girl who spray paints about Racism sections in a super hero game. "Deep ANALysis" appreciated. But making ESG a bad word and Memeing Budlight into the dumpster is how we make progress. NOISE is why people like you are making a video on it now. Thanks.

[@Cyael]

why say allegedly when the CEO has admit it in interviews. Normally you make passive aggressive comments about others not doing research and Larry Finks hilariously blatant behaviours he forces have been dutifully documented.

[@Yayofangamer16]

@@Cyael Because they are fence ridding the fence harder than a 🍆

[@jacobdeville1157]

Never forget neil druckman fired amy hennig, the absolute legend that made our boy nathan drake, she didn't like politics and wanted to keep them out of uncharted 4, that is what got her fired. These people claim they fight for things like "womens voices to be heard." Then, the moment they try to have any artistic integrity, they give them the boot. These people are despicable

[@brianviktor8212]

We are far beyond complaining about their hypocrisy, lies and actions. The question is: What are we going to do about it? "Nothing" hasn't worked out very well.

[@Yayofangamer16]

"You have to force change." - Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock

[@MrXMysteriousX]

I'm old enough to remember she was behind the amazing stories of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and it's sequels. She'll always be remembered as a legend of her craft to me. Screw Neil, that guy can't write, the only thing he does is take other people's credit and self inserts himself into games. I think I remember hearing he invited Anita Sarkasian (the hyper feminist moron) in and that screwed everything up (my memory is pretty bad though)

[@newsciencestuff5540]

can people finally wake up and realize conspiracy theories are just spoiler alerts for the future?

[@AldoApachi-]

Neil Druckman graped his own game - Last of us to the fullest. What regards will he have for anyone elses?

[@johannderjager4146]

The irony of these hypocrites trying to be all high and mighty and morally-superior while working with the most morally bankrupt companies on the planet...

[@flickwtchr]

And right wingers haven't worked with morally bankrupt companies? Haven't right wingers for decades been all about crushing unions, cutting taxes for the elites, offshoring jobs, bringing back child labor, all so the 1% can become even more wealthy? The alt-right backs the fascist Trump and believes his fake populism and right wingers support the GOP that has done nothing BUT drive policies leading to historic inequality. Corporate servicing Democrats have done the same thing, and when movements like Occupy Wall Street fought against that in the Democratic Party AND the Republican party did right wingers join us on the streets to fight the elites? No, they did not. So spare us, okay? There is a moral superiority against the fascist movement of racists, misogynists, and bigots led by Trump in this country. Trump and his circle wouldn't spend 5 minutes with any one of his supporters that wasn't also a super wealthy elite, but Trump supporters are too blind to that fact, and he scams them relentlessly with his constant lies.

[@ForOne814]

@@flickwtchr lol, Trump cultist in 2024. You're 8 years late, mate. Trump was the best president America had in the last 40 years or so.

[@Yipper64]

Yeah. I dont know how people are fooled into thinking that companies actually support any of this stuff. They dont care one way or the other they just want money and ESG seems to be more profitable than actually making decent games.

[@Splarkszter]

​@@Yipper64 We are on a distopia thanks to people illiteracy and selfishness, we need to change common people culture, quality of education above everything.

[@dhanyl2725]

​@@Yipper64A shame that identity politics is the easiest among esg points and gives the most clout

[@thesidneychan]

That's what I've felt for years. Using marginalised groups as check boxes. Tokenism. It feels dishonest, and sometimes you can see it clearly when the writing seems very shoe horned. Hearing they're doing it literally for profit just makes it far worse than virtue signalling. It's a disrespect to the groups they're pretending to care about.

[@Weaver_Games]

This is definitely it. You can just FEEL the insincerity in it all. Go back and watch a "diverse" movie like The Warriors. Somehow the characters feel natural and they all fit in the world. You can tell the cast wasn't diverse just to check a bunch of boxes but because it fit with the story they wanted to tell. Hell even Demolition Man. Wesley Snipes was the bad guy. Now a days a black actor can't even play a morally ambiguous character, let alone play a villain. A woman can never be portrayed as vulnerable or even as having emotions. It makes all media feel like it's completely disconnected from reality and it's just so obvious the entire story is to push an agenda rather than to tell a good story.

[@thesidneychan]

@user-en7ll3og6c there's a nuance to it. It used to be they wanted to cast white actors because they didn't believe minority actors could sell. It's always been political that way. That's why there was white washing back then. In my home country in Malaysia, we also have a very, very strong racial distinction when it comes to marketing for a specific race. But the identity dynamics/politics in the US can be a different kind of bizarre. It just so happens that diversity (and outrage) has also become profitable. So it's a mix of a lot of things. There's those being genuine, and there's exploiters. The end result I assume is almost always about business, less so about social change or engineering.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

I've said it over and over for the past few years and not enough people hear me. Corporations do NOT care about you as a human being. You are a life support system for a wallet. If they claim to care its because thats how their marketing team saw a way to make even more money off you. They lie. They lie constantly. If they "go woke" its not because they care, its because some analyst said thats what other successful companies do to increase profits and be more competitive. In real life it doesn't work so well. Disney is losing money. The company that made the new Saints Row was shut down. And the truly woke crowd can see what you are doing and won't fall for it.

[@АндрейНеугодников-м6е]

​@@thesidneychanprofitable how?

[@thesidneychan]

@@АндрейНеугодников-м6е did you watch this video?

[@rustymustard7798]

The broken games makes them not worth buying, the 'woke' in games makes them not even worth pirating.

[@OkieDokieSmokie]

“Game so bad I wouldn’t play it for free” could be a review for most games these days.

[@SLRModShop]

I think it was Assassin's Creed Valhalla, I was listening to a review on launch and the guy said "it's £40" and my brain went "it's not enough". It took me a whole second to realise what had happened, my brain now literally expects a monetary compensation to play AAA garbage. And apparently, £40/h isn't even enough for my brain. If you were to tell that to my 16 years old self, he'd laugh at you... @@OkieDokieSmokie

[@AlexanderTheGoodEnough]

ouch...but so very fucking true. makes me wonder if feminists attacked gaming out of the very real fear that a good game would be far more interesting than they ever could be.

[@travisgeorge1553]

I nominate this, Top Comment.

[@richardhunter9779]

The problem is that AAA games have been built on storytelling and politically correct stories are inherently bland...

[@Jodah175]

Blackrock and vanguard are essentially the same company at this point.

[@TheBatman39]

A snake with two heads

[@OriginalBongoliath]

Duopolies work together to keep out any competition.

[@LastSecBloomer]

They're all tied to WEF. Where do you think they got that astronomical ammount of money to pass around?

[@La0bouchere]

@@LastSecBloomer Most of it is just people's retirement and investment accounts

[@widyadwi321]

They always the same company, they own eachother

[@Ardante11]

To counter Sweet Baby Inc, I’m going to start a company called Sour Senior Inc. Sour Senior’s purpose will be to work with TV Networks and Streaming services that provide content mainly to the female audience. Its purpose will be to try and curtail the male beauty and masculinity standards that women have towards men. Instead of Ryan Gosling ladies you’ll get Michael Cera in the leading role as the main love interest. Instead of Idris Elba you’ll get Justice Smith. Instead of Channing Tatum you’ll get once again, Michael Cera. Sure they’ll lose money and cancel programs but it’s all about….THE MESSAGE.

[@ITriggerFolks]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 genius‼️💪🏾💪🏾

[@dylan8736]

Bitter sounds better

[@Ardante11]

@@dylan8736 Actually I’m going to call it Crack Baby Inc

[@EatTheMarxists]

Do you need a VP? I’m 45 and as cranky as a man can be - I’m more than happy to spread as much “toxic masculinity” as humanly possible because there’s not a single thing wrong with traditional masculinity.

[@johannderjager4146]

No, it has to be "Bitter Senior LTD".

[@Techcensorshipbot]

The black rock ceo outright said he’s “forcing behavior”. This is why large game developers will continue to fail and go to ruin like most media is doing because of this EXACT issue.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Enforced moralism should be illegal....

[@johannderjager4146]

On the bright side, that means Black Rock is willingly losing money. Let them implode while indies rise and replace them.

[@johannderjager4146]

​@@RemusKingOfRome It is, it's against the 1st-Amendment.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

@@johannderjager4146 Then why are we drowning in it, since the 60s ??

[@Rellikan]

The 1st amendment is only in the US. And the philosophical basis behind it, Free Speech, is only a Western idea these days.

[@Xsqllr]

Larry Fink recently admitted to massive losses due to ESG scores. I think they are going to roll it back, rebrand, and try again. Same dish different flavor.

[@Yayofangamer16]

Aka DEI

[@collapseobserver]

They'll probably drop the environmental stuff (costly but worth the effort) but keep the woke (cheap virtue signalling)

[@nobodyworthknowing8707]

All that matters is the interest rate. The Fed kept rates near zero for over a decade, so it was effectively an infinite well of free money, since the borrowing cost was almost nothing. Now borrowing money is actually expensive and all this ESG pullback is occurring. It's not a coincidence or correlation, it's a direct cause and effect. So while we may want to take a victory lap, this "win" will evaporate as soon as the Fed decides that want to prop up the stock market again.

[@Rellikan]

DEI is about to get phased out.

[@AnonMoose-oj5zq]

None of it matters when the FED itself is pushing DIEversity etc. and they generate the very global currency that goes into supply

[@fettel48]

This is just fucking nuts. If you'd have told someone 15 years ago, that this is where the gaming industry will end up eventually, they'd probably have thought that you're insane. But here we are. This feels like a dystopian nightmare, seriously.

[@benpoke]

For real. Prices are high for everything, AAA gaming sucks, rent high af, wokeness. Feels like a long dream. Thank God for indie games though.

[@tryphenarose384]

@@benpoke Not even indies will be free of this though. Particularly games aimed towards women, unfortunately. I'm a big fan of the sims, and am looking forward to paralives, since the sims 4 is a mess. But even paralives won't have a male/female distinction when you go in to create a character. I'm sure there will be more issues, but am hoping it's so little, that I can just ignore it. Simulations are being killed by this kind of garbage, though. Just dropped Rune Factory 5 yesterday after having the gey constantly shoved down my throat, like I'm stuck in a town full of lesbians and can't befriend any females without them hitting on you or being forced into "romance events" with them. No thanks.

[@anri_szyrykowski]

​@@benpoke hell yeah. Time to Rock and Stone!

[@CallistaWilliard]

These Blackrock and ESG Scores things are just among the many tools that would make the Beast system written in Revelations 13:26-18 come true. Those darned Masons.

[@evilisfun9935]

I used to spend thousands on games and movies. I no longer buy movies and buy maybe 6 games a year on sale. Those games are mostly indie titles.

[@UraniumReaperActual]

Same here, I used to play games all the time and enjoy them tremendously. Same with movies. Now I go to the theater maybe once every few years and buy movies even less often than that. My game library is chock-full of unplayed games so I could never buy a new game again and play for the next decade or more. Industry of entertainment is in the toilet... luckily all the old games and movies are on disk or directly downloaded onto my hard drive.

[@Draclord35]

Same. But the main issue isn't "wokeism". It's that AAA games just suck and just recycle old concepts ad nauseam (or are games as a service).

[@Mayroist]

I bought more games as a young adult/teen than I do as an older person. Still a gamer, just they don't make anything really worth buying. Theres 6 months of pay to beta test and then they are just done with the game. They move on to the next thing that will make them more money, besides the micro transactions in the previous game.

[@citizenoftrone6570]

I think we need a service where gamers can pay developers directly. And I am not talking about the whole studio but rather a couple of artists. Like linking their patreon to the service and do a background check. If there is no woke-shit tweets or retarded statements on an interview then it's good to go. Screw publishers and investors

[@UraniumReaperActual]

@citizenoftrone6570 it would be nice, I mean some indy devs do stuff like that I think. Can't think of any off the top of my head but I'm not sure it always works out though

[@kotarorune]

Anyone called Sweet Baby Inc. should have their hard drives checked.

[@FuckingChrisKupina]

Probably gonna get named on "the List."

[@rodneyabrett]

You likely won't even have to dig that deep to find something horrible. 😂

[@georgek2574]

That’s the thing, they always tell you who they are in their names, logos ect. Research the name of bill mahers production company… kid love productions…

[@KYSMO]

Anyone who hears the words "Sweet Baby" and thinks it refers to infants should their hard drives checked.

[@georgek2574]

@@KYSMO ignorance must be bliss eh?

[@Razer5542]

"Sweet baby inc" Sounds like something that a child predator would use as a username on omegle..

[@rittis013]

Man just look up FBI document on p*do symbols and you'll see

[@mebarkiimad4575]

😂😂😂😂

[@JohanBautista-fm9xy]

Jeez

[@rodrigogirao8344]

Reminds me of that story about a 10 year old who loved the movie Predator, so his Xbox Live tag was "TheChildPredator", and he couldn't understand why no one accepted his friend requests.

[@Just_come_back_to_reality]

They make way more money from Blackrock than they EVER would from the everyday Consumer. That's what this is all about. The message is more important than the fanbase.

[@eotikurac]

why do they need the money?

[@dansmith1661]

)ewish behavior@@eotikurac

[@andronikoswendsofchange1151]

Exactly.

[@the-digital-idiot]

@@eotikurac Greed.

[@Eins3467]

@@eotikurac corporations in a nutshell. hurray capitalism.

[@TheForbidden_1ne]

This sounds like a corporate social credit system. That seems to be the push for the future

[@RokushoTheRavager]

Only if people allow it and people have been proven to be pretty fuking stupid, so it's not looking good.

[@zz3OPEN]

But it's just a conspiracy theory, right?

[@aitoluxd]

​@@zz3OPEN that's what we all thought

[@TheBatman39]

​@@zz3OPENNot anymore, from now on it's spoilers for real life

[@lunatic0verlord10]

And this is why this rat must be stopped.

[@momqabt]

Let's not forget: Blackrock owns part of Vanguard owns part of State Street owns part of Blackrock.

[@WOWimTim]

Whenever I hear modern audiences and diversity when someone describes their game I avoid it like the plague.

[@anteshell]

I agree. BG3 is shit and woke gone broke and those hundreds of thousands people enjoying it are just delusional. Diversity is bad.

[@riptors9777]

As do most customers.. if the only thing you have to talk about for your game are those two... your game is shit

[@dannyteebone9233]

Doesn’t matter if they control the only narrative just like vax’s, Covid, J6, and climate change. A good majority or the more of People will still buy it and believe it as true

[@mattredfield7072]

Like it's bubonic

[@x8jason8x]

@@mattredfield7072 I just said the same thing to my wife last night. lol

[@rustymustard7798]

ESG and DEI in gaming is the BEST DRM they've ever came out with, i mean Denuvo gets cracked in a week but make a game not worth pirating? That's some big brain 4D chess right there!

[@SLRModShop]

🤣 That's a funny way to look at it, I like that!

[@enterprisedavidcain]

We don’t want people to pirate game so we will make it woke so nobody buys it and pirate it! It’s big brain time 🧠

[@rustymustard7798]

@@SLRModShop Honestly i don't even consider new game piracy anymore, i just go back to the ENDLESS depths of retro content that is still as fun as day one to play. I don't even buy modern hardware because everything i WANT to play can run on a decade old potato. I sometimes go as far back as emulating Coleco when i want a simple 'mobile' quality time waster game without all the "BUY THIS" bullshit of mobile gaming. Just run 'Looping' on an emulator and you have something simple, fun but challenging to play on the bus, toilet, or bus toilet that doesn't require loot boxes, daily logins, and 3 different in game currencies lol. Or just go play OG Battletoads, that'll be a good game forever.

[@zanyraccoon6361]

@@rustymustard7798 I wouldn't go that far personally. There's still plenty of amazing games coming out (especially in the Indie scene). But I understand why people like you have made such a decision. Most AAA studios don't even make games anymore anyways. They instead make Live Services which are just non-mobile mobile games.

[@yebzy]

Quite unique way to look at it lmao

[@JezdziecBezNicka]

Time to bump this vid back into people’s recommended feed. Bump.

[@TheBatman39]

Count me in

[@abysskun9518]

Despite what one thinks about woke and progressive ideals in games, I think everyone would have to agree that an unknow company like SweetBaby inc that has as it's primary clients some of the biggest players in the industry (and no one knew about them before last year) with the sole purpose of adding certain moral ideals into games is incredibly fishy and sounds like it's a conspiracy theory, and yet it is 100% true

[@QuiteSpiffing]

Also, scary idea, our politics might've been influenced by corporate greed. I'm a rather left leaning person with anti-corporate ideals, so naturally I am inclined to consume the kind of media that empathizes with that, reinforcing those ideologies, effectively making me a slave to the system.

[@0potion]

​@@QuiteSpiffingSee that's what I really don't understand as someone who used to be considered a centrist but is now apparently a right-winger according to the fucking internet the people that have been most pro corporation in my personal life have all been left-leaning progressives which does not make fucking sense to me.

[@manformerlypigbukkit]

@@QuiteSpiffingyup, be as anti-establishment as you want, they’ll still find a way to market towards and milk you I fucking love corporations and companies

[@memberofchat2825]

im going into schitzo territory here but, that logo, with the swirl, now who else uses that? hmmmm

[@yutro213]

Yeah, the company grew WAY too fast in just 5 years or so.

[@extyr]

It's all lip service and woke-washing, but it actually affects the quality of the end product, hence why people are pissed. We live in a society where looking good is more important than being good and that's the true cancer.

[@deathstrike]

Well said. Lip gloss and makeup only cover imperfections, they don't make them go away. The rot is deep in many game publishers, but the wrapper is as shiny as ever.

[@pandaaddict2756]

Lipstick on a pig is still a pig 😂

[@peepopoo4387]

It's not even good-looking stuff though. Some of the characters they create are abominations.

[@Human_01]

Word!

[@odinwarlock2436]

Can I have an example of this happening?

[@manynukes11]

I do think it's funny that Sweet Baby said their contributions are meant to be additive not corrective but then they race swap Finnish and Nordic characters

[@FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL]

“Sweet baby” YUCK

[@TwistedTammer]

Ain't even trying to hide it, those sickos

[@FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL]

@@TwistedTammer amen

[@InkfinityOkamix3]

“Sweet Baby is merely profiting off a general demand for [wokeness].” Yeah no. There is no “general demand” for progressive ideology in gaming right now. The general population is not demanding this. Only fringe groups online and investors with larger goals in mind.

[@attilamarics3374]

Its the same thing Anita Sarkesian was doing. So there is a demand for morons in the buisness, but the customers dont realy like it.

[@keewardgamingvods]

Being fair, he's talking about the demands of the woke investment companies, not the players.

[@Code7Unltd]

I'm going to guess it's about going for the pension funds. Retirees really are only concerned with collecting dividends. Blackrock's risk-manager program 'Aladdin' has an extra variable that prioritizes stocks with higher ESG scores.

[@Yipper64]

And the giant stock companies that have more money than sense.

[@Slavolko]

Go to universities and other hotspots of these weirdos and you suddenly find their target demographic.

[@raulzaha3096]

I fell like people don't fully appreciate how scary this is. Select entities being able to push an agenda on an entire industry without anyone knowing, is just... chilling.

[@1chibanKasuga]

cod mw already did it to normalize usa war in middle east (u.s. military finance them like they did with war movies like og Top gun), i tough that was the pinnacle of propaganda boy i was wrong, now we even attack ourselves i guess is karma to not have stopped them

[@Perjoss]

Do you know what’s even more scary? (for the companies, not for us) is how quickly a fan base can spread the word on what’s happening behind the scenes and start a trend to boycott a franchise when it starts going in a direction they’re not happy with.

[@crazy10bears]

"push an agenda on an entire industry" It's all industries. Blackrock/Vanguard are doing this with practically everything. Look into it.

[@DarksideGmss0513]

Do we even know if that's the case or not? We really have no actual way of knowing that. All we can do is speculate

[@darkspy666]

It’s great they’re showing their client list, now I know which games to avoid like the plague.

[@GigglingStoners]

Let's hope some arent smart enough to hire them and say they dont want to be on the list.

[@TheHipisterDeer]

Contrary to the belief I think Alan Wake 2 is a pretty good game, out of all the "woke" games out there this was probably the least woke one... Plus how do you even make the forces of darkness woke in the first place? Is the darkness canonically gay or something?

[@ItsReallyJCole]

@@TheHipisterDeerlook up what Saga Andersen looks like in quantum break

[@TheHipisterDeer]

@@ItsReallyJCole quantum break isn't part of the Alan Wake Universe because Microsoft owns it.

[@brunomalta4698]

This was actualy a excelent change. The new actress is amazing. The one from Quantum is flat as paper@@ItsReallyJCole

[@BackwaterEnclave]

Anita still consults, but people think she's down and out because FF kicked the bucket. The most important thing to note: You cannot "hunt" for ESG, while also being primarily concerned with PROFIT like a company ought to be. Remember that the next time someone tells you "oh they don't really believe any of this stuff, they just want money". Yeah. While doing the most divisive, and wasteful business strategies ever conceived. Like a College kid with a Credit Card maxed out. lol

[@eliaspanayi3465]

ESG is designed for companies who want to sell their political beliefs in spite of the profit. If they diddnt believe in it then they woulddnt need ESG to be profitable.

[@powerbeard5653]

i dont think pushing morality you dont even believe in for the sake of profits is a good thing either lol so thats a pretty pathetic defense even if it was true

[@lunatic0verlord10]

@@eliaspanayi3465 Well, it's not. Not on the long term. Look at Disney.

[@LordBaktor]

ESG is designed to bypass normal ways of getting profit. You don't need to sell a single copy of your woke game because daddy Blackrock will keep your company afloat as long as you tick the DEI boxes.

[@Grievance_Studies_Affair_2018]

Why are they all "concerned" with exactly the same thing?

[@Mortiel]

There's an additional facet to this story: Due to years of US interest rates being nearly zero, many companies were operating purely on investment capital, not from revenue (called a "zombie company"). The ESG scam seems to have grown alongside that trend, possibly as a means of hiding the insolvency of these zombie companies. This screams textbook "financial bubble", if I ever saw it. It's also interesting this seemed to start right after the recession in 2008, as though corrupt investment firms needed a new industry to screw over after they tanked the housing market, like locusts moving from one field to the next.

[@huks9380]

The fact that this company is called “Sweet Baby”... The jokes write themselves.

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

It sounds like a psyop created by Matt "Sweet Baby Gang" Walsh, tbh. He's the only person I've seen try to make "Sweet Baby ____" a thing in any capacity

[@VarjoPira]

Probably ran by Epstein clients.

[@aiodensghost8645]

As if we have to be coddled...

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Probably because pandering Incorporated is too on the nose and just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[@roflBeck]

It's a horrible ironic name. They called one of the most disgusting companies out there, Sweet Baby Inc.

[@Retroloft556]

My retro library looks better by the day.

[@BigSplenda1885]

It's like the books you saved before the book burning began and the propaganda machine took over

[@roflBeck]

I've already mostly switched to 6th and 7th Gen games, occasionally coming back for an indie hit or something.

[@Black-Rat]

Mine too, it's like we end up with a good numbers of uncensored games and no political correctness included,

[@G360LIVE]

That's why I started buying physical copies of 4K and Blu-ray movies. Movies that are streamed can be censored or simply kicked off the streaming services and made unavailable for viewing.

[@dj.elitez7591]

Word lol

[@mon573r6]

You should put a list of which companies work with BlackRock, Vanguard, Sweet baby ect in the description so that we have a Blacklist of which games/companies not to buy from...

[@Accuracy158]

Basically any company big enough that you can name them. You're 401k, your grocery store, and whatever company you work for. 😆

[@zeening]

watch the fucking video jesus, literally go to the website... do the LITERAL BARE MINIMUM EFFORT AND USE LIKE 1% OF YOUR BRAIN????

[@AMSCh2010]

Just play indies

[@kilroywashere9343]

@@Accuracy158yep, it’s in literally everything

[@rustymustard7798]

If people actually wanted 'woke' games we'd all be playing Saints Row GOTY edition by now.

[@samuel5591]

The game so good they had to give it away for free lol

[@elisehalflight]

Well that depends on what you define as woke really.... If you mean games that include marginalized groups in them I'm pretty sure Baldurs Gate won GOTY last year

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

​@@elisehalflight Also Metroid's had a solid and growing fanbase for over 20 years, and Fallout New Vegas was GOTY a decade ago.

[@iskabin]

@@elisehalflightBG3 checks every single box of the woke agenda, that's undeniable. But it's also a great game IMO

[@trainerkam3218]

​@@iskabinYeah I feel like the issue isn't moreso that the games are "woke" as is ppl trying to use diversity points to make money instead of making an enjoyable gaming experience

[@akanonymoss]

This is not companies following a trend, it's corporations forcing a cultural change. The real question is to what end?

[@ronarnold1507]

It's just what they think makes money right now. When they feel like the well is drying up, they'll move on from it.

[@Rellikan]

Seize the means of cultural production.

[@F_Around_and_find_out]

The end is the Gluttonous Consumer. The money keep flowing away from the wallet, and the information they thought they were paying for contribute to nothing in real life. Wall-E predicted this, might as well watch it again.

[@FuckingChrisKupina]

Perversion and subversion. They want to destroy all religions but their own (The most perverse and corrupt cult on Earth). They want to rewrite history. They want to force you all to adopt cybornetics in your bodies. They want to put AI (The Beast) in control. They want to take all the farmland so they can starve you. This cult is actively trying their best to end the world... That is the endgame. They want Armageddon. They want to fight "the DemIUrGe". Basically, they want you to join their religious war on God. That is what all of this is about.

[@DandyRaytona]

Profit

[@johnathanross6519]

Social engineering folks. It's everything. Politics, Legacy media, and entertainment. This was decades in the making. Now that it's deeply rooted, they don't care who knows it.

[@Iggi-mv2ux]

"Corporate Governance" is a terrifying phrase.

[@ResidentRecon89]

It is. The Corporations and Government have gotten WAY to cozy with each other. Same with Government and Social Media Companies have gotten a cozy relationship with each other to squash political dissent with censorship. And the SCOTUSs needs to put an end to it. Cause Government using Corporations as a middle man to push censorship on anyone Governments don’t like is still a complete violation of the 1st Amendment.

[@Rellikan]

The other is "public-private partnerships" this is what authoritarians love to have.

[@sakaaali]

Isn't it funny how the people calling everyone "fascist", are in fact fascists themselves? On that note all the other accusations they like to make are projection as well.

[@burningblueskyband]

"I'm from corporate governance and I'm here to help"

[@slicedtopieces]

@@Rellikan 'public-private partnerships' is literally just fascism (with that lovely progressive flavour we've come to expect). You'll never hear about 'institution-citizen partnership' or something like that. That sounds too much like power sharing with regular people instead institutions casually lording over the rest of us.

[@ephraimwinslow]

We were dumb enough to believe the ideologues when they told us gatekeeping was bad. The end.

[@x8jason8x]

No... the ideologues are useful idiots who believe politicians will "really do it this time!". 'Gatekeeping' is just them bellyaching about meritocracy, facts, reality, you know... all the things they're at odds with. If you ever believed gamergate had merit, you are not terribly bright, I will grant you that.

[@robinnewhouse1563]

Gatekeeping is for sad pathetic losers that fear that they get driven out of their so called created safe spaces.

[@theFORZA66]

Gatekeeping wouldnt have saved anything though; this isnt as much a problem of IPs going mainstream but moreso a problem that the creative powers at be are all butt buddies with the same group of idiots as the rest who believe they for whatever reason have the right to enforce their own manufactured cultural norms

[@thethrashyone]

Further back, we were also dumb enough to believe the slippery slope argument was a logical fallacy. It's neither a formal nor informal fallacy, just an argument toward projected outcomes based on pattern recognition. Not unlike the "finish the pattern" problems you encounter in math classes (e.g "1, 6, 11, 16...").

[@rattlehead999]

yup. Protect what you love.

[@quantumbyte-studios]

But go one step further.. why would Blackrock& Vanguard champion ESG when they primarily care about 'number go up' .. is it because ESG is socially popular and so AuM goes up?

[@TheZeroDozer]

You finally did it, you madman. You covered Sweet Baby and the damage it's doing to the gaming industry.

[@leonidas14775]

I have a small violin to play for the destruction of the games industry

[@whitedragondojo]

ESG sounds like that Fair Trade Coffee and Fair Trade Chocolate scam; is Sweet Baby made out of chocolate and coffee ?

[@Billy-bc8pk]

He's only years late and still only scratching the surface, but sure....

[@TheBatman39]

You didn't even watch the full video. Sweet Baby is not the core of the problem here, unlike so many people think nowadays. They are simply benefiting from the demand in the market to hire leftist consultants in video game development. Sweet Baby Inc is part of the problem, but the one that is truly destroying the industry is this whole ESG system enforced by Vanguard and Blackrock.

[@el_jamos]

Lets not forget that the logo uses a known pedophile symbol as released by the FBI on a baby.

[@TBoneTony]

Always remember, these corporations and investment companies will always cry harassment when the focus is on their own actions and how they have ruined franchises. Yet they have no problems smearing their own consumers when gamers don't buy their latest games.

[@PulaskiSkater71]

Sweetbabyinc is the company that keeps adding social crap into games.

[@ignorantman6366]

Don't forget they aren't the only company that's doing this.

[@Yayofangamer16]

BLACKROCK AND ESG. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

[@Unapologeticweeb]

it saying sqaure enix makes me incredibly worried about dawntrail i swear if sweetbabyinc ruins ffxiv im going to flip

[@Lenn869]

well theres another group of people doing it too but we cant talk about them on here

[@MrAngryMonkey100]

@@Unapologeticweeb you also add the woke part of FFxiv that chases people out that dont bend the knee to them are part of the problem as well...they need to go as well..

[@lillithdavidson3647]

How can you call yourself marginalized when backed by mega corps - which as a side line , also call themselves 'inclusive' while silencing dissenters from those very communities they claim to protect .... Sadly the phenomena you describe is not just in gaming and entertainment but across the board in community services , govt and beyond - we gotta find a way to get rid of this sort of social engineering plague

[@GigglingStoners]

Calling yourself marginalized is just a power play, a move to get what you want and dont deserve.

[@dogmadogma5398]

Finally someone who recognises this is happening to EVERY SINGLE INDUSRTY AND GOVERNMENT ! Thank you

[@badaoe3stratsonly130]

​@@GigglingStoners The hell are you smoking my guy.

[@GigglingStoners]

@@badaoe3stratsonly130 Something you could use, it seems.

[@badaoe3stratsonly130]

@@GigglingStoners I'm not the snowflake losing his mind over a line of throw away dialogue in a video game. Your generation is fucking pathetic. You need some real adversity to connect to reality. Ever since the soviet union fell this country has gone down hill. Because you all forgot what a real threat looked like. I'll tell you what makes me sick. Its seeing how the youth of today throw fits over nothing. We fought for your freedom. And this is what you do with it? Some days i wonder if it would've been better if those commie bastards had won. We lived under the constant threat of nuclear annihilation. You get sick from a throwaway line in a video game.

[@RigalicReign]

The company is Canadian, that's already a red flag in my book.

[@AidGum]

As opposed to an American company, which is a-ok.

[@BlueDraEv]

@@AidGum reminder he is correct yes

[@Web720]

Makes sense. If you think American progressives are bad, wait until you see Canadian progressives, they are far more radical.

[@tomgibbs4552]

I think the point here was pointing to the practises of the canadian government recently 🤔🤔🤔

[@Turtle3000]

As a black and Asian man. I assure you, that no one like me asked for companies like this. They ruin the same games I love as well.

[@Elon-n9q]

Well a lot of black people are gobbling it up. They love being elevated above white people and being given hand-ups and hand-outs. I'm glad you're a real man who wants to make his way by your own merits and hard work.

[@divinecomedian2]

You have to also be transgender

[@KaeYoss]

Of course you don't. No one does, especially no actual gamers. They don't actually give a flying fork about black people, or brown, red, green, purple, silver, blue, whatever. Neither do people from any letter from the alphabet soup matter to them at all. People are just cannon fodder for them, ammo in their battle against Western values and norms. They never asked the general population of any group they claim to represent if they want any of this.

[@Darth_Bateman]

As a black and black man, I stand with my black and Asian brother. Who had better not be named Matthew or I swear to god~ because there can only be ONE Matthew, and it’s gonna be me.

[@winchesterkid]

Apex legends has been ruined by this. It’s so blatantly obvious the quality of the product is bad, poor art because they are all made by furries and poor server maintenance because they fired competent engineers to make way for women. It’s sad

[@roboiago]

Just glad more people are getting aware of how this ball rolls. Same thing happening with the movie industry, gotta get dem high ESG scores,

[@gab4198]

i think it will end as a bubble for the entertrainment industry and lots of companies will end bankrupt some day, they are prioritizing investments and ESG scores over their actual consumers. Gamers are just dumb and they don't know the power their wallets hold over the games they play and they live in a buy, complain and then buy the sequel cycle, but some day those companies will lose investments because they have no consumers anymore and that means no revenue, no growth potential and no investments...

[@beeman4266]

​@@gab4198 In a way it reminds me of the 2008 financial crisis. You had banks wanting more mortgages from smaller banks so they could make more mortgage backed securities to sell because they were making bank on it. They didn't care if the mortgages were subprime or B rated when they were tossing them all into AAA rated securities, aka guarantees to not default. Then you had the adjustable rate loans that had reasonable monthly payments for a few years, then they went up exponentially once the adjustable rate kicked in. But these ESG scores in gaming and the entertainment industry reminds me of 2008 because the sellers (banks, video game companies, production companies etc) have forgotten that the customer is the core part of their business. We have game studios chasing investments, ESG scores, and numbers on spreadsheets instead of looking at actual player/customer engagement. Then when these game studios have a game that performs bad they can't fathom why. It HAS to be the customer that's wrong. I mean, they're ESG compliant, and have 1.69 gay characters for every straight character, what more could a customer possibly want??

[@Pseunomix]

Looks like The Sweet Baby Inc ship is finally sinking.

[@Jurgir09]

I doubt it. Have U seen how much connections with BlackRock they have?! They will outlive your grand grand children (assuming U will have any)

[@Elgera92]

"We are going to re-write your game story and narrative and you will not change it"

[@TheForbidden_1ne]

If you ever want to figure out where a problem lies, follow the money

[@CC3GROUNDZERO]

That's what Karl Marx did. The problem is money itself. Wherever there's money, there's corruption.

[@ravneo]

@@CC3GROUNDZERO Karl Marx was lazy as fuck and expected people to support his ass

[@SacredCASHcow]

@@CC3GROUNDZERO money is just power in tangible format. power exists because humanity exists. it's not evil it just is

[@CC3GROUNDZERO]

@@SacredCASHcow Ah, the tired old "hooman natur" "argument". Money corrupts. Capitalism corrupts. Deal with it.

[@SacredCASHcow]

@@CC3GROUNDZERO are you suggesting the age of an argument ivalidates it? That would be a logical fallacy and I don't debate emotional thinkers

[@t3tsuyaguy1]

You know what's really funny, and kind of proves your research? I just watched a discussion between Jordan Peterson and Terrence Keeley, a Black Rock executive. He spoke at length about how these ESG standards came to be, how Black Rock encouraged them, *and why he thinks they need to be abandoned altogether!* He essentially described what all of us have been saying about this style of checkbox social activism. Maybe we're going to see a shift in the near future. Maybe we'll get good story telling back.

[@Wormweed]

"Diversive, representation and inclusive" is what's ruining all our escapism today. Maybe i just want to sit down and play a game for a while without seeing the same crap i see in the news and on social media every day.

[@boobah5643]

Well, as the people running _The Sims 4_ said, you're not allowed to use their game to escape. Presumably, if you can't escape you'll give in to make the hurting stop. Which is another reason to despise these people.

[@blazingfuryoffire1]

@@boobah5643 Yet they forget a cornered animal is at its most dangerous. Get rid of the bread and circuses and you'll have a violent population.

[@RokushoTheRavager]

​@@boobah5643 Or you'll go the opposite route and secretly want to inflict as much pain and suffering on these people as possible. Not a good stance to take if we end up in WWIII or another very likely Civil War.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

"F**king PRO NOUNS!"

[@noodlegunoblongata]

Division, Inequality and Exclusion

[@hightierplayers2454]

The problem in media forms in general is constant throughout. There may be slight alterations based on the monetization models, but generally it always is something along the lines of "lore not adhered to", "entire plot points and characters redesigned for DEI and ESG scores", "gameplay almost nonexistent because political message is more important", and "start with beloved series because we know our ideas are terrible and will never have a chance unless we destroy the franchises that will be used popularly against us". I'm telling you as a former Hollywood Network Executive, games, music, videos of all formats, the problems with "woke" and "dei" are the same generally throughout these mediums because the people at the top all know each other, F each other, are intermarried probably somehow by way of 2nd cousins or farther, and plan generations ahead. What culture at large has to do is stop reacting years after its too late and massive amounts of franchises are destroyed. People were calling out "woke nonsense" back in 2013-2014 and were getting reamed with claims like "not enough evidence". By the time we got enough evidence to convince the masses, we were here in the 2020s already. Those of us with the inside knowledge and access are never believed in time. Even now, I'm trying to warn people of what is happening now because they won't believe me on things happening now until the 2030s at earliest.

[@wrongthinker843]

Demoralization 101: 1) Deny it happens and attack those who bring attention to it 2) Admit it happens but not as described by the ones you silenced 3) Admit it happens and claim it's actually a good thing 4) Attack anyone who dares question it being a good thing

[@theFORZA66]

Ive been complaining about this shit since back then but back then if you rightfully pointed out the idiocy you were a "misogynist" or something else bigoted even if your specific complaint had nothing to do with a woman or minority etc. Theyve been battling this by silencing criticism with slander yet somehow only now people are catching on?

[@Wanderer3639]

any future prophecy on how everything is going bad? and how bad is going to be in 2030? I was reading a comic from 2014 and I stopped after the second chapter because it went so woke that ended up back in sexist... patriarchy, "man can't do anything" and they were the heroes ffs. yes in the grand scheme of the chapters they were small things but the way the presented their thought process made the tone of the beginning of the story. the fact that the late half of the second chapter is about a guy firing into a procession of woman doesn't help. I would have accepted that in later chapters but how the story was going it didn't help to change the tone that I feel from it.

[@robertmcdougall1144]

Ah 2014-2015... I remember when sjw called it a slipperly slope "fallacy" lmao

[@aethelfrithofbernica]

I had friends back during the Disney takeover of star wars. I told them it was going to ruin the franchise. That the erasure of the EU showed a massive disregard for a pre-existing setting with established characters and lore, and that Disney would never be able to offer anything of comparable value. They said I was overreacting. Eventually they called me misogynistic, homophobic, racist, and bigoted. Obviously I fell out of contact with them. But I'd looooove to see them now and ask what they think about Disney Star Wars now

[@unpopularopinion-1]

I appreciate the information in this video but there’s still a big elephant in the room. If the root cause of these companies being woke is trying to secure investment funds, the question becomes What is the motivation for major investment firms like Blackrock and Vanguard to require companies to be woke.

[@miguelantero6043]

"Enforce change"

[@reapersasmr5483]

Sheep are easier to control

[@Web720]

Because it's much more easier to change society in their eyes through the "private" sector, than the public because of the insane amount of beaucracy when trying to change and do legislation. While doing it through publicly-traded companies is a lot easier.

[@3putt21]

To keep sowing dissent among the working class. Culture War instead of Class War.

[@igortube]

They have infinite money, so it's about influencing kids and culture is downstream from the media people are exposed to. Every facet must have "the message".

[@jaredsmith4919]

Keeping it professional and straightforward. And no surprise it's all about the money and connections.

[@wrongthinker843]

It's about money for the game companies. But why would those finance firms invest so much without returns?

[@Yayofangamer16]

@@wrongthinker843 Demoralization world agenda.

[@elgerifico]

It's not about the money. A system's purpose is what it does. BlackRock and Vanguard lose money via ESG, the companies that follow ESG guidelines lose money. The purpose of the system is to destroy culture and demoralize the population.

[@elgerifico]

​@@wrongthinker843The answer to that question lies in the ethnicity of the people in charge of BlackRock.

[@Vic_Trip]

​​​@@elgerificonot even that. The owners are white millionaires. It's about the influence on young children. Make the media all targeted on one subject and you can brainwash the younger generation, (even naive adults) who have no idea of different, quality types of media, and you can make a cultural revolution hard to revert for decades. The aim will always be to psychologically trap people into accepting something that will shape a person's priorities and values The Rockefeller Family has done that before by influencing Americans to hate black people. All of their generations have dedicated themselves to "change the course of humanity" through psy-op tactics. Except now they have the aid of politicians by corrupting them with money that not only makes them do what millionaires want, but also as black-mail in case they come out to society with their mistakes. They are essentially a mafia except internationally. And, much like the Chinese mafia and the previous case of JFK, if their servants step out of line, their lives are in danger. The servants all end up being scapegoats in the end. That is how they keep themselves afloat and without scratches.

[@riotangel4701]

Who could have thought hiring a bunch of consultants to improve your business could actually put you on a path towards going out of business.

[@hassathunter2464]

Disney: Shocking face

[@HeroSword_P]

The fact that "consultants" are a career that earn hundreds of thousands of dollars to essentially convince your company they know how it could be run better has to be one of the biggest scams of the 21st century.

[@tsuobachi]

The solution to all of this has been the same for years: play indie games, if it's political propaganda, refund it and write a negative review mentioning it to keep others from accidentally supporting it, and never pre-order anything.

[@jonofthehill]

I agree except for one thing: don't even write the review. Even negative attention pushes the algorithm. Use good old fashioned word of mouth. If you dislike something, never mention or complain about it in this evil hellscape! It will only become stronger!

[@tsuobachi]

@@jonofthehill Yeah, that's a good point. There only has to be one negative review for each one to highlight the issue. The rest of us can just ignore it completely. Don't feed the algorithm.

[@GELTONZ]

Spot on. We tried to warn people about this back in 2016 but were laughed at. Sweet Baby isn't even the only one doing this. Before them, there was Silverstring Media and Square Enix's Ethics Department doing the same thing. Honestly I feel like all the controversies of around 2016 were just an attempt to popularize the idea of hiring companies like Sweet Baby so people with useless degrees could get jobs of being professional Karens. I am SPECIFICALLY reminded of a little article called "Tabletop Gaming has a White Male Terrorist Problem" that was circulated a few years back. Apparently the article combined multiple Facebook and LiveJournal tabletop gaming horror stories from multiple women and claimed they all happened to a single woman who then sent this article to a company and their response was "That's terrible! I'm sorry you had a bad time but...what do you want US to do about it?" and her response was "Hire me and make me the Women's Ambassador to Gaming, if you don't I'll spread this around" and the rest is history. I feel like she likely wasn't the only one using these tactics. What I want to know is where the heck ESG investment CAME from! Supposedly it has been around for like hundreds of years and yet only recently has it become such an absolute mess. What happened THERE?!

[@HELLO7657]

"What I want to know is where the heck ESG investment CAME from!" I bet Hitler knows the ethnicity of those behind it.

[@Pavewy]

New Discourses channel on KZbin. James Lindsay. pay particular attention from a video he did two weeks ago explaining how the woke infiltrate a business. What you describe here is exactly what he explains.

[@badrhetoric5637]

And you should be laughed at still

[@keungwan5901]

I think it got co-opted by Woke. Originally ESG (1970s?), from what I remember, was a legit environmental concern. And yeah, it did point out Government problems, but that got turned on it's head, to supporting Government control somehow

[@FuckingChrisKupina]

Too bad comments are censored...

[@arc8216]

I knew there was something fake and manufactured in all this diversity stuff. I like that you delve into it in a nonsensationalized and level headed way showing how shady the practices are.

[@SLRModShop]

What kills me is that I've been explaining it for years. Now everyone realises what was happening. Look at the dates of these articles... Late 2022... Want to know what happened a few weeks later? December 2022: Vanguard drops out of Net Zero policies February 2023: BlackRock quietly renames ESG In other words, ESG and Net Zero (fake ecology BS) are already a thing of the past and the wokeness we see today is just inertia because they spent almost a decade hiring people who, if ESG were to go, would be fired instantly. Look back at the news cycle of 2023... "this big company fires all their DEI execs", "this other big company lays off 3000 employees" etc etc. That's what's pissing me off, ESG went truly mainstream after its death. I'm not saying that I was the only one aware then, far from it, but there wasn't a push from the non-woke side to teach people about it... Until the past 6 months... Now, the non-woke side are teaching each others old news... This video is literally 4 years late. Now it's just a matter of "how fast the non-wokes will catch on to the fact that ESG died last year?"... When it happened, I went to talk to my wife, I said "look at this headline" (showing BlackRock renaming ESG), then "you'll see, it'll take time but wokeness just officially died". Then throughout the rest of the year, I was able to point at headlines and said "see? I saw that coming". Plenty of news made so much more sense just because I knew about that. 2023 was also the year when I had to sit through non-woke people thinking that everything they saw was a result of other companies fearing what happened to Bud Light... Can you imagine how frustrating it was?! ESG dies, no one notices, companies fire DEI hires left and right and everyone is "it's probably thanks to the Bud light boycott"... I swear... so frustrating. I'm not bragging by the way, ESG dying will be the death of wokeness, I don't have to be Einstein to understand that. It's just to point out how frustrating it is to see people go "ooooh, that's why this happened!" when the entire world is about to shift. Let me be clear, I'm not blaming the people who just learn about it, I'm blaming the non-woke side to pay so little attention, ESPECIALLY because they are aware of ESG for years but decided to really go all in on it in 2023, for some strange reason.

[@Practitioner_of_Diogenes]

It's not actually that hard to see all the diversity stuff is all a sham. It's still not good, but it's all fake.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

It's kind of sad, hilarious/pathetic how easily people confuse allyship with pandering. For example when all these corporations on Twitter/X change their logo to be a rainbow logo during June that's pandering at it's absolute finest. Surface level nothing more. There are definitely other agendas happening within these companies and within other parts of the industry that are separate from this but it always comes back down to money.

[@stevenyee1055]

Not hard to spot badly written diversity and just to name a few.. Mary sue syndrome, millennial jargon, stereotyped hairstyle, tokenism, environmentalism, capitalist vs socialist, weak male personality, overbearing need to virtue signal.

[@SapiaNt0mata]

it may be manufactured for the ESG, but corporations do go woke for the ESG money. type on youtube search "CD Projekt Red ESG". you read this correctly. CDPR joined ESG. since they joined ESG they have to be woke, and if you watch their ESG video on their youtube channel you'll realize "they went woke". corporations go woke for the ESG money, even if the wokeness is manufactured.

[@nastysoda9212]

it's not "allegedly". The CEO of blackrock has said many times on camera the items listed that factor into the ESG score. And he said that the time ahs come for him to FORCE this garbage into our media

[@eFeXuy]

For me the first sign was Dragon Age 2 in 2011, they made a lot of fuss about having a male gay character in the roster prior to the release, and was the first time that I saw people that dare criticize the game being called homophobe, even when the criticism was unrelated to said character.

[@45hotro]

The gay character is always the fool we all laugh at.

[@Skumtomten1]

Yea, never even bought that game. This is extra disappointing considering Dragon Age Origins is my favorite game of all time.

[@Ostnizdasht206]

As a minority, I don't want be pandered to. Just make a good product. I find it more offensive if some company or studio makes a shit product because they were trying to pander to me.

[@FalloutMemphis]

And you will remain a minority if your seen or heard

[@nojuanatall3281]

I actually feel sorry for the communities being exploited. Especially the African American community. They are the main target of so much social engineering, political false promises and scam charities.

[@elisehalflight]

I am a minority who likes being pandered to, but man... Those AAA devs suck at it. Indie and JRPGs is where the good shit is at.

[@lotrbfme2rotwkrj]

They are not trying to pander to minorities really, they are pandering for ESG/DEI points

[@Eichro]

i can't speak as a minority but it must really suck to see your social group to be represented as a fake-ass token in all media.

[@gunsmithcat7542]

Can we also talk about why they are willing to pay companies for going woke, even though no value whatsoever is created? - Or would that be anti-semitic?

[@vizuz]

Read Woke Inc by Vivek Ramaswamy. It thoroughly explains how it's happened. It's got nothing to do with judaism

[@spaceman2517]

Its not about the money its about Social engineering -Larry Fink Ceo of Blackrock

[@TheUplate]

This guy knows. Fink is lying though, it's also about the money

[@MustraOrdo]

It's mostly about acquiring control and power. The money is just a means to that end. @@TheUplate

[@Armameteus]

@@MustraOrdo Money is the resource that buys power and control. They want all the money, so they can leverage it to buy control.

[@FuckingChrisKupina]

Money manipulates. Domination is the agenda.

[@TheUplate]

@@MustraOrdo agreed, the end goal is power

[@ViperChief117]

Easy companies started supporting political ideologies they don’t believe in. Rather than the consumer base who actually buys their products.

[@eccentricthinker142]

Debt got too cheap, and zombie companies thought they could coast by with a debt load and not pay it. Interest rates increased, customers were whittled away, and now those companies are left hanging

[@machinegunhunt8407]

Bungie with the Latinx tweet is a good example of this. Almost all of the community slammed on them.

[@pootispiker2866]

​@@machinegunhunt8407Even Latino people don't like it. It's really just 14 yo white girl shit.

[@zalabit927]

A lot of higher ups seriously believe this crap, they think signaling on social and political views makes for a better product.

[@Yayofangamer16]

​@@machinegunhunt8407BLACKROCK AND ESG. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

[@FallouFitness_NattyEdition]

This just makes me cherish gaming in my childhood even more (90s through early 2000s).Back then, games came out finished, a lot of them had originality, no micro-transactions, no pay to play, and no plolitical agendas. I could play games to eacape the world for a few hours a day.

[@smokedout7129]

This whole notion of main characters having to look like you for you to enjoy the entertainment they're featured in is itself racist and narcissistic. Not once did I ever pick up a game and drop it or keep it from being one of my favorites because the main character isn't black.

[@sakaaali]

Exactly, couldn't have said it any better

[@kubabooba548]

I agree.

[@rikiroket9931]

You know the wokies will call you a far right extremist now...

[@emberfist8347]

I feel it should be possible in say a RPG where you have a character creator. That is why I would say a game like Fallout is a better RPG than Mass Effect as you have more options for how your character looks.

[@RokushoTheRavager]

I'm white as a sheet and most of my favorite characters either wear an outfit or a piece of armor the entire time not showing any skin, they're not white, or they aren't even human. I never ever really paid attention to how many straight white male characters I played as in video games, I just thought they were really cool and badass and I agreed with their ideals. Their skin color was never once relevant at all.

[@riptors9777]

That one paragraph at 3:40 really ticks all the checkboxes doesnt it? All the buzzwords... "diverse" "inclusive" "representation" "marginalized players" (who the fuck is marginalized in gaming btw?) "Sensitivity reading" "inclusivity".... God that paragraph stinks of pretentiousness... its as if there was a board meeting of old dudes trying to cram every social media buzzword into one paragraph without understanding or caring about the meaning...

[@rps215]

And one company shown in the video that is not even a gaming company? That company has a very high ESG score, despite being a tobacco company (Marlboro anyone?).

[@AdrianGrave]

only people who seem to be marginalized in gaming are the confused customers of these games and then they get gaslit when they bring it up on steam forums or on social media..

[@szechuon6971]

@@rps215 A smoking company with a high ESG score... That's ironic AF.

[@stevejones69420]

​@@rps215lol,lmao even

[@demonplay21]

you were ahead of the curve on this. 6 weeks later this thing with sweet baby has snowballed into an avalanche. nicely done!

[@brightongoodwin1267]

It's insane how much money just Blackrock and Vanguard invest into these companies. Looking only at EAs holdings Black Rock invested $3.7E9 into them. As a company I too would do the song and dance for that kind of money

[@dansmith1661]

When people blame the rich for stuff, it is always that one group who lends the money behind it.

[@nobbyfirefly57]

@@dansmith1661either way, it’s people with a lot of money who are privileged and have no idea how life is like for an average person and how corporate greeds leads to us not being to afford a living.

[@voidimperial1179]

@@nobbyfirefly57 Oh no, that group knows full well what they're doing. They just don't consider you human.

[@aethelfrithofbernica]

​@@voidimperial1179 actually true. They have a specific word for us. And they believe that they, and they alone, were chosen by their God to be the rulers of the world. They have a very vicious and old memory

[@FuckingChrisKupina]

@@aethelfrithofbernica Not that precious if they keep perverting their own belief system one generation at a time... The Pharisees survived.

[@andycopeland7051]

Just like what Elon Musk said about disney: "they're worried only about looking good while doing evil."

[@idontwantahandlewhymustidothis]

Ironic for Elon to say that lol

[@FuckingChrisKupina]

@@idontwantahandlewhymustidothis At least he hates pedos... Disney encourages them. The evidence streams back for half a century...

[@GigglingStoners]

@@idontwantahandlewhymustidothis why is that

[@Yayofangamer16]

@@GigglingStoners He is a Elon hater

[@Ammy-q4w]

@@GigglingStoners Because Elon himself is an evil man. He is capitalism at it's worst. Do research if you don't believe me.

[@Jason-wp7ed]

That’s them officer! That’s the company that ruined Rocksteady! I’d like to press FULL charges! 😡

[@Kingcrimson_1456]

Bro rocksteady ruined themselves and that’s more or less WB

[@Jason-wp7ed]

@@Kingcrimson_1456Yea, I know bro. I’m just in denial & don’t wanna believe they’d willingly ruin the great legacy they built.

[@xgunnas32]

As i get older, i realize that i'm not the target audience of some game. I don't have to buy games like saint's row and forspoken. i played tiny tina and farcry 6 on a subscription and just could not handle the writing and boredom after an hour, never had that problem with a borderland or farcry game before.

[@angryhermit4291]

It getting harder to avoid it.

[@MSpotatoes]

I find lately I'm playing games that don't have writing, like factorio and terraria.

[@samuel5591]

Farcry 6 was just too bloody long by half, just like AC Valhalla. The Ubisoft formula works well in small doses but when you have a massive map absolutely covered in icons it becomes exhausting.

[@z0s_Icebaker]

@@MSpotatoes I've noticed this exact same with my playing, it's very fast and easy to simply decide avoiding some game completely just by seeing or hearing some current era moronic wokeling stuff in the game.

[@EliteFireSaint]

Gearbox went woke on Borderlands 3. Hell they even held a patch back in support of BLM. Not to mention one of the DLC's being about a gay wedding. They also couldn't seem to fix or balance the game in anyway. Splitscreen was never fixed on Xbox, they just ignored it and dropped the directors cut and the recent Tiny Tina game. Stick to Borderlands 2.

[@Illuminationsfromtheattic]

I really can't stand investment firms like Black Rock, and the whole sordid world of investors and the stock market is at the core of a lot of what's wrong with the world today IMO.

[@WombRaider7878]

Take 2 is going to turn GTA6 into a "white man bad, Republicans bad, look at my abnormal sexuality" game. This is evidenced by the head of Take2 saying they will not be making fun of "marginalized communities."

[@krasmasov6852]

Every GTA has been a Republicans Bad game lol

[@farfetchdthegamer3810]

@@krasmasov6852…see what I mean? This lot have zero comprehension. Edit: not you, this guys fans. Judging by my like ratio, hypothesis proven lol

[@WombRaider7878]

@@krasmasov6852 but also with making fun of all other political leanings. It was funny.

[@Monsolido]

The GTA5 "Bless your heart" radio segment is basically shitting on maga

[@CheeseChurger]

@@krasmasov6852 It's always shat on american politics from both sides and i've always really enjoyed that as an american.

[@FireryNight]

Rule of thumb i use when buying video games.... DO NOT BUY from NORTH AMERICA (Exception is indie games). I'm far happier 😊😊😊.

[@eotikurac]

you're still buying stuff you don't need

[@FireryNight]

@@eotikurac Indeed.

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

The cancer that is wokeness has already practically taken over Europe and Japan is in that process as well sadly

[@FireryNight]

@@My_Old_YT_Account Don't buy those games. There are always Legacy games if your disillusioned. I'm currently playing cluedo on my ps5 where I can get a self entitled black woman arrested hehe.

[@rps215]

Basically FOMO is your worst enemy. These days don't preorder, or even better wait for at least a month before buying something, especially AAA titles. Wokeness you can detect at day 1 when streamers can show it to you, but if they decide to do something nasty like adding bad microtransactions or nerfing the EXP and credit gain or making the game Pay 2 Win, they will often wait until reviews are in.

[@rugerdie4054]

It would be a shame if people started looking up their early life history of a lot of these executives to look for commonalities and influence over why they would be willing to drive this agenda. 😮

[@AverageRandom-n6z]

Would probably be better if someone as informed as you creates an easily digestible article and repository of such resources so the truth can come to light easier to as many as possible.

[@francisquebachmann7375]

Go look up Cloward-Piven Strategy.

[@slimebunny5700]

Can you say who's names I should be looking up for that, I'm curious.

[@GigglingStoners]

Every single time.

[@IxchelsBrat]

@@slimebunny5700 start with larry fink, and follow the money

[@streetside2833]

Saw a white woman with blue hair as the scriptwriter for Kill the Justice League. Wasnt gonna buy the game anyway but that just doubled my likelihood of not buying the game 😂

[@GLRYB2GD]

Fax

[@mebarkiimad4575]

Good lord it says "woke liberal" all over it 😂😂😂

[@JohanBautista-fm9xy]

It's like the blue hair a sign of their toxicity like a poisonous frog

[@mattredfield7072]

Naughty Dog died for me with the last of us part 2 I'm not interested in any of their media as long as they're pushing their crappy Agenda.

[@KeimaKatsuragiOtamegane]

Same. At this point, I don't care if they revive Jak and Daxter. They've already lost me as a customer.

[@nyfinest487]

It sucks because they are so good 😢

[@rps215]

Amy Hennig is gone

[@nyfinest487]

@@rps215 irrelevant, she has gone woke too.

[@Yayofangamer16]

I wonder why they put a synagogue in TLOU 2 👀

[@ContagionV]

It was inevitable once video games were no longer the domain of the socially shunned but instead the mainstream, where the fake fans and pretenders began to infiltrate it in large numbers. Of which has resulted in a number of practices such as this by the industry as a larger whole, that no longer take the actual end user into consideration when developing a product meant for the very same end user.

[@dhanyl2725]

I miss when bullies just bully gamers for being gamers without infiltrating the industry

[@ASlutty9SUnit]

Absolutely preach. I will, until the day I die, mourn the fact that games became mainstream. The moment anything becomes mainstream enough, it will always become something foul. I see it a lot in anime, currently, and I hope and pray that it stays _just_ weird enough that it loses momentum here. As long as the freaks keep being too freak, it'll stay at least okay.

[@Asilhan]

Most of the games published this year, especially big-shots like Baldur's Gate III, Starfield, have been afraid to put the word "gender" in their game. What the fuck is body type? They truly lost their minds.

[@GLRYB2GD]

Wooow, smh.

[@DarksideGmss0513]

60% of gamers claim that self-expression through gaming is “more important to them than ever before,” via titles including “Minecraft,” “Fortnite” and “Roblox” that allow for personal expression through “extensive customization options, open-world exploration, and other game updates.

[@chipoko1838]

If I even suspect a game is going to give me a lecture, I'm quite happy to skip it. And if I REALLY want to play it, I buy it second hand.

[@alorem123]

I don’t think it’s just as simple as money though. I genuinely think many people in positions of influence are true believers, so much so that they push on with underage gambling so long as it gets eyes on “the message.”

[@FuckingChrisKupina]

Maybe we can abuse this... It is relatively easy to get in the gambling game these days. Simply getting a Raffle License where I live also grants you legal rights to open a casino.

[@phalanx5667]

Because their ideology tells them that they need to ruin our society. It’s true and I hope people discover the truth

[@catoticneutral]

The main point of this stuff is to make people like me, a bisexual gamer, happy. It doesn't, I just find it annoying. People should make whatever kinds of games they want to make. ESG doesn't accomplish what it's supposedly meant to do, it just ruins games by encouraging people to make soulless garbage that checks boxes instead of making art. The reputation of "the gays" only gets worse in the process. They're literally profiting off of making people hate us.

[@powerbeard5653]

everyone who has ever said "there is no agenda" got completely played by their corporate overlords

[@DandyRaytona]

The agenda is “make profit” lol. Y’all just love to believe conspiracy theories instead of believing that companies like to make money.

[@powerbeard5653]

@@DandyRaytonathey are trying to make profit by pushing a political agenda. that doesn't change anything. cope harder.

[@jebemtiii]

@@DandyRaytona LOL yea its structured with incentives that way, what.

[@Cybertech134]

@@DandyRaytona Honest question: Do you have down syndrome?

[@krasmasov6852]

The agenda is to make money by targeting a wider audience. That's it. Corporations don't care about anything other than profit.

[@SamM_Scot]

Reminder that Alan Wake 2 which is on Sweet Baby Inc list race swapped Saga Anderson as she was originally a white FBI agent :-)

[@eotikurac]

they always put a black girl into the game but never a jew. that's says something too.

[@LOWBORN-the-LOATHSOME]

The Dark Presence shaded her in 😂😂😂 quite the alteration to the narrative

[@ricardojaye305]

Exactly the reason I never bought the game. Was considering buying it when first announced and even considered getting the remastered version of the first game. But after seeing the race swapped black character I boycotted it all. No doubt Remedy will be enlisting Sweet Baby Inc for the Max Payne remakes ....so that's another that will almost certainly be an instant boycott.

[@GigglingStoners]

If only that was the only thing they botched because of SweetBaby. RIP Remedy you will be missed.

[@AManChoosesASlaveObeys]

@@eotikurac neo nazis can put up with black people sometimes. Jews? Right wing black people world be in shambles

[@Deadsnake00]

The ESG model is almost predetermined to fail if only for the fact that regardless of its intention or even if the postions advocated for are agreeable to all consumers. It creates a homogeneous and repetitive series of products. Variety is necessary in the marketplace so that the most products and companies can florish. If everything is the same why would i shop at multiple places and buy multiple things. ESG creates an environment for artistic sludge to be served to the masses and eventually will destroy all companies until theres only one place to buy from

[@nathanperquin9910]

i personally think ESG driven hiring practices has led to the downfall of quality in games as much as the corporate greed up above, there is a mix of pretending snakes as wel as true believers, and if you try to point it out either side will deflect because both causes of the problem are there , pointing at each other. even if the corporate greed stopped now, games still wouldn't be good anymore as everyone now in the industry is simply incapable of producing something of quality

[@nathanperquin9910]

they are just parasitizing on the hobby, on every hobby for as long as it can function as a platform with an audience, driving it into the ground.

[@keungwan5901]

Quality in scripts and dialogue, definitely. Putting a politically correct filter on top, tends to make treated games samey, bland and safe. Not much of an adventure worth writing to home about

[@phalanx5667]

Because the people that are running black rock and the banks have infinite money. They want to shape the word to their image because they think they are better

[@Weaver_Games]

I'm a math and computer graphics guy, I worked in the game industry for years doing engine and tooling stuff. The DEI hires were largely terrible. Want to know why games are so buggy and unoptimized now a days? Cause the math, graphics, and physics types who just wanted to work on interesting problems never cared about this stuff and are getting pushed out of the industry and being replaced by people who have no idea what they're doing. I left to just do web development. It's boring, but low stress and good pay. Whatever. Hopefully I'll have the mortgage paid off in a few years.

[@miguelantero6043]

​@@Weaver_GamesI blame so-called inclusive hiring a lot, that shit puts characteristics above skills

[@1rgam3r]

The narrative in Division 2 certainly has gone down this road. The vast majority of strong characters and leadership is female with a load “check boxes” ticked along the way. Most of the men that are in leadership are wet, weak noodles or ate too many waffles for breakfast. It’s like watching the 80’s sitcoms all over again. The implication of this analysis is scary and it’s only going to get worse. Nice job. As always, a thorough breakdown. Ps. Don’t get me wrong. Gals can be great leaders but what pans out in real life vs what is written in a story are two very different things. A work of fiction is subject/slave to the whims and in intents of the writer(s).

[@spaceman2517]

Yepp thats why I stopped playing it you can see how forced it is 😂

[@ljessecusterl]

@@spaceman2517 Same here. Played every day for years and literally any male who gets within 10 miles of Sokolova is spineless, stupid, or some combination of the two.

[@jmediaa9226]

ubisoft is just the worst at this. far cry 6 was awfuly filled with check boxes.

[@nojuanatall3281]

As a lifelong gamer I cannot recommend one single ubisoft game. All the scummy ubisoft stuff aside the games aren't even good enough to pirate.

[@shaamaan]

I got those vibes just from the short open beta (or closed or whatever they offered that let me play the game briefly before it was out). Yeah, I could smell the shite a mile away.

[@PillowEgg]

I don’t buy video games where character models got hit with the ugly bat. Shitty games like Saints Row Reboot, Dead Space Reboot, Spider-Man 2, Horizon 2, The Last of Us Part 2, upcoming Fable game, Shadow of the Tomb Raider. There are some ugly women character models and woke agenda populating these games that turned me off from a purchase. I hope these companies keep self sabotaging themselves. They can join the list of dead franchises for me with Halo, Destiny, and Overwatch.

[@Kingcrimson_1456]

You do know MJ‘s face got into a car accident right and Aloy looks better in game.

[@handlesareanunfortunatefeature]

I think the complaints about being "Woke" is not necessarily about the mere fact that stuff like gay people and transgender-identifying people exist, it's how they are shown. Politics used to be alluded to in dialogues and story choices. They didn't shove flags in the face of anyone, or obviously state things like: "That doesn't matter! We need to support the trans-identifying community!" -in a world about zombies where there are some other things that would probably be more important to talk about (just making up an example here) The shoe-horned writing is what makes it offensive, and that comes because the pandering to those groups needs to be obvious enough for the average terminally-online Twitter/Reddit user to comprehend, so they don't whine and lose dollars from those investors that get spooked so easily. It's an unfortunate world, but a world we are likely stuck in because of how fandomized these kinds of movements have become. It won't be enough to just allude with a similar example anymore.

[@riptors9777]

Woke isnt simply having progressive themes in your game, heck gaming has been the most progressive entertainment medium since its inception.. nah.. woke is being pretentious and self agrandizing, its sacrificing quality for the current year real life political message in settings where it has no business being (like your zombie apocalypse example.. who the hell cares about transgender issues or race issues of current day when youre in the zombie apocalypse and could die at any moment?) Also the hypocritically forcing of this "diversity" only on western audiences when they have no problems removing all the progressive themes for other markets like china or the middle east. (No rainbow flags in spiderman games released in the middle east.. no lesbian kiss in the chinese version of star wars... etc. etc.) THAT is woke. Not having gay characters or gay romance options.. Dragon age 1 had those and sure as shit wasnt woke. (Cant say the same about inquisition though)

[@SLRModShop]

Google "Leuprorelin", don't click on any link, just look at google summary on the right of the page. _"... is a drug used in HRT (things they do to kids btw) and to castrate violent s3x offenders..."_ It's right there, for anyone to see. Wokeness is something History will condemn severely. So, when I see a pronoun in a game, it's not just a pronoun, just like a Swastika isn't just a geometric shape. Also, what's important is the INTENT, we know they don't put woke stuff in game because it benefits the story or gameplay. They're doing it as political activism. From that point on, every bit criticism is justified. Also, I invite everyone to watch the movie Volcano again and pay close attention to the social message at the end... (spoiler alert: everyone is covered in ashes, all human beings are the same, skin color is stupid) That's what leftism used to be. Fast forward 20 years later, they are the EXACT OPPOSITE. Now we're supposed to treat people differently based on the color of their skin. Just the fact that current leftism would be punched in the face by a leftist from 12 years ago says it all. Wokeness should be fought against, no excuse or explanation needed. Every trace of wokeness should be seen like a Swastika or a n-word and should not be tolerated. Full stop.

[@Yayofangamer16]

@@riptors9777 Tl;Dr

[@wrongthinker843]

Exactly. Doesn't help that their politics are also deranged.

[@trainerkam3218]

​@@riptors9777I honestly think the definition of "woke" varies from person to person. The things you're calling woke, id just call bad storytelling. A game can have an all white cast talking about how great they are for being white or for all being straight and it wouldn't fit most ppls definition of woke. From what I can tell, games have been struggling with bad writing, poor optimization, and at times, just buggy and released incomplete. None of that is inherent to having diverse characters. Also, have you seen what ppl have been calling woke? People were calling GTA 6 woke solely for having protags that weren't male and ppl have been calling the HTTYD live action movie woke because Astrid is only 3/4th white and not Nordic enough. I feel like there wouldn't be so much disagreement if ppl who use the term "woke" didn't vary from obvious racists to people who notice many games are shoeing in diversity.

[@trentr9762]

This explains why all the story based games seem to have gone to shite as of late :/

[@ronarnold1507]

Everyone won't stop tongue-bathing Baldur's Gate III, so I wonder if "all" is completely accurate?

[@drkmgic]

only one way to find out. play bg3!!!! @@ronarnold1507

[@Rellikan]

BG3 has a lot of Bisexuality but I guess the freedom to engage with whatever way you want to solve a quest is superb.

[@Claudekr]

@@ronarnold1507 Anyone praising BG3 for anything other than the gameplay (which isn't really much different than Larian's last title) is a tourist. If you're a DnD fan and respect DnD lore you aren't going to accept having your gender carousel "female identifying" drow asserting his matriarchal privilege to other male drow and having them actually accept it. And rather than "story based games", I feel western AAA games would be a better identifier. Not a single game at the $70 price point has been worth buying full price.

[@emberfist8347]

Not all. Hi-Fi Rush while flawed, has a great story with lots of clever humor.

[@DrizzyJones1]

They shoehorned it into SpiderMan2. Felt so forced, ungenuine and out of place.

[@Ammy-q4w]

Miles is literally a character from the comics, so why are all of you pretending to be surprised? Also, Spiderman has always been a heavy believer in science and is a defender of the people not an individual. If that upsets you, then why do you even like Spiderman to begin with?

[@alexe589]

​@@Ammy-q4w They are trying to replace spider-man with miles morales. Just including him isn't woke, but replacing Peter Parker with Miles because Peter is a white man is. Then you have the pointless inclusion of his deaf POC girlfriend, pride flags and BLM murals, butterface Mary-Sue Watson, a Peter that has to apologize for not giving everything his gf wants because he was too busy saving people, and more.

[@TVforyourCats]

@@Ammy-q4wNPC response 😂

[@l0lLorenzol0l]

SweetBaby is a sympthom of the deeper cancer, not the causw.

[@collapseobserver]

Yeah, sounds like they're simply a response to a market demand for 'wokeness consultants', a demand created partly by ESG, and partly by general culture war tribalism

[@bc-cu4on]

It's money. Academia, govt, corp, they're all controlled through money.

[@de14jabs]

Who controls the money again? Call me whatever, but a liar ain't it.

[@FuckingChrisKupina]

@@de14jabs believers in the demiurge.

[@kril859]

Bro wtf has woke todo with Diablo having no endgame or Gollum looking like a piece of shit. People have to use political excuses for everything even tho there is clearly incompetence involved in it more than anything else

[@aftereight9143]

Even if Blackrock were to go away I doubt things would change much. Developers took a stand against gamers and in support of the press during gamergate; in their eyes gamers are dead and should not be catered to in any way. They'll keep putting out cringe as long as it helps them virtue signal. It's not just the people at the top doing it for the money, the workers themselves are woke cultists who believe in the cause and spend too much time on social media.

[@killgriffinnow]

This is the truth that no one wants to accept

[@MrEffectfilms]

How do you know this?

[@masterlinktm]

Well, if you mean JUST Blackrock, then no it wouldn't since there are 4+ firms that they work with, like Vangaurd. But if you mean all the Blackrock [ESG] type influencers, then yes it would change. Why do you think all the companies hire "diverse" woke, nutjobs? Those "Developers" and "journalists" would be fired faster than light, if ESG money disappeared. "Diversity" hires have been proven to be worse than their non-woke counterparts time and time again.

[@KPX01]

@@MrEffectfilms action from the game dev like neil, themselves.

[@MrEffectfilms]

@@KPX01 is it just him?

[@AncestorEmpire1]

I’m display this in the classic Star Trek format: Answer 1: having the development and publishing studios in states or countries that are Uber progressive Answer 2: the rot influences that is Hollywood Answer 3: the modern day creative writer came from Tumblr blogs.

[@FuckingChrisKupina]

"All of the above"

[@maxmikester8185]

ESG and/or private equity needs to be outlawed. This is basically saying ‘haha we control your messages, better listen or no money for you!’ What an Orwellian disaster the world has become.

[@josephmassaro]

In addition, several annual reports show that these companies are actually scaling back on their ESG investments. The return is no longer what it used to be and they see no reason to invest as heavily into what amounts to looking good.

[@johnwiks2597]

DEI or ESG is the old model, which is also pushed by the WEF and their 2030 agenda. Many people still think it's a "conspiracy theory", however, the conspiracy is an open one with literature easily available. Back to my first comment though, the new model is run under diversity and sustainability. This move seems to be in response to the increased awareness of the groups global goals...some of which are to reduce the population, and reduce carbon in the environment. Use your imagination for how they might accomplish that. Either way Blackrock, Vanguard and other investment firms are being used as tools for change by powerful think tanks funded by very influential and obscure individuals and groups.

[@TheBatman39]

Your video deserves far more views man; it's incredible how you spoke about this before the recent debacle.