These days I find in gaming and anime conventions/communities, it's usually a lot of pasty gay white liberals who have so much self-hatred for being American, that they flood the video game and anime communities which were sort of Asian culture. From what I've seen at conventions, it's usually the self hating white kids who wanna be anything else besides American, so they have that "alt look" and think it's suddenly cool to be in the anime community. Except they're usually gay, so you'll see them crossdresser. Girls dressing up as guys and using non-binary pronouns, and the guys are usually dressed up as girls. The straight hetero girls are usually liberal women as well. I mean why? Is anime and video games not interesting for conservatives?
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I wouldn't worry too much about it. Gamers are pretty good about sorting out what they don't want.
If gamers don't want to be around the "woke" crud... then they will just go elsewhere. There are a lot of options available, and the money will follow the crowd.
it's sad though, i remember the anime and video game scene was just for normal nerds to have fun. now it's for gay liberals to feel "Un-American" and "escape homophobia" or some shit
Sony agrees
It's not just video games and anime, but any media that has relevancy in the public zeitgeist. Activists working in the space see any medium with popularity as a vehicle to further their own ideology first and foremost, while innovation, novelty and creativity all take a back seat. The MESSAGE is the priority.
The tide is definitely turning though. Woke movies, shows and games are all finally getting the treatment they deserve. Most recently with the Concord video game failure, but there are plenty of recent examples across all media.
Video games and anime are most certainly another front to the ongoing culture war and they should be treated as such. Why certain users (boomers) on this board feel like it's necessary to shit all over games is beyond me, but with every thread on the topic there is a least one person virtue-signaling about their distaste of games, claiming more productive uses of time (while doom-scrolling and watching food network for 6hrs a day no doubt). For whatever reason, they seem proud of their ignorance in these areas, and are compelled to weigh-in on topics they know nothing about.
Bith are forms of art. Art is beauty and they seek to corrupt beauty
Anything beautiful, inspirational, that invokes good joy and anything deep, as been infiltrated and subverted
American Conservatives and ‘The Right’ mostly abandoned the Humanities and creative fields by the late 90s and early 2000s in academia for a variety of reasons. Meaning many of the people institutions are churning out now to fill roles at game companies etc. Are parroting the appropriate university politics.
And the American Conservatives are only now barely shaking off the stigma of being the boomers and moral busybodies who tried to ban DnD, Pokémon, and (insert popular 80s-90s and early 2000s franchise for teenagers/kids). And realizing pop-culture isn’t something you are able to ignore. Or squash. Much to the bitter coping of the remnants of the Christian Conservative Busybodies of the 80s and 90s like Matt Walsh.
And we see the result of abandoning a battlefield.
because children
Because it's media, and they were late to the videogame and anime boom, so they're hitting it hard now.
The ACTING Unions put pressure on the Gaming Industry to hire Union Actors. Then no doubt they brought in their Woke Ideology prewritten for them by Blackrock and friends. Now they have help destroy their own Golden Goose. Sad.
Apparently George Soros infiltrated big loads of money into the major gaming companies about 10 years ago. Makes sense
Which is just before GamerGate happened and the most repugnant parasites that caused it started getting propped up. Makes sense.
No not really. Most that I know, spend their time doing something more productive.
Underrated comment here.
I know a lot of people don't like to hear this, but video games can be a tremendous time suck, as can porn, instagram, tiktok, Netflix, whatever. And you know that the profits they siphon off you ain't going to Conservative causes, right?
Conservatives are the doers of the world. Most of us don't have time for that shit - we're doing real stuff in real life.
Video games, table top games, D&D, anime, comic books, software etc were all Nerd shit. Nerds didn’t fit in well, they were often losers. Now the cure for being a loser is to larp as a communist, hate your own race or get your dick cut off. Same people just their minds are corrupted now.
Most nerds don't care for any of that faggot shit, especially since it's utterly illogical. The Asian fans hate these people even more and work harder to gatekeep them out.
Because they are parasites.
To corrupt the children. That is it. Plus make money doing it.
Yes pla-yah, and lots and lots of money!
Infiltration not invasion
Both can be true at the same time. Infiltration is stealthy and mostly in the studios, the obvious behavior in public that the OP describes is outright invasion.