https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA5GTYzySEs
This one is remarkable, I've watched Callum Upton for quite awhile and always enjoyed his takedowns of studios and all the dumb shit they get up to in order to pull the wool over consumers eyes. Here though despite clearly being quite a part of the gaming community and generally being knowledgeable he comes across as completely ignorant. I went away after getting annoyed at his video and came back to do a more measured response
The video he does is incredibly dismissive and misses the point entirely that people have about gender pronouns and how yes it is a problem if you pander to such a small percentage of people ( At least he admits what he is doing along with other devs ) and he must know he's talking crap because he then like every other ignorant person on this topic decides to resort to gaslighting the audience for the rest of the video going on about how it's no big deal.
Which let's be real, is not an actual argument against gender pronouns, I think that's my biggest problem with this however the NPCs seem to have gotten their firmware updates and this is being repeated across the internet. His comments page as well seems to almost suspiciously be filled with this sort of response of people going "Not big deal" "Why people mad?" and they fucking know exactly what they're doing.
Looks like the devs who do this are just asking for a second GamerGate, except this time it's going to happen in the dev space, not the gamer space. They realised they couldn't really get anywhere with gamers which is why they spam propaganda so often calling us all bigots, so they've been going after clueless and lazy devs who get their ignorance reinforced by these SJWs spamming their comments pages with positive feedback and dismissing anyone who complains.
What is interesting to me is witnessing this shit happen to somebody I've followed in real time. This is how it's done, it seems to be less malicious for a lot of them and more that they simply don't know any better. They get surrounded in a protective bubble by leftists they pander to and they have no idea how bad these people are until the mob finally turns on them after they've gained enough power.
I'm going to state being a wannabe indie dev myself, I'm a dev and I am 100% behind your rights as consumers to boycott this shit if you don't want anything to do with it and yes I know the actual reasons why gender pronouns are bad.
Also, gender is binary, there are only two of them, this is non-negotiable. I can't believe I'm taking a fucking TERF position but here we are lol. Really disappointed with Callum actually as I've pointed people to his videos in the past and he's clearly done zero research on this topic if his reactions are genuine.
It's funny how Heelvsbabyface's bit (because he did say he was doing an overexaggeration for a bit) revealed a lot of the panderers out of the woodwork quick. Like they were really worried if this caught on and a lot of people went 'he has a point' it would really hurt their sales...
It's just an indicator of how shallow a lot of the writing is for video games, you see the downgrade in just a single series. Like look at the writing for Fallout NV and Fallout 4, NV has sameness relationships but no one cared because they weren't just that as their identity, compare that to today's writing and their entire identity seems to be 'I'm a guy that likes it in the ass'.
The fact that like in reality, pronouns are the laziest way to pretend to be special pisses people off because of the lack of effort.
It also revealed how quickly they spread this shit around to set up their narratives.
Like, Az was basically a nobody in his niche who no one cared about beyond his audience who all absolutely agree with everything he said, if not how he said it.
But suddenly, now his rant is in every corner of the internet. Setup to show "man angry over pronouns" and have every journalist and meme page ready to keep up the facade of "if you disagree with pronouns, you are this man" and keep the power structure in their favor.
Not just journalists, every limp-dicked YouTuber will start gaslighting everyone into thinking that being critical of “pronouns” is ridiculous. The faggot Dunkey has already mentioned it in a video and I’m sure MoistCritikal will be next.
I'm just surprised people expected otherwise, most popular youtubers/streamers etc are part of the grift or retarded. Even with fuck you money that does not seem to change.
Eh, fuck it. Who cares if they frame the anti-pronouns crowd as le angry gamers? Be vocal, pest Bethesda about it, the woketards always get their way because they are willing to throw a tantrum at every opportunity