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I see this a lot with people who are in denial over ESG starting to affect Japanese games just because there are still waifus in them
Yeah. There are two kinds of woke properties:
We're seeing a lot of Japanese games go the second route to boil the frog. People will point to the first examples as media that is "actually woke", while accepting the media with the second set of parameters.
Every time people accept the second set of parameters, companies will move closer towards the first set of parameters, until people stop opting out.
It's all about slowly pushing the Overton Window ever further left.
Street Fighter 6 is a good example for the second one. People were too busy memeing about Cammy's ass and Chun Li's legs, but when you point out the other ugly characters like Marissa who just looks like a man with a girly haircut, the black drag queen host in the story mode, and the asexual character creator mode, then they just get angry and accuse you of nitpicking.
That's a really good example.
I've seen similar defences for Spider-Man 2 as well.
As this trend continues there will be more and more people defending woke media; pointing to the first example of a product that's "actually woke" and then reprimanding people for calling the second example woke.