GTA VI protagonist will apparently be a Latina single mom…
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surprised she looks attractive, although im sure her in game model will be Mary Jane'D
Not surprising -- you can use the attractive model to displace criticisms.
We're already seeing it across the board with people openly defending Rockstar saying "If they went woke, she wouldn't be attractive".
They can't seem to parse the logic that a character can be attractive and the game can still be woke.
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.