I mean, it's obvious they're gonna do it. I can see it now...
"Bigoted right-wing trolls have created a Steam Curator group to attack Sweet Baby Inc and Chris Kindred, an employee of the company. SBI is a consulting group dedicated to diversity and inclusion in video games and these bigoted white male Capital-G Gamers have been harassing this wonderful company. This is just evidence that we need MORE diversity and inclusion in games, and that we need to push these toxic white cisheteronormative men out of gaming! Gamers are dead, gamers don't have to be your audience! This would never have happened if Donald Trump didn't steal the 2016 election (but Joe Biden absolutely did not steal the election in 2020 because our elections are secure!) and thus if Donald Trump gets elected again, then it's Gamers and BabyGaters fault!"
And then the next thing you know, every mainstream website will start auto-banning people for mentioning SBI in a negative light or supporting the SBI Detected group (which will probably get banned). Those nasty, misogynistic, racist BabyGaters will be silenced by any means necessary!
...I feel like I've seen this one before...
But it will also have a good amount of people wake up. We need new blood. 2014 seems like a different lifetime.
The west is being invaded and communist demons occupy most levers of power. Video game problems aren’t exactly ranking these days.
Control over cultural institutions always ranks as significant.
They weren't in the early '10s, either, and yet we went and got Orange Hitler elected nonetheless.
Now, if it was an either/or, you'd be right. Either call out the communist demons running the show OR call out the communist demons ruining video games? Pretty easy choice. But we can do both, and the video game issue is likely to attract/wake up more normies.
Most important issue of our time? Nope. But could still be impactful or even pivotal, especially if SBI people keep behaving like absolute fucking cultist lunatics. I doubt they'll make the same mistake and make it as big, but this really could be a mini (baby, if you will) gamergate again.
I recall Julian Assange saying gamergate and the biased and corrupt gaming media was but a microcosm of the whole journalist media industry at large. In some ways gamergate did in fact wake people up to the full blown leftist takeover of the west.
'Attack' here is a load-bearing word. It's like saying LibsOfTikTok attacks by reposting retard's TikToks.
"Your speech is violence and our violence is speech!"
You just know they've got some gay ops discord server going where they conspire to fuck up games. Gamejournopros all over again.
Why is it when I saw 'Babygate', in my mind I didn't go to Sweet Baby but thought 'What has Babymetal done that's controversial recently?'
There will be a few that try but the major ones will try to memory hole instead as they DON'T want normies to get pattern recognition that the reason their once fun games are shit now is their involvement.
I can easily see Babymetal finding themselves in the prog crosshairs. Those women are attractive and actually talented.
If they had any other MO, it wouldn't feel so similar.
I hope it explodes into Gamergate 2
Has anyone asked noted Gamer Gate expert Wil Wheaton what we're supposed to think about this?
I feel so lost.
Just beat them to the punch. Make posts about sweet baby ink can be explicitly candid about what it is they do, then attach #BabyGate to it.
If they want to bring more attention to SweetBaby then by all means go ahead and try.
I saw some speculation they're going to fake harassment against themselves, similar to what occurred during Gamergate. Seems kind of inevitable to be honest. That's how these people operate.
"Like water off their backs.."
It's funny because you'd think they'd be proud to be called out, "Yes we worked on these games, we're proud of our writing, we think it's important and necessary, etc."
Instead they hiss like vipers and scatter like roaches.
Forget the articles, when is Kim Belair going to be invited to Stephen Colbert's show and then the United Nations to give a talk about how much cyber-bullying she totally received guys. Sweet Baby Inc is being primed to become consultants in Hollywood and the like if they aren't already.
Nah, as is often the case, the coverup is worse than the crime. One of the SBI people tried to send a mob after a Steam curator and the user who started it; that's what might make this blow up.
Pretty much yeah.