Beware the ESG Ray™
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CONTEXT for those who don't know.
Pokémon GO! just updated their mobile platform outside of Japan and all the players have had their online avatars, which they had previously customised, "Updated" to be more realistic.
This means the many girls who play (A sizeable amount) have now been made to look more manly in frame and not as conventionally pretty as intended and the boy players have been androgenised into effeminate Twinks.
This wasn't an opt-in change and didn't get implemented in Japan, who are now having a good chuckle at other players around the world for their grotesque representation in game.
It appears the ESG filter is mandatory and robs living individuals of their online autonomy and creativity in how they wish to be perceived in that space.
I would suggest that it needs to be changed as it disregards the right to freedom of expression as defined by the 1947 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
That or they roll it out in Japan too and call it a global update.
I was not aware the graphical update was not globally applied. That should really make one wonder why certain regions got the uglification update and others didn't. Hopefully some normies wake up from it.
The thinking is that the Japanese market would reject it and go to a different game/franchise altogether having been offended.
I can't say for sure but I can tell you that it wasn't rolled out in Japan (Yet, or probably ever - unless it's a consent opt-in thing).
Because that would piss off the Japanese players which would then get more easily brought to the attention of the higher-ups in Nintendo of Japan, which I'm guessing the people who made this change want to avoid.