I remember encountering one of these creature son the KIA reddit sub claiming that consumers totes want less sexy female characters according to marketing research, then out the other side of his mouth he mentioned that gacha games still have plenty of sexy female characters and I mocked him for the fact that gacha games are way more profitable than AAA titles. Also wasn't in the mood to do research so I just mocked the fields of marketing and advertising as being comprised of professional bullshitters who are more interested in justifying their salary to out of touch boomer execs who can be swindled into thinking these guys actually make them money, than in actually making the company money.

Reminds me of how much if not most of the data from big tech platforms is junk because of the prevalence of bots, and it's only a matter of time until the corporate world finally figures this out and stops pouring money into these companies, at which point there will be a big tech crash. It's already happening, albeit slowly, as old habits die hard. And Musk was one of the first people to get ahead of the curve on this, by turning twatter into a subscription service with a pool of verified users whose marketing data is actually legit, although the porn bots have made twatter a pain in the ass to use as of late.