How long is the internet going to pretend that indie gaming is some kind of bastion of creativity and ingenuity? For YEARS, we have been assaulted with trailers of indie games that push the same propaganda as AAA games, if not worse than AAA games oftentimes. So many indie games have female protagonists, or LGBT, or black women as protagonists and are filled with SJW themes or marvel slop humor and dialogue. Even the ones that aren’t filled with that garbage tend to just make derivative games that regurgitate the same survival crafting, farming, souls-like, deck-building or roguelite/roguelike elements in their games. They are just as guilty of trend-chasing and soullessness as the AA and AAA studios.
You can tell me, “not all indie games are like that,” but if we are giving such leniency to indie gaming as a whole, why do we not do the same for AAA games? AAA games of today are complete slop, with a few exceptions mainly coming out of Japan, and I feel the same way about indie games nowadays.
Why do we continue to defend indie gaming when the indie gaming clique is overwhelmingly filled with the same SJWs who write for game media sites like Kotaku, or work in consultancy groups like Sweet Baby Inc? A big part of GamerGate was the relationship between indie devs and game journalists and how corrupt the relationship was and most likely still is, whether they were having sex for positive coverage, giving financial incentives such as profit-sharing for positive coverage or awards, or just getting positive coverage because they were good friends with the game journos without any disclosures by the game journos, indie devs were at the heart of all of this controversy and the fact that people are willing to give indie gaming a pass for all the woke shit they are inserting into their games is absurd.
It’s ok to praise indie games when they are done well, but it’s foolish to believe that the indie developers producing anything of actual value would be the ones who take over the industry and not the SJWs who are seemingly able to fail their way upwards.
It's not about the slop existing, it's about the slop being used for predictive programming and cultural influence.
Normalising degenerative behaviours and encouraging people to accept ideologies themed around enabling societal decay.
For instance, you can say that BLM is "childish drama", but it encouraged countless people across places like America and parts of the U.K., Germany and France to riot, loot and cause destruction. That was not childish drama, it was physical, purposeful chaos where a lot of people lost a lot of their livelihood, and some lost their lives.
BLM was not something that happened in a vacuum -- it was a coordinated effort by politicians and the media alike, utlising almost every avenue of cultural interaction to rile people up to destroy aspects of civil society.
In isolation you can definitely say things like propaganda-filled indie/AA/AAA games are pointless to get angry about, but when you look at it from the collective point of view, the broader message that is being reinforced across other mediums, you begin to see how damaging its effects can be.
For instance, when you have ideologues using music, movies, shows, news, and video games to push degenerative messages, eventually it influences how those people think and behave. It's Cultivation Theory in practice, and -- as the BLM example shows -- it works.