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.
Entertainment and pop-culture in general will always generate a dynamic wherein you got the mainstream, the controlled opposition/competition to the mainstream in the form of astroturfed Indie™/Alt™ content, and then you have the real indie/alt scenes that are just waiting to be tapped as pop-cultural oil reservoirs. The constant upcycling of marginal subcultures into mainstream entertainment genres is the engine of pop-culture itself, because the object of pop-culture is the paradoxical condition of being a popular loser, hence why it's so hilarious that Kurt Cobaine blew off his head in the name of "authenticity," only for his turbocunt widow to make the commercial value of his brand skyrocket. It's what he gets for being such a self-righteous faggot.
But anyways, my point is in any entertainment industry, there's an easy trap to fall into of becoming Rage Against the Machine or Hot Topic or some other brand of fashionable social-signaling masquerading as rebellion, and boy if the left hasn't mastered the art of being the court dissident. So "indie" scenes are always gonna be infested by the same milieu that comprised the mainstream industry in the first place, coming from the same neighborhoods and the same schools, running in the same professions and convention circuits and cliques, getting glowing coverage by their friends in the MSM to get launched into becoming the next big "outsider" hit, etc.
I mean shit, that's also social media these days. Almost every big e-celeb today was handpicked by a talent agency and pushed on normies by the algorithm, and that's frankly the history of pop-culture in general, with some exceptions. So while I hate blackpill shit, it's extremely important to not fall for controlled competition masquerading as "indie." Much like how Microsoft sponsors a lot of Linux projects and Google sponsors Mozilla and tons of Silicon Valley startups, you gotta be weary of astroturf fuckery and willing to autistically screech at it like how HarmfulOpinions fucked up Candid's attempt to astroturf a free speech app for the sake of training a censorship AI.