Valve doesn't make any cosmetics for TF2 anymore, they just sell fan made items. A fan made a misc and hid a suicide flag in the textures as a (successful) attempt to slip ideology in a hat collecting simulator.
There is a rainbow tie accessory for Pyro, make of that what you will. IIRC it may also be possible to customize colors for some items to make it a rainbow.
It seems possible to me that Valve's issue was more that someone was trying to sneak this by without getting it approved rather than the content itself. But I do think Valve tries to stay out of any overt politics.
With Pyro you at least have the plausible deniability of Pyro being canonically psychotic and viewing the world through a lens of rainbows, unicorns and lollipops.
Valve lets the community make cosmetic items in their games (Dota2, CSGO, TF2). You submit an item, sometimes people get to vote for it, and eventually it gets put in the game and people can collect it / buy it.
For the cosmetic in question there is an id card involved over the a shirt. Looks completely normal.
Except the backside of the card has the fag flags. Something that you would never see when looking at the cosmetic.
So a guy at Valve looked at the cosmetic and thought "Yeah looks fine, can be in the game". Cause why would he assume the cosmetic creator would put a hidden message in the cosmetic?
How did the flags get into the game?
Was it some community mod? Did a Valve dev put it into the core game? Did troons just make their existence up on some wiki?
Valve doesn't make any cosmetics for TF2 anymore, they just sell fan made items. A fan made a misc and hid a suicide flag in the textures as a (successful) attempt to slip ideology in a hat collecting simulator.
Forever the best description of TF2.
So does that mean it’s against Valves terms for fan made items to have fag flags?
There is a rainbow tie accessory for Pyro, make of that what you will. IIRC it may also be possible to customize colors for some items to make it a rainbow.
It seems possible to me that Valve's issue was more that someone was trying to sneak this by without getting it approved rather than the content itself. But I do think Valve tries to stay out of any overt politics.
With Pyro you at least have the plausible deniability of Pyro being canonically psychotic and viewing the world through a lens of rainbows, unicorns and lollipops.
Valve lets the community make cosmetic items in their games (Dota2, CSGO, TF2). You submit an item, sometimes people get to vote for it, and eventually it gets put in the game and people can collect it / buy it.
For the cosmetic in question there is an id card involved over the a shirt. Looks completely normal.
Except the backside of the card has the fag flags. Something that you would never see when looking at the cosmetic.
So a guy at Valve looked at the cosmetic and thought "Yeah looks fine, can be in the game". Cause why would he assume the cosmetic creator would put a hidden message in the cosmetic?