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 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.