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.
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.
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.