So Trump has won the 2024 election. This seems to be one part of a big political realignment.
How much of that do you think will be reflected in pop culture? Are we finally going to see video games, movies, TV shows, etc. without Marxist propaganda, anti male or femininity plot points or mechanics, pronouns, or the blatant belittling of the aspects of traditional heroes?
On video games, will developers be less incentivized to do things like make them online only, hire firms like Sweet Baby Inc, put more time and care into the Day 1 releases, and be in a better position to make them more like how they were in the 2000s?
Or will we just see more of the same?
Bitter, angry people doubling down on destructive and divisive ideas being forced into mediums that were supposed to just entertain and uplift people. Destroying the mainstream pop culture world with a "better to burn out than fade away" philosophy.
I thought this is a great time to start a discussion like this.
Could Trump's victory and the ensuing political realignment mean an end to cultural wokeness and a return to putting one's customers first? I'd love to see your guys' thoughts on this topic.
I think we've been seeing more awareness around groups like Sweet Baby Inc and how they're little more than vehicles to bully and con developers into making games woke.
Therefore, it seems less companies have become inclined to work with them and games with clues of their involvement have been underperforming left and right.
Do you think this could at least translate into more customers becoming more vigilant about signs of wokeness, avoiding products with those things, and using word of mouth to promote better design and marketing philosophies?
Sort of like how the election fraud of 2020 was so absurd, unprecedented, and massive that people frankly didn't know how to deal with it. But then we learned what to look out for; and come 2024, better safeguards were put in place and it didn't work as well for the Dems this time.
Sure, remember how wokeness got here in the first place. Wokeness promotes being an "educated consumer". They buy "fair-trade, organic" whatever because of their political alignment, even though it's more expensive. That's why marketing teams use it as a sales pitch to the C-suite.
The problem is that the entire marketing industry is now comprised entirely of corporate Antifa; so they will straight up lie about whether or not gamers want SJW politics.
In gaming we don't have the ability to make institutional safegaurds. We actually have to straight up defund the bad institutions, and ask good institutions to make apolitical good games, or make anti-Leftist declarations.
This has been the problem. The customers have been there since 2014, that's what GamerGate became. We really need separate institutions at this point.