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.
We are not in the cultural institutions, we are just rebuking the institutions politically. Gaming isn't funded by the government, and isn't well connected, so the problem in gaming is a genuine infiltration by Leftists.
These "bitter, angry people" are Communist terrorists. They are Eric Harris and Dylan Kleebold being the Principle and Vice Principle of Columbine High. You are still not going to be able to get them to leave. You have to bulldoze the institution with them inside, and they won't give you another option. Just don't be afraid to do it.
The rest of us who don't have institutional power have to keep building and gatekeeping anti-parallel institutions. When the economy finally falters, gaming will go with it, and our anti-parallel institutions will be the ones where all growth will come from.
It is in Europe. Big corporations get subsidies and some smaller games solely exist because of government grants. That hilariously bad game from IIRC Norway where your superpowers are literally to get triggered and yell "RACISM!!1" comes to mind.
The gaming equivalent of Uwe Boll movies.
Boll got money because Germany had a system to get tax credits if you invest in movies. He got his money from investors who used it as a tax write-off.
These days companies get money straight from the government to produce propaganda and conform to their ideology. Amusing anecdote: in Germany if you want government money for cultural/media projects one of the requirements to qualify is that you have to use recycled toilet paper.