I'm a masochist for still playing Guild Wars 2
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Back in 2016 in the WvW scene there was pretty favorable reception to the election results. Within a month people were running around shouting "make Black Gate great again". You're always gonna have people from both camps but it seemed like there was a healthy mix of Trump supporters roaming around back then. No idea what it looks like these days. I bounced out hard around the time they introduced mounts which utterly ruined the aesthetic of WvW.
After I dropped WoW in 2018ish I wandered from game to game for a bit, and got back into GW2 enough to level up some long-abandoned characters. There were lots of ACAB-like guild tags I saw while walking around (including that one specifically), and it felt like being in enemy territory. It has to be way worse now.
I think it was here that I saw screenies/video of some character dialogue where they were referring to some expansion badguy as a "fascist." ANet is centered in Washington state, so I guess that tracks.
I barely played wvw till last year, but mounts really changed the under-5 roaming play, and more specs have high mobility.