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.