I don't know if you guys have gotten the same sense I have, but whereas last year, the left seemed confused and scattered and were keeping their heads down in the cultural space, and as a result there was basically no "gay pride" stuff across the country on the scale we had seen in the past, as people were genuinely worried about a Zeitgeist shift; now, it seems like the left are getting bolder and bolder again in the internet space. They're being more open about wokeness. They have the same expectation of not being called a faggot for promoting certain stuff that they did in 2022. I predict that this June, we're going to see an uptick in "rainbow people" promotion and whatnot than last year. Not as high as it was under Biden, but still higher than the low that was last year. I get the sense when I look online that the left, whereas temporarily were discombobulated, are now just biding their time. In some ways they're worse and woker than they even were before, and are just waiting to exact revenge. That's the "feel" I get when I'm on Youtube or other places. Have you observed this same "tone"? It's not something I can pin down exactly....it's more just a way they carry themselves. They have shifted from the aggressive fighters of the religion of wokeness to more of a European mindset of "this is the accepted baseline of truth" within their circles even more than they were in the past. And once a society has an established, codified framework, it's only one power change until the consequences for going against it are persecution. Wokeness feels codified in the left in a way I didn't even feel from the Biden regime, where plenty of infighting with their intersectional Olympics. They kind of have, more like the black community, settled into ingroup preference in a way that's unsettling where anti "other" is more important than their pet issues and they're more in agreement on certain "dogmas".
Maybe I'm just projecting things that aren't there and reading things that aren't there, but it's just the sense I've gotten over the past 4 - 6 months or so.
Even the gays are getting fatigued of it. It was their thing but became corporate sponsors and straight women virtue signaling. Apparently the whole thing now has the vibe of a school "rave" sponsored by the PTA. Hollow, cringe, sold-out, and only NPCs or those trying to hold onto some nostalgia from when it made them feel edgy or counter-culture decades ago.
You're actually correct... I am seeing some of them (almost exclusively gay men) speaking out against this, especially in some random YouTube video comment sections.
Being pandered to properly is great. Bethesda making their logo multi-colored everywhere except where it matters, on the other hand, is more just kicking sand in their face. "We stand with you! ...Except where LGBT are oppressed, or even just mildly looked down upon. Then, fuck 'em. But so long as they're the dominant political force, we stand with you!"
Any man with even half a working brain sees that and goes "yeah, fuck that company, and this virtue signal".