Couldn’t be bothered to watch the vid, but I think that- of course, on one hand, diversity and inclusion is always a good thing. And conscious, genuine progressivism is too.

On the other hand, there is a very clear and (IMO) undeniable grifting industry of “wokeness,” which has appropriated the term (and maybe could be said to have predominantly usurped it) from its original contexts, to ply it for capital and virtue signalling (the liberal ie. capitalist equivalent of jerking themselves off to how great and enlightened they are- which naturally also then immediately gets used against all the “unwashed, colored, etc masses who are so barbaric and in need of western liberal civilization.”)

Everyone can see this, one would have to be willfully ignorant not to see this. Western capital can congratulate themselves and flaunt how superior they are by making a play where historical slave owners and genocidaires are black and brown (how progressive!), turning a cartoon mermaid into a black woman (nothing wrong with that, but everyone knows the reboots suck- and no, global audiences having no interest does not mean they are somehow “racist”), or- as an example of the heights of barbarism they can utilize this for- bringing in the first black figurehead (POTUS) to destroy Africa’s most developed country, destroy black wealth/homeownership, engage in countless war crimes against black and brown people, and “pivot to Asia” to attempt to destroy the brightest light of development and recovery of the non-white, colonized, exploited peoples. Hell, capitalist virtue signaling can even be used to (and is widely being used to) whitewash literal industrial genocide and a white (ethnically Jewish) supremacist, apartheid ethnostate, as in the case of Isntreal. It can be used to whitewash literal, genuine, goosestepping Nazis (not neo-Nazis, Nazis) like those in Ukraine.

The “sweet baby inc” debacle strikes me as pretty characteristic of this… “virtue industry” (which has no relation whatsoever to actual virtue and actually oftentimes contains an immense degree of deeply “unvirtuous” western chauvinism). For all that I’ve seen it strikes me as a issue of western faux-progressive liberal smuglords, trying to extort a dev from the other side of the world (China), failing, and crying about it to their fellow nepotists/western media circlejerkers that tout themselves as “journalism” (same as with world news journalism or any other kind of journalism- the west loves to get their nasty, grubby hands on it and claim to be the authority of all that is good and bad, true and untrue). And it strikes me also as western “journalism”- of which “gaming journalism/media” does not exist in some vacuum, or isolated from the collective west and western “journalistic” circles- collectively joining hands to shit on, falsify, slander, and wildly misrepresent the history and present reality of a Chinese gaming studio, as well as statements purportedly said (and mistranslated).

So- yes, “woke” liberal media sucks. Not because they have a veneer of “diversity and inclusivity” (these things are genuinely positive), but because they’re the self-masturbatory abortions of the most deluded and smug of the vaunted capitalist “intelligentsia,” generally lacking any authenticity, substance, or anything beyond the omnipresent smugness of its creators.

Actual woke (diverse, inclusive, actually progressive) media is awesome. The shit spewed by liberal smuglords has no relation (at most, it’s trying to appropriate and imitate- and failing hilariously).