When in the list of someone’s biggest societal concerns you find video games, you know that you don’t have to take that person very seriously.

It’s just another Gamergate-style harassment campaign based on bigotry (complaining about “forced diversity”) and complete nonsense

The “anti-woke” crowd has been brewing hate for pretty much every single game that has come out in the last 5 years that doesnt adhere perfectly to their ever moving standards. Groups centered around hate eventually have to lash out at some scapegoat.

The sweet baby inc company itself isn’t something worth defending. They are what a bankrupt system spawns when it wants to pretend to care about morals and minorities. Strangely enough, for the kind of company it is, this would probably not have become gamergate 2 if they had given their employees some social media training or flat out told them to not engage.

Either way, due to how it’s been framed as an anti-woke crusade from the beginning, I don’t expect it to go anywhere. The original gamergate had that surface “concerns about ethics in gaming journalism” that dragged ignorant people into it, but it won’t happen here.

Sweet baby is part of a bigger group that seems to fund under represented members of the game industry, and possibly offering consulting services for other companies to try not to be canceled. That’s what they seem to be, now the situation is as follows, the bigger company hires them to do a consulting job, the aftermath is that any perceived wokeness is attributed to the consulting party (regardless if the advice they offered was heeded or not), which brews hate from the biggots around, and this hate is further expanded when they “exclude” white cis men, by offering grants of their own private money to minorities. Plus they are butthurt cause they’ve been called picky babies on one game development conference by someone in the group.

I’ve not even heard of any debacle outside of people saying “in light of this debacle”. What’s the story?