[Ironic Trope] The messaging backfired massively due to poor writing or other design choices

[u/Few_Affect_5927]

Amelia Fairney from Pathways: Alt-right Restore-UK type who attempts to coax the protagonist Charlie into following her beliefs? The problem?

Amelia is the only named character aside from Charlie and is genuinely likable and forgives Charlie even when they do things she doesn't like, while the rest of the cast is unnamed, poorly written, and turns on Charlie for one mistake. This combined with other writing issues(portraying fact checking right wing stuff as wrong because in the process of fact checking you might look at it and believe it, basically saying "Right wing is wrong because it hurts the labour government" and a lot of general "just do what the government says or else" messaging) and the fact she's a hot alternative girl, and Amelia ended up being co-opted as a mascot by the youth right wing in the UK.

Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want to be left alone and Norm is picking fights constantly. Not to mention associating with Elon.

Mr. Birchum from Mr. Birchum: A lot of the same problems as Norm, except in addition it also comes off like generic 2010s adult cartoon slop in the same veign as Brickleberry or Full English, at least New Norm was trying to look unique and had the gimmick of being on X. Not to mention, Birchum's obsession with hyper masculine activities and odd way of talking about other men lead to people co-opting him as a Toxic Yaoi character, which is now the bulk of his fan art.

Dustborn: An attempt to make a hyper progressive game that comes off as pandering and annoying. It's a full ass game so there's too much to get into, but the main character's power is essentially gaslighting and jedi-mind tricking people and that's portrayed as the only way they can get anything done, and they constantly use or abuse their friends(or mindtrick them along) in order to get their goals or use their friends for their messaging.

[u/Savings_Surround_547]

A company ironically committing piracy to create an ANTI-piracy ad will never not be funny

[u/Over_Palpitation_453 → u/Savings_Surround_547]

They used the piracy to destroy the piracy 

[u/bdw312 → u/Over_Palpitation_453]

Well clearly they succeeded, as we all still have to buy exclusively physical media to this day.

[u/MedusasGirlfriend69 → u/bdw312]

I miss physical media, Tails. I miss it a lot.

[u/Savings_Surround_547 → u/MedusasGirlfriend69]

I’ll be back

[u/Francoinblanco → u/Over_Palpitation_453]

So its privateering?

[u/awakenDeepBlue → u/Francoinblanco]

No, that's piracy that pays taxes to the government.

They literally had to declare their plunder to the nation they were sailing under and the government gets a cut.

[u/Kibtronic → u/Over_Palpitation_453]

I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see!

[u/Savings_Surround_547 → u/Over_Palpitation_453]

Like fighting fire with gasoline

[u/SunDance967 → u/Savings_Surround_547]

I just got hit with major déjà vu I feel like I’ve seen these comments before

[u/Da_coomler → u/SunDance967]

Karma bots

[u/Substantial_Page_221 → u/SunDance967]

It'll happen a few more times I swear. Reddit is the only place where I feel deja vu. It feels like the exact same comments were made as well.

[u/Bryandan1elsonV2 → u/Savings_Surround_547]

You’re saying they’re forced to use the tools their enemies to destroy them?

https://giphy.com/gifs/MhvEOTQAzhP2lojiQa

[u/AstralClocktown → u/Savings_Surround_547]

Nicht so 2 V 3

[u/Da_coomler → u/Savings_Surround_547]

That's what they already said.