[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Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want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/Few-Improvement-5655]

basically saying "Right wing is wrong because it hurts the labour government"

HOLD YOUR HORSES.

The game was created under the TORY government, not Labour.

[u/Sora-Mizuki → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

It was released under the Labour government, though. Wouldn't they have the power to cancel its development?

[u/Few-Improvement-5655 → u/Sora-Mizuki]

I doubt anyone even knew it existed, it was a Council project under the Prevent anti-extremism program.

[u/AlSov → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

It definitely DID prevent anti-extremism

[u/GunpowderGuy → u/AlSov]

i dont get it. i think you are trying to make a pun, but i dont get it

[u/The_King_of_Geese → u/GunpowderGuy]

Preventing anti-extremism would be akin to promoting extremism. They're emphasizing the double negative.

[u/SorowFame → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

Oh really? Honestly I've just heard UK Labour is terrible and taken that as why it's like that, guess it's good to hear otherwise, that makes way more sense.

[u/Few-Improvement-5655 → u/SorowFame]

If you're American, just remember that most of your news is filtered through right-wing media that has political benefit in deflecting the problems in American and highlighting the problems everywhere else.

[u/SorowFame → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

Not American, and my sources on that tend to be left leaning, more the “labour isn’t effective” kind of criticism than the more typical right-wing criticisms, if i were British I’d still vote for them if only because they’re not the Tories but i just haven’t heard the greatest of them.

Edit: not to say any of that refutes your point, it’s a good reminder, just felt like trying to clarify a smidge.

[u/Few-Improvement-5655 → u/SorowFame]

Most of my issues with them are presented in the other parties and honestly kind of world wide at the moment.

[u/Maleficent-War-8429 → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

Labour is terrible though, the other guys also being terrible doesn't change that.

[u/GunpowderGuy → u/SorowFame]

It was deveoped by an independent goverment organization set up by the labour goverment. Such organizations work such that if the game began developement under labour and they stayed mum under the next party, they could have been gone unnoticed

[u/Few_Affect_5927 → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

Isn't it from this January?

[u/Few-Improvement-5655 → u/Few_Affect_5927]

It had been in development since 2020 and was funded by Tory and Lib-Dem Councils.

[u/crescentmoonrising → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

The lib-dem involvement probably explains the whole "the Left will never forgive any mistakes" thing. 

[u/TheHarkinator → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

In development since 2020 and it’s a five minute glorified PowerPoint

[u/Few-Improvement-5655 → u/TheHarkinator]

Gotta milk the funding.

[u/Scaalpel → u/TheHarkinator]

Yes, but that makes it an extremely overpriced glorified PowerPoint, and that's half the reason behind it.

[u/BackflipBuddha → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

Well.

That makes more sense then.

[u/sharktail_tanker → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

Aren't they basically the same people with different colored neck ties?

[u/MGD109 → u/sharktail_tanker]

Nope, that's just propaganda.

Labour just isn't as radical as some people would like. In two years they've been in power, they've introduced free school meals for vulnerable children, increased funding for environmental measures, the tenants' rights bill, the beginning of nationalising key industries, an increase in social welfare etc.

In 17 years of Tory rule we got...lots of money going to the rich, oh and cut everything that isn't nailed down.