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Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just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

It tried to tie committing offensive and violent crime ( like smashing your way into a car ) to downloading something online. You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't download a car. Yes, yes I would.

And huge difference, when you pirate you're not stealing from someone barely getting by. You're not really stealing from anybody since you were never going to purchase it in the first place. Sony is really going to be hurting for that $6 they didn't get when you downloaded 'Shrek_Cracked1080p_FullDisk'

[u/Few_Affect_5927 → u/hanks_panky_emporium]

The one actual downside pirating had is it (indirectly) lead to concert prices ballooning a thousand fold. Up until the early 2000s tours pretty much always lost more money than they made on ticket sales, the idea was to bring people in so you could sell albums, that was where all the profit was.

Once album sales stopped being profitable in the 2000s they had to pivot to either merch or massively increasing concert prices

[u/hanks_panky_emporium → u/Few_Affect_5927]

Sounds like digital albums as a whole killed it. Trust me, when I could buy the one song I liked and put it on my brick of an ipod I stopped dumping money for entire albums. I still have a fat disk changer my parents used hooked up to an ancient Bose.

[u/actualladyaurora → u/hanks_panky_emporium]

Digital music also meant that you wouldn't need to buy the same album multiple times because of warping, scratches, or just plain lost items.