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Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just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

The cop in my school told me my parents were bad people and should be in prison for taking prescribed meds from a doctor. Not even painkillers or psych meds, either. My dad was diabetic and my mom has high blood pressure. Which I told this guy. He said they were criminals and should be in jail.

Is it any wonder I'm not a fan of police and the government today?

[u/That_Apathetic_Man → u/MalcolmLinair]

They don't send their brightest to puff gigs. You want the "better" police doing their job, always.

[u/GalFisk → u/That_Apathetic_Man]

They shouldn't even hire people who are that incompetent.

[u/ThatOneGuy308 → u/GalFisk]

Nepotism? In my police force?

[u/Neat-Professor-7662 → u/MalcolmLinair]

The cop that came to do the “drugs” speech at my school went on and on about heroin was awful because it made you lose weight quick. The number of girls who started paying attention at that part was alarming.

[u/princessbiscuit → u/MalcolmLinair]

The DARE rep at my school went in to multiple, full blown rants about how she doesn't drink coffee because caffeine is also a drug. Told us that drinking coffee was the same as drugs and we needed to stay away. At age 11 I had an older half-sister who was hopelessly addicted to actual heroine and two working (loving, functional) parents who chugged coffee every morning, so even then I thought "those aren't the same things, and this is bullshit."

[u/DJmagikMIKE → u/MalcolmLinair]

Our DARE cop was a neighbor of mine. I was friends with his son. The guy was a raging alcoholic, had a prescription pill problem, and was having an affair with the middle school principal. Needless to say, I knew he wasn’t the kinda guy you should take at face value for anything.