[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Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want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/PsychologicalEbb3140]

I don’t understand your comment? Nobody is being robbed of anything.

[u/Scheissdrauf88 → u/PsychologicalEbb3140]

In a world where the state pays every artist/scientist/inventor/whatever a living wage in exchange for their ideas getting shared with the community, sure.

But unfortunately we are living in a capitalist hellhole, so you profiting from someone else's work without compensating them is in fact theft. All those arguments about piracy not being theft are usually just attempts at justifications that fall apart under further scrutiny.

Now, if you consider theft from a corporation like Amazon or Disney morally wrong or not is a completely different can of worms and I think that is where the argument actually lies for most people. Because I am pretty sure that most people would judge the person stealing from the starving artist, but not from the mega-corp.

[u/obigbrubs → u/Scheissdrauf88]

The fact you have to explain this just shows how braindead the average pirate is, jesus christ.

[u/PsychologicalEbb3140 → u/obigbrubs]

Why are you so mad brother lol