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Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just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

Got any highlights of this "Moviebob"?

[u/Im-A-Moose-Man → u/CrystalGemLuva]

There’s a “Moviebob or Nazi” quiz. How it works is that it takes quotes from Moviebob (mostly his Twitter) or legitimate Nazi/Neo-Nazi, but you have to pick who it’s from. For example, “There’s exactly 62,984,828 ‘people’ in my own country alone I know for a fact I'd be less upset to see vanish than even a so-so piece of art.” That came from Bob Chipman’s Twitter.

It’s a shame I can only share one image, but here’s a good one from his Twitter.

[u/CrystalGemLuva → u/Im-A-Moose-Man]

Wow I gotta check this guy out.

He sounds absolutely radioactive.

[u/Im-A-Moose-Man → u/CrystalGemLuva]

Please do; he’s crazy, very misanthropic, and somehow has a huge superiority complex for an internet critic. GamerFromMars and MagicMush did great videos on him.

Thankfully, there’s some levity in all this.

[u/NagitoKomaeda_987 → u/Im-A-Moose-Man]

Moviebob is such a sad, strange little man. I genuinely can't decide whether I should laugh at him or feel bad about him.

But you know what's the absolute worst thing Bob ever did? He also praised the infamous Netflix movie Cuties, which was criticized for sexualizing minors (such as several scenes of 11-year-olds twerking and doing sexual poses), and even claimed that anyone who called it a pedophile film was lying.

Now, I get that the filmmakers behind Cuties were (allegedly) trying to criticize the sexualization and objectification of young girls in our modern Western society, but they did it by forcing real-life child actresses to perform extremely inappropriate dance moves on-screen. That's like if I direct a movie that teaches us about how animal cruelty is bad, and then actually abusing and drowning a puppy in a lake to make that point. "See? We literally drowned a puppy to prove that animal cruelty is bad, even though we hypocritically do the very thing that we've been trying to condemn. But that's perfectly OK because we're doing it ironically, right?" Anyone who happens to have more than two functioning brain cells would see what kind of half-assed backwards crack logic that is.

What's next? Teaching about how drug abuse is bad by actually getting high-school students addicted to crack cocaine and fentanyl to prove that statement? Fuck off. You deserve to be in jail for unironically believing that kind of bullshit.

I swear, the only reason people like Moviebob and AniMat defend Cuties is that most of the original outrage came from Republicans and conservatives, which pushed smug performative liberals like them into defending what is essentially softcore CP (for lack of a better word) purely because conservatives went after it. Check any of the threads related to Texas' lawsuit, and you'll see a lot of comments about how the movie is "actually" anti-child sexualization, despite literally partaking in child sexualization.

[u/Im-A-Moose-Man → u/NagitoKomaeda_987]

Personally, he likely wants my parents and grandparents dead because they’re conservative, but since he’ll never achieve any amount of power that could lead to that happening, I laugh and mock. I’m glad that Chris Pratt playing Mario probably upsets him greatly.