Can Someone Explain the Meme Reviews?

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

So, people keep making this really unfunny reference to the LGBT community in reviews of this game - making up the majority of ones I can find - can someone explain the joke to me?

They don't make sense on their own, and I'm struggling to understand a context in which this is going to be funny at all. Did some random Youtuber make a joke and so people are just jumping on it because of that, even if it isn't funny and leads to spam reviews?

Or is there some deeper context I'm missing?

I personally had trouble finding proper reviews of this game on Steam as a result of these sorts of reviews, and when I asked for people to clarify in the comments of said reviews the only responses were people basically continuing the joke instead.

Maybe I'm just getting too old to understand modern humor, lol.

[Defective Soul]

Custom weapons colors, it sorta lo-level joke, same as "add sex" or "pinos prime" and so

[JayEnDee]

Maybe you are.

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引用自 Defective Soul：

Custom weapons colors, it sorta lo-level joke, same as "add sex" or "pinos prime" and so

I mean, customization isn't exactly that rare of a thing in games, so I don't get it.

[bagel]

you should get some gay sex /:

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引用自 Thanks a lot, mama!：

Sex jokes have never been funny and never will be

I do think they can be funny, but it depends on context.

But this doesn't seem funny to me at all. Like - "haha gay sex" isn't really a joke to anyone who is older than the age of 12, and while I know many people of that age play these kinds of games (I was playing them myself when I was that young), it's still weird to see it overwhelm reviews and such to the point of drowning out legitimate reviews.

So I figured there must be a cause for the meme, if someone could explain it.

[UNBREAKABLE]

I was 12 years old at one point too but "add sex to the game" is certainly something nobody said back then... Can't tell if it's just deprived teenagers or kids who literally grew up inside the internet and think it's funny they know what sex is.

Either way if you try to actually discuss the game to those people the answers are usually ignorant because they probably don't even play it or have a vision where only what they want matters.

Doom unfortunately has a similar issue where everyone knows the memes but knows literally nothing about the games themsleves which kind of became a problem when Eternal asked players to use their brain.

[Morphic]

引用自 UNBREAKABLE：

I was 12 years old at one point too but "add sex to the game" is certainly something nobody said back then... Can't tell if it's just deprived teenagers or kids who literally grew up inside the internet and think it's funny they know what sex is.

Probably both since that particular meme stems from a secret level character named Mirage. So, of course people have to meme the hell out a "waifu!" in the game. Which kinda ticks me off since the whole philosophical debate that is had in the level was great and the takeaway should have been uplifting to people etc.

So, yeah.... 'course the body pillow merchandise doesn't help anything lol.

[Longathan Johnathan]

I personally think it's supposed to parody feature requests

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引用自 Chrommatic：

I personally think it's supposed to parody feature requests

I see. That would make some sense, but that doesn't explain why it's so common for this game rather than for other games.

I remember back when there was controversy over the "Hot Coffee" scandal for Grand Theft Auto games back around 2004 or 2005. Which all in all was hidden content not even available to players really - but still lead to legislative action and outroar.

So seeing people make joke "add sex" requests to stuff nowadays just seems really quaint.

Like, we're on Steam - it isn't like games with sex are hard to find.

[trash creature]

sounds like you havent met John V1 Ultakill The 1st

[trash creature]

+ultra+kill+v+gay sex+gabey poo+John V1 Ultakill The 1st

[Arakus]

For the LGBT stuff several of the devs are LGBT (including the lead dev, Hakita, who is bi) and the official Twitter account is pretty vocally supportive of the community, frequently retweeting LGBT fanartists and LGBT memes about the game's characters.

There was also a big uptick in those memes after the custom weapon colours were added because the tweet announcing that feature showed colour schemes based on pride flags (a trans revolver, bi shotgun and pan sawblade launcher iirc), the trans revolver in particular seems to have become rlly popular with a lot of fanart and vids using it.

EDIT: tweet I was referring to, I remembered right https://twitter.com/ULTRAKILLGame/status/1533127346328203264

[Sein]

引用自 Arakus：

For the LGBT stuff several of the devs are LGBT (including the lead dev, Hakita, who is bi) and the official Twitter account is pretty vocally supportive of the community, frequently retweeting LGBT fanartists and LGBT memes about the game's characters.

There was also a big uptick in those memes after the custom weapon colours were added because the tweet announcing that feature showed colour schemes based on pride flags (a trans revolver, bi shotgun and pan sawblade launcher iirc), the trans revolver in particular seems to have become rlly popular with a lot of fanart and vids using it.

EDIT: tweet I was referring to, I remembered right https://twitter.com/ULTRAKILLGame/status/1533127346328203264

wait hakita is bi? nice

[Cheese Person]

♥♥♥♥ it we ball

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

引用自 Arakus：

For the LGBT stuff several of the devs are LGBT (including the lead dev, Hakita, who is bi) and the official Twitter account is pretty vocally supportive of the community, frequently retweeting LGBT fanartists and LGBT memes about the game's characters.

There was also a big uptick in those memes after the custom weapon colours were added because the tweet announcing that feature showed colour schemes based on pride flags (a trans revolver, bi shotgun and pan sawblade launcher iirc), the trans revolver in particular seems to have become rlly popular with a lot of fanart and vids using it.

EDIT: tweet I was referring to, I remembered right https://twitter.com/ULTRAKILLGame/status/1533127346328203264

I see. I guess if developers are retweeting memes and such then it makes sense that those memes would then spread to a huge percentage of reviews.

Personally I have absolutely zero interest in the personal sexual interests (or personal gender identity) of the developers of literally any video game ever made, but more power to them.