Genuinely curious about "wokeness" and it's appeal

[Don't kill me]

I'm a 39 year old heterosexual, white male and I had lived in China for 15 years before finally returning back to UK (due to covid).

It has taken me many months, but I am now fully caught-up with how Western society functions including what trended and what is currently trending.

So... does "wokeness" sell?
I don't have an agenda with this post, I am just genuinely interested in asking some questions and hearing your responses:

1) Do you go out of your way to search for game developers that recognise modern, political and social controversial themes and then purchase their games to help support them?

2) Do you play games as a form of escapism from modern, political and social controversial themes, or do you play games to help enforce your beliefs?

3) Do you support game developers that actively want to neglect a certain demographic from their sales? (i.e. a gender or an ethnicity.)

4) Do you think vampires should have x amount of genders/sexual preferences?

5) Would you refrain from purchasing a game if a particular gender pronoun or sexual orientation is not available upon character selection? (besides Male/Female, He/She, Straight/Gay)

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Thanks for your time if you choose to answer these questions. I would just love to see what people think.

[Radene]

(Imagine Brian Blessed voiceover)

I do not like this bait, bring me some other bait!

[You should be studying]

woke is just a way to appeal to the younger masses giving them the allusion they are changing the world, while supporting the "evil" big corporate scheme that they are against.

[saranacX]

*turns on the popcorn machine*

[Holografix]

bait.

[Blargo]

"Woke" is just a meme, as far as I'm aware.

Companies only care about money. Whatever persona they put on is only there to get you to consume more product.

[𝕎𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕫]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CHyil3GmVRo

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Wokeness was first started as a political correctness to which was done prior before the 20th century.

ex:
Like shell shocked turned to ptsd to batle fatigue.
some words like Native Americans instead of Indians since Indians were from India not America and more were coming to the USA like okay i get that part.

The main movement imo was the LGBT+ community who wanted to have more coddled language and phrases as well as marketing. Then boy oh boy did the teenagers and mostly white ones start pushing it super hard. Especially the liberal arts majors who winded up as teachers and educators. They shoved that ♥♥♥♥ so far down every kid's throats that it literally brain washed them.

At first it was a solo thing. Like only small groups here and there. Then the Corporations jumped in and it was all over. Ben and Jerry's and other outliers have been doing this ♥♥♥♥ for years prior. I'm talking about the big ones like McDonalds, Game developers/publishers, Coca Cola, basically any company that can be its own independent nation with all the $$$ they make.

Then the smaller businesses started joining in.


Truth be told i like some political correctness or rather not calling people things like R tard or the N word. Though it's a double edged sword if you name call people who don't agree with you on the same premises. Still the thing that is bad is quotas and wokeness agendas were created. So

instead of make X product sell X items and promote X
it's now
Promote X, make X product, sell X items if any.


Wokeness is at the core virtue signaling to get

[myrymyry]

1 - no
2 - it's entertainment and should be treated as such
3 - i myself difference content from it's creator(s)
4 - are you worried about Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines "sequel"? Vampires aren't real, they can be written into whatever author wants them to.
5 - no

companies care about profit. if it would hurt their income they wouldn't do it.

@edit: typo

[it's love]

Messaggio originale di Don't kill me:

I don't have an agenda with this post, I am just genuinely interested in asking some questions and hearing your responses:

do you think the people here are that dumb?

yes, the answer is mostly yes

[myrymyry]

Messaggio originale di Crazed Rabbit:

Messaggio originale di Don't kill me:

I don't have an agenda with this post, I am just genuinely interested in asking some questions and hearing your responses:

do you think the people here are that dumb?

yes, the answer is mostly yes

Even if he had it would mean and change nothing.

[Dracoco OwO]

No to most of that and i could not give a ♥♥♥♥ if Dracula was bisexual.

[MinionJoe]

CS:GO players have a fascination with getting other players to post "+rep" on their profile.

Same thing.

[Don't kill me]

Messaggio originale di Holografix:

bait.

Too old for that type of thing.
Although I do use some forums as a form of escapism to blow off some steam, this topic however is not one of them

[Rio]

Woke exists because people want something to complain about because they are bored. And they like looking good to their friends for being a more virtuous person.

[Castyles]

Messaggio originale di saranacX:

*turns on the popcorn machine*

*rubs both hands while waiting*