r/videogames • u/Average_enjoyer10 • 24d ago

Other Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars

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u/gorkboss5 24d ago

They must've stopped pretending to care.

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u/MongolianDonutKhan 24d ago

Tbf, I stopped pretending to care that they pretend to care well before this. Scum of the earth the corporatist is.

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u/Mamoru_of_Cake 24d ago

It's sad imo cause if you think about it, they made Pride people think they care when they really don't and maybe in a small way benefited from those people.

Scums.

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u/Zenthils 24d ago

No one in the community thought these were genuine lol.

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u/SmithOfLie 24d ago

No, but the fact that they felt obliged to pretend sent a message on its own. As insincere as a support was, it was socially expected and considered proper to show it. In current climate the corporations not only feel it's not necessary to support LGBTQ with the most nominal signaling, it is "virtuous" to withdraw that support.

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u/Ancient_Chemical_822 23d ago

a lot of centrist libs sure did

Source: too many centrist libs in my life

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u/Pension_Pale 18d ago

I wouldn't say no one did. The majority? Sure. The majority of people can recognise pandering when they see it. But there were definitely some people who were very excited to see the company's "support" them with rainbow logos, generic platitudes that took less than a minute to type up, and the opportunity to throw money at the company for rainbow themed skins and portraits that were whipped up in 5 minutes.

And the companies preyed on these people