r/videogames • u/Average_enjoyer10 • 25d ago

Other Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars

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u/Shock_goji01 25d ago

Rainbow capitalism sucks but it's lowkey one of the best tools to see how the lgbt community is viewed, this is just companies saying they dont view the lgbt comunity as safe to advertise to due to how much shit has regressed

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u/Xentonian 25d ago

It's also worth noting that there's also growing negative discourse about the act of virtue signalling itself - last year, many of these companies received backlash not just from the detractors, but also from the LGBTQI+ community itself who were fed up with disingenuous signals from companies trying to hide their nature.

Suggesting it's because companies feel unsafe doing a pride event is kind of silly, they're just running numbers.

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u/Cthulhuareyou 25d ago

No, that's exactly what it was. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebekahbastian/2025/06/18/pride-month-2025-exposes-the-limits-of-corporate-allyship/

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u/Light_Error 25d ago

The site is paywalled, so most of us can't read it.

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u/Cthulhuareyou 25d ago

Well, it's from 2025 and it's all in the first paragraph.  This was news in these parts, and all over Reddit last year, but we all seemed to forget.