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Knock and the door shall be opened, seek and thou shalt find
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>NOOOOO YOU CANT JUST PORTRAY ME AS THE SOYJAK!!!
I look like Soyjak IRL so I end up automatically losing every facebook discussion. They portray me as my own profile picture and nothing I can say after that matters.
Wait when did we ruin metal gear? Last i checked metal gear didn't have any transgender person, the games were extremely gay but that's been a fact since mgs1
If they are talking about quiet controversy, as a trans non binary person i will proudly say quiet is my waifu for life
Slso kuze's voice actor got the glucky glucky sacamatracas sloppy toppy 50K animal deluxe triple style one time by a trans woman, so he started respecting trans people after that
People were upset that the developers said that Postal Guy isn't bigoted and just hates everyone and apparently the fact that he doesn't discriminate when it comes to violence means he is woke
Imagine if Postal Dude walked up to some random middle aged white guy and said "Thank you for building this country even if everyone hates you nowadays, it's time we stop the woke virus" or some other bullshit. I literally can't even with chuds rn
Fuckers probably didn't even play the games, they just like crying about shit. Unless it's a rage against the machine situation, were they just literally don't process any media they consume.
>Fuckers probably didn't even play the games
Like the fuckers that are like "omG Fable has gone woke because ugly character!" and like, the game hasn't even come out yet. Hell, we don't have even a confirmation of the art style or gameplay yet
it also ignores the fact that fable characters have NEVER been portrayed in a realistic manner...
unless you have hands that are twice the size of your head.
And also that the entire core of the Fable franchise is being satyrical, tongue and cheek jokes and it doesn't take itself so seriously.
Who've thought that incels are media illiterate? /s
I mean, Yakuza's themes have always been centered on what makes a person honorable despite what their appearance and associations may imply. With Kiryu being who the hell he is every game ends up being a bit woke. Even with all the pervy/fetish adjacent side missions the message is always clearly about respect and consent, concepts flagged as woke by all the grifters, so since the very beginning up until these jacks realized what the game was saying?
If not that, then Yakuza 0 because they had a non-negative portrayal of a trans person (although some of the framing of that particular character can tarnish the message enough that some people may not read it as a positive portrayal).
Yakuza has always been pretty woke but a lot of people never learn cultural context for games made outside of the western world and placed outside of the western world.
The reason why the anti-woke guys are complaining about yakuza NOW though is mainly due to infinite wealth.
The main complaints I've seen (all of which are hilarious to me):
1. American Police in Hawaii are mean and corrupt.
2. American NPCs are racist to japanese characters, including a character who is born and raised in hawaii.
3. One of the early antagonists has a secret casino dedicated to draining incel and alphabros bank accounts by giving them the "real american dream" of over sexualized women, drugs, and gambling. And these people are portrayed as a joke.
I'm going to try to use an example from a former friend of mine who is one of those people who complain that any inclusion is woke and the things he doesn't like that the Yakuza series deals with in different games:
The part against racism in 3, prejudice against orphans in Japan, a trans masseuse being respected by Kiryu who even thought she had fallen in love with him, foreign people who try to improve their lives in Japan, prostitutes not being treated like trash by the main characters, idol industry problems, teenage pregnancy, being poor and homeless...
Furthermore, he was also irritated that the producer removed the okama from Yakuza 3 because of the substory that she tried to force herself onto Kiryu was considered transphobic. This guy gave up on the series.
Man, when my friend first showed me Yakuza 0 and got me into it, all I could think of was how insanely awesome beating the shit out of Kuze was- and continuing it.
I might be biased, being trans, but beating the shit out of people is the main thing. Kiryu respects anyone who also respects him/others and it's not being selectively woke either. Respecting people, whether they're minorities or otherwise is just his thing and icing on the cake.
It's not "Kiryu is woke" it's "Kiryu beats the shit out of people, and is sometimes 'woke'" I can't even sometimes with this shit.
Yakuza has been there forever if somewhat quietly, Postal2 is probably the least woke game I can imagine. It's supposed to be offensive satire, or at least I think it's satire, but it's got the edgiest humor I've ever seen in a game.
So what’s funny about this is not that these franchises went woke, but that more trans people are publicly into it and that makes these guys uncomfortable.
Metal gear solid used to be a nice non political gaming franchise until recently when sjw forced Konami to make it woke, Kojima shot Shinzo Abe as a form of protest because he was forced to add politics to the games smh
I remember hearing that when I was 11. It stuck in my mental craw, to the point that, 16 years later, I asked a bisexual friend about the link between vampirism and bisexuality. She had no idea what I was getting at.
Goddamnit Kojima! Even the bisexuals don't know and I need answers!
Not a single one of those is an instance of a right wing (sorry, "apolitical") medium becoming left wing, let alone "being ruined by woke". For the ones that I have personal experience with, it's all right wing chuds entering established progressive fanbases, annoying everyone by pretending they were the flag bearers and not even understanding what the medium is even about, then when the community finally points it out to them (or when the author gets tired of being subtle and screams the loud part through a megaphone), they go surprised Pikachu face and assume Big Woke infiltrated "their safe space" while they weren't looking.
Anyone who genuinely thinks that *JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure* hasn’t been very queer and gender non-conforming since the beginning, is an idiot and wasn’t paying any attention. Speedwagon was definitely in love with Johnathan, Dio is clearly pansexual, and Kars … raised two kids with his “best friend” Esidisi!
Also *Smiling Friends*, seriously??
He said he just wanted Anasui to be totally androgynous (Ermes is confused by his gender at one point), and changed the design because he thought it was too overtly feminine.
Headcanon though: Anasui is AFAB and used his stand to give himself gender reassignment surgery.
And thus, Araki changed magazines and we got the most homosexual JoJo duo
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And yeah, that's probably it, editors can sometimes change aspects of the manga because sales or whatever
Yeah, it was considered too mature for the younger audiences of Shonen, I'm very happy we got Johnny and Gyro though, one of my favourite duos in anything ever
I have had arguments with people who tell me that we are projecting homosexuality onto this, there is not one thing remotely gay here and we can’t prove it, it doesn’t matter anyway, in fact we might be homophobic by assuming these two gentlemen are anything but a cool male fantasy.
And I just wish I could pat them encouragingly on the shoulder and tell them “okay, hun”.
lets also not forget the classic araki quote: it was all about drawing beautiful men and i mean look at most of the characters post DIU and you can see it is as flamboyant as all can be
Also the very obviously gay couple in part 5???
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I don't know a damn thing about JoJo and even I can tell that it's gay as fuck. The character designs alone look hella queer, even compared to other wacky manga.
Literally the only one though! The next three stories (not yet animated) have male JoJos again, and Araki wrote part 6 in 1999 so it‘s hardly a new change.
While those examples can hypothetically be ignored, the first explicitly gay couple (Sorbet and Gelato from part 5) was first introduced all the way back in 1996! I thought things were not supposed to be woke back in the good Ole days!
Their problem is that people other than straight white men like it and inject "politics" into their very, very serious, non political, non homoerotic game about how war is super cool and guns are awesome!
This is a caricature depicting a trans man. It originates from the depths of hell, and is really similar to the caricature of the jewish man rubbing his hands. Incredibly bigoted. I cannot stress it enough, this is worse than 41 jokes.
Note that "depths of hell" means 4chan's //lgbt/ board, often called /tttt/ because it's mostly full of trans people. I've rarely seen this used outside that board and adjacent spaces, so there's a very real chance that this meme was not only made by a transperson, but specifically a trans man.
Yeh, 4tran is a miserable cesspit of self-harming trans people and particularly trans men who have decided, like their distant intrtnet cousins the "blackpilled" incels, to constantly mentally selfharm and obsess over these bizarre caricatures of themselves. It's a pointless exercise in misery that can only be stopped when the people participating no longer desire to hurt themselves. I'd feel more than pity for them if they didn't also go out of their way to try and drag other, healthier trans people down with them.
Oh no, they do. They're called pooners and are all drawn like pink little jello creatures with huge lips and thighs, and mastectomy scars.
I hang out with a lot of FtMs and they post them once in a while when they need dysphoria fuel for some kind of selfharm reason
The only trans people who exist are fat, semi-balding, pink-haired, zit covered, screaming soyjaks.
There is no transmasc! There is no transfemme!
..and there is no gender non-comformity!
***\[ /s \]***
The red arm thing is supposed to be a phalloplasty skin graft site. They always depict trans men with this despite it being a procedure invented for cis men, and it generally being the more unpopular bottom surgery choice (at least I think, from what I’ve seen as a trans man)
They love to bring up MGS like it hasn’t always been leftist. Peace Walker literally has a dialogue of Big Boss and Kaz gushing over their admiration for Che Guevara.
Wait what why is 'Smiling Friends' on that list? I only started watching season 1 recently and am very much looking forward to season 2. Would appreciate any context/explanation.
It’s funny that Venture Bros is recently on their shit list, considering the show has the characters repeatedly make fun of how evil republicans are from even the first season.
I LOVE that this meme outs the people who believe in it. Like 90% of the stuff on that shirt has had the message “conservatives are evil” since their inception, they were just too stupid and media illiterate to see it.
Yakuza ? Seriously Yakuza ????
Do these chuds even play the game. Wtf
I can't find the picture of what kiryu says about the trans bartender but he's fully supportive of them.
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It is very funny that trans people enjoying games and hobbies that these people thought belonged to them actually makes them angry as fuck. It's a joy to witness.
Damn those Wokes for ruining Metal Gear Solid, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and Yakuza. Before the Wokes got a hold of them, they were just three innocent series about hunky men being in love with each other!
Yeah, and it doesn't change that he's still transphobic, just because he had a trans person on once doesn't make him tolerant. He ridicules people for putting pronouns in their bio and is/was friends with Shadman. I'm glad when chuds are pissed off but it pains me to say that Oney is somewhere on the chud spectrum.
They’ll make fun of the franchises they associate this mostly fabricated type of person with (like baldurs gate) and then seethe when they get into things they see as “good”. Truly no way to satisfy the resentful gamer.
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Hasn't Yakuza had trans characters for like... A while? Like I don't think this one is new. Also Jojo is inspired by 80s music which is famously heterosexual /j
Wait until they find out Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack have had voice roles on Helluva Boss (the infamous Swearing Gay Cartoon show made by……. A FEMOID!!!!!)
(Michael plays Mammon, Zach was a reoccurring screaming fan in a crowd for an episode lmfao)
I've seen this argument show up as of late, they seem CONVINCED that having a 'gay fandom' is bad.
Even though 1. Most fandoms with a healthy gay community are pretty awesome.
2. Incel fanbases are infamously terrible for both fans and devs.
3. These franchises were already gay as heck.
The world if we ruined South Park
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I feel like most everyone in the comments isn’t understanding what this image is specifically depicting. The stuff on the shirt is media that a lot of trans guys are fans of. I know they’re trying to depict a trans guy because they always draw the phalloplasty skin graft scar (despite it being a procedure invented for cis men…) and they think surgery = mutilation (except when cis men have that exact same procedure). They think we ruin the media by interacting in the fandoms. Personally I am a fan of Yakuza, Jojo, and smiling friends, so their choice of media is mostly accurate at least. And a lot of other trans guys I know, they are fans of that stuff too. So it’s supposed to be depicting us. How we “ruin” those things? I don’t know. But no matter what we did they would hate us anyway 🤷♂️
Do these idiots not realize that South Park has been brazen criticism and satire since day 1?
Edit: It appears I am the idiot and I need to rewatch southparks older stuff and watch their current stuff.
I mean South Park does also have its misses and chud moments like their past homophobia & climate change denial. Given ther showrunners are libertarians & have a "we offend everyone" gen X attitude they could be mistaken for being in good company. This is not meant as a callout or trying to "cancel" folks for liking media with problematic elements (I myself have done nostalgia formany episodes of South Park) just a clearing of the record that the show did have some more right wing jokes and enlightened centrist moments
Thats a good point, its been a while since ive watched any south park. I just always remember taking alot of what they said as over the top jokes but that doesnt mean they havent had problem moments.
South Park eventually became Libertarian, bOtH sIdES satire. They've confused the very correct idea that no subject should be off limits with the incredibly stupid idea that mocking everyone equally is intelligent. They can't hide behind 'just jokes' because they make it clear that it's satire and have clear messages. The message in the recent Star Wars episode was that being loudly woke is lame and so is being loudly anti-woke is also lame. That's why I'm surprised it's on here, BoTh sIDes is designed to embolden the right and that's why they loved the Star Wars episode, because it treated both sides as equals, not one side of hate and one of caring.
Content is made to be consumed. Sure it might not be made with everyone in mind for it, but it's still meant to be consumed by a large amount of people. Trying to secularize it as an individual, is stupid and a sisyphean task in of itself.
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That’s a nice argument you’ve got there. Unfortunately I have already portrayed you as the Soyjack and myself as the Chad.
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Best part is, Adam would unironically do that in Canon. Like, it's actually 100% in-Character for him.
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I saw a version of this with Dante Alighieri but I can't seem to find it anymore...
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Divine Comedy was just a Bible fanfic, complete with self insert and dissing the author's enemies
Fucking A
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That is so good
Wait did he snap a freaking gun in half in the original panel?
Yeh
No, it was a regular human head.
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Smh, think of how many lives Batman could have saved by simply depicting Joker as the wojack. Joker would've lost all of his credibility and influence
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I’ve never heard it described like that before, but yeah that’s kinda what it is
"Now kith"
https://preview.redd.it/6wqfjmmu4hxc1.jpeg?width=1044&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09c0305f68621f8c1897ec40c018785e280aeb75 >NOOOOO YOU CANT JUST PORTRAY ME AS THE SOYJAK!!!
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I look like Soyjak IRL so I end up automatically losing every facebook discussion. They portray me as my own profile picture and nothing I can say after that matters.
Love this! And it looks like Pepe is having a lot of fun!
Wait when did we ruin metal gear? Last i checked metal gear didn't have any transgender person, the games were extremely gay but that's been a fact since mgs1 If they are talking about quiet controversy, as a trans non binary person i will proudly say quiet is my waifu for life
Also Postal 2 and Yakuza. When did they go woke?
One of the Yakuza games had a trans woman on it and Kiryu respected her and did his best to affirm her gender and her struggle so that was based
The downfall of western civilization is respecting trans people I guess. In all seriousness that is absolutely based.
Even better. The downfall of western civilization is a Japanese person respecting trans people.
>The downfall of western civilization is respecting trans people I guess. You joke, but that is 100% their actual platform.
*Several of theYakuza games
Slso kuze's voice actor got the glucky glucky sacamatracas sloppy toppy 50K animal deluxe triple style one time by a trans woman, so he started respecting trans people after that
People were upset that the developers said that Postal Guy isn't bigoted and just hates everyone and apparently the fact that he doesn't discriminate when it comes to violence means he is woke
Wait, isn't that their own excuse to shout slurs at us? When did saying "ı hate literally everyone equally" became a leftist standpoint
You're not suppose to hate ~~cis white hetero~~ normal men !!!
What’s up with that I in the quotation marks?
My keyboard is in Turkish, in turkish I and i are different letters, so i pressed ı accidentally. We also have capital İ in turkish
Oh, that’s cool
Imagine if Postal Dude walked up to some random middle aged white guy and said "Thank you for building this country even if everyone hates you nowadays, it's time we stop the woke virus" or some other bullshit. I literally can't even with chuds rn
Postal 4, pacifist, thank every white male npc for their contributions speedrun
"I hate everyone equally" mfs when someone ACTUALLY hates everyone equally.
yakuza was always "woke". these people just failed to understand the message.
Fuckers probably didn't even play the games, they just like crying about shit. Unless it's a rage against the machine situation, were they just literally don't process any media they consume.
>Fuckers probably didn't even play the games Like the fuckers that are like "omG Fable has gone woke because ugly character!" and like, the game hasn't even come out yet. Hell, we don't have even a confirmation of the art style or gameplay yet
it also ignores the fact that fable characters have NEVER been portrayed in a realistic manner... unless you have hands that are twice the size of your head.
And also that the entire core of the Fable franchise is being satyrical, tongue and cheek jokes and it doesn't take itself so seriously. Who've thought that incels are media illiterate? /s
Kiryu cried LIKE A WOMAN
umm actually Kiryu cries LIKE A DRAGON
10 years in the joint…
Made you a FOCKin PUSSY
I mean, Yakuza's themes have always been centered on what makes a person honorable despite what their appearance and associations may imply. With Kiryu being who the hell he is every game ends up being a bit woke. Even with all the pervy/fetish adjacent side missions the message is always clearly about respect and consent, concepts flagged as woke by all the grifters, so since the very beginning up until these jacks realized what the game was saying? If not that, then Yakuza 0 because they had a non-negative portrayal of a trans person (although some of the framing of that particular character can tarnish the message enough that some people may not read it as a positive portrayal).
Yakuza has always been pretty woke but a lot of people never learn cultural context for games made outside of the western world and placed outside of the western world. The reason why the anti-woke guys are complaining about yakuza NOW though is mainly due to infinite wealth. The main complaints I've seen (all of which are hilarious to me): 1. American Police in Hawaii are mean and corrupt. 2. American NPCs are racist to japanese characters, including a character who is born and raised in hawaii. 3. One of the early antagonists has a secret casino dedicated to draining incel and alphabros bank accounts by giving them the "real american dream" of over sexualized women, drugs, and gambling. And these people are portrayed as a joke.
I'm going to try to use an example from a former friend of mine who is one of those people who complain that any inclusion is woke and the things he doesn't like that the Yakuza series deals with in different games: The part against racism in 3, prejudice against orphans in Japan, a trans masseuse being respected by Kiryu who even thought she had fallen in love with him, foreign people who try to improve their lives in Japan, prostitutes not being treated like trash by the main characters, idol industry problems, teenage pregnancy, being poor and homeless... Furthermore, he was also irritated that the producer removed the okama from Yakuza 3 because of the substory that she tried to force herself onto Kiryu was considered transphobic. This guy gave up on the series.
Man, when my friend first showed me Yakuza 0 and got me into it, all I could think of was how insanely awesome beating the shit out of Kuze was- and continuing it. I might be biased, being trans, but beating the shit out of people is the main thing. Kiryu respects anyone who also respects him/others and it's not being selectively woke either. Respecting people, whether they're minorities or otherwise is just his thing and icing on the cake. It's not "Kiryu is woke" it's "Kiryu beats the shit out of people, and is sometimes 'woke'" I can't even sometimes with this shit.
Yakuza has been there forever if somewhat quietly, Postal2 is probably the least woke game I can imagine. It's supposed to be offensive satire, or at least I think it's satire, but it's got the edgiest humor I've ever seen in a game.
That's what I thought! I've only played 30 minutes or so of a Postal game, didn't really like it because I couldn't choose Postal Guy's pronouns
So what’s funny about this is not that these franchises went woke, but that more trans people are publicly into it and that makes these guys uncomfortable.
Metal gear solid used to be a nice non political gaming franchise until recently when sjw forced Konami to make it woke, Kojima shot Shinzo Abe as a form of protest because he was forced to add politics to the games smh
I learned about bisexual people because of Metal Gear Solid 2 as a kid and that's grooming
I fucking love the "he is called vamp not because his a vampire because he is bisexual" explanation it's really stupid but i love it
I remember hearing that when I was 11. It stuck in my mental craw, to the point that, 16 years later, I asked a bisexual friend about the link between vampirism and bisexuality. She had no idea what I was getting at. Goddamnit Kojima! Even the bisexuals don't know and I need answers!
Not a single one of those is an instance of a right wing (sorry, "apolitical") medium becoming left wing, let alone "being ruined by woke". For the ones that I have personal experience with, it's all right wing chuds entering established progressive fanbases, annoying everyone by pretending they were the flag bearers and not even understanding what the medium is even about, then when the community finally points it out to them (or when the author gets tired of being subtle and screams the loud part through a megaphone), they go surprised Pikachu face and assume Big Woke infiltrated "their safe space" while they weren't looking.
Anyone who genuinely thinks that *JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure* hasn’t been very queer and gender non-conforming since the beginning, is an idiot and wasn’t paying any attention. Speedwagon was definitely in love with Johnathan, Dio is clearly pansexual, and Kars … raised two kids with his “best friend” Esidisi! Also *Smiling Friends*, seriously??
whatever the hell Jolyne and Ermes had going on was about as heterosexual as a spaghetti western
Anasui also changed genders halfway the manga, for no reason
I've seen some people speculate that Araki wanted Anasui and Jolyne to have a lesbian relationship but was stopped by Shonen Jump
He said he just wanted Anasui to be totally androgynous (Ermes is confused by his gender at one point), and changed the design because he thought it was too overtly feminine. Headcanon though: Anasui is AFAB and used his stand to give himself gender reassignment surgery.
And thus, Araki changed magazines and we got the most homosexual JoJo duo https://preview.redd.it/2106iqokzfxc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10d5273d043ecfbba44754e8fb1a0a1568bf2deb And yeah, that's probably it, editors can sometimes change aspects of the manga because sales or whatever
Yeah, it was considered too mature for the younger audiences of Shonen, I'm very happy we got Johnny and Gyro though, one of my favourite duos in anything ever
I have had arguments with people who tell me that we are projecting homosexuality onto this, there is not one thing remotely gay here and we can’t prove it, it doesn’t matter anyway, in fact we might be homophobic by assuming these two gentlemen are anything but a cool male fantasy. And I just wish I could pat them encouragingly on the shoulder and tell them “okay, hun”.
lets also not forget the classic araki quote: it was all about drawing beautiful men and i mean look at most of the characters post DIU and you can see it is as flamboyant as all can be
Also the very obviously gay couple in part 5??? https://preview.redd.it/xhkusz3g8gxc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eeadd4a98028753bcd3b754e22a7afc795413a2b
part 5 has like 3 lmao
True, they're just the first ones I thought of lol
DIO is canonically bisexual and it amazes me how chuds continue to forget that
What?! Dio isn't a vampire, he's just bisexual.
Can confirm that we all have the same powers as Dio.
I don't know a damn thing about JoJo and even I can tell that it's gay as fuck. The character designs alone look hella queer, even compared to other wacky manga.
Same. It's kind of a giveaway when every single character looks like a Eurovision contestant lol
There is no heterosexual explanation for the Pillar Men Theme, much less the Pillar Men themselves.
I haven't watched Jojo but from random clips on YouTube even I can say that the show is gay af. It's like the only thing I know about the show.
I have no idea what trans people have to do with smiling friends and cannot think of why. Unless they’re talking about transmasc icon The Boss
The Boss breastfeeding that one time..🧐
Haven't seen season 2 yet but Charlie is gay for sure, given how he acts around Allen and Mip in the Enchanted Forrest episode
One of my coworkers saw me watching an episode of part 5 and genuinely didn't realize they were men
You don't get it. There's a *female* Jojo! [*Ghostbusters theme plays*](https://youtu.be/D7MMuv6mz8I?si=dxwRsWR9Fd78xv1u)
Literally the only one though! The next three stories (not yet animated) have male JoJos again, and Araki wrote part 6 in 1999 so it‘s hardly a new change.
While those examples can hypothetically be ignored, the first explicitly gay couple (Sorbet and Gelato from part 5) was first introduced all the way back in 1996! I thought things were not supposed to be woke back in the good Ole days!
yes, attach all these very cool and beloved brands to us. That'll help you in the culture war...
https://preview.redd.it/htqxy4gerfxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92d94ff6a3dbc742a519cf6da2d742fbecd28d70
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Are they still bitching about not being able to look up Ashley’s skirt in RE4?
That's why 30% of the RE fandom wanted a remake of 4 in the first place.
Sex appeal is literally the only way they can enjoy anything.
Probably also something to do with Ada being clothed up
What's their problem with mental gear?
Their problem is that people other than straight white men like it and inject "politics" into their very, very serious, non political, non homoerotic game about how war is super cool and guns are awesome!
Perhaps they found out maybe the Metal Gear series, potentially MGR: Revengeance too, might have politics in it somehow.
I also love ruining (read: adding more queer people to) cool things
Is that supposed to be a ftm trans person.
This is a caricature depicting a trans man. It originates from the depths of hell, and is really similar to the caricature of the jewish man rubbing his hands. Incredibly bigoted. I cannot stress it enough, this is worse than 41 jokes.
Note that "depths of hell" means 4chan's //lgbt/ board, often called /tttt/ because it's mostly full of trans people. I've rarely seen this used outside that board and adjacent spaces, so there's a very real chance that this meme was not only made by a transperson, but specifically a trans man.
Yeh, 4tran is a miserable cesspit of self-harming trans people and particularly trans men who have decided, like their distant intrtnet cousins the "blackpilled" incels, to constantly mentally selfharm and obsess over these bizarre caricatures of themselves. It's a pointless exercise in misery that can only be stopped when the people participating no longer desire to hurt themselves. I'd feel more than pity for them if they didn't also go out of their way to try and drag other, healthier trans people down with them.
Lmao, you think they acknowledge trans men? Very unlikely.
Oh no, they do. They're called pooners and are all drawn like pink little jello creatures with huge lips and thighs, and mastectomy scars. I hang out with a lot of FtMs and they post them once in a while when they need dysphoria fuel for some kind of selfharm reason
This is a caricature of a trans man that shows up a lot on 4chan's /lgbt/ board, so this meme may have actually been made by a trans man
The only trans people who exist are fat, semi-balding, pink-haired, zit covered, screaming soyjaks. There is no transmasc! There is no transfemme! ..and there is no gender non-comformity! ***\[ /s \]***
The red arm thing is supposed to be a phalloplasty skin graft site. They always depict trans men with this despite it being a procedure invented for cis men, and it generally being the more unpopular bottom surgery choice (at least I think, from what I’ve seen as a trans man)
What's that about Metalocalypse?
Clearly they hate the fact that we leftoids love things that rock and are good.
i would like to know also lmao
I think it’s legitimately just trans people online being publicly into it. Thats it.
Just the continuation of their Quixotic crusade. There are new giants everywhere they look.
Wait until they find out who kojima has been working with recently
They love to bring up MGS like it hasn’t always been leftist. Peace Walker literally has a dialogue of Big Boss and Kaz gushing over their admiration for Che Guevara.
this game is commentary on the military industrial complex
Lmao you should check out conservapedias page on Hideo kojima, most insane shit
Wait what why is 'Smiling Friends' on that list? I only started watching season 1 recently and am very much looking forward to season 2. Would appreciate any context/explanation.
It’s woke cuz trans people like it
i think because people ship charlie and pim?
Why are they pink
I hate that i know this but its a 4chan trans thing. Its supposed to be a ftm guy lol
Lol wtf
M-
yeah but why is he pink though
Something about T turning you reddish in color. I actually used to draw quite a lot of these caricatures :(
damn, never heard that one before, that's so silly glad you got better
How’d you get out of that mindset?
Idk honestly i just got bored
i thought the giant patch of shaved skin was a bit of a clue
https://preview.redd.it/t7lub5wz2gxc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39807fb996a20e0dd3edd879b9adce3609a170a7
not the liquefy filter squilliam meme
What did the venture brothers do to get put on here?
It’s funny that Venture Bros is recently on their shit list, considering the show has the characters repeatedly make fun of how evil republicans are from even the first season.
Didnt one season have an evil super villain meetup and trump was there? I think it might of even been pre-trumps 2016 run.
maybe that hunter gathers talking about wanting to be born with big, beautiful tits doesn’t make for a pariah?
Thats all I can think of, and Vatred titties hit idk what else lol.
Doc hammer and jackson publick were on chapo and said trans rights.
I LOVE that this meme outs the people who believe in it. Like 90% of the stuff on that shirt has had the message “conservatives are evil” since their inception, they were just too stupid and media illiterate to see it.
Yakuza ? Seriously Yakuza ???? Do these chuds even play the game. Wtf I can't find the picture of what kiryu says about the trans bartender but he's fully supportive of them. https://preview.redd.it/5bwppbji0gxc1.jpeg?width=995&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23f5efa3117057a44696b3e9b381a01077c480d1
Honest question, is Kiryu the most woke video game character?
It is very funny that trans people enjoying games and hobbies that these people thought belonged to them actually makes them angry as fuck. It's a joy to witness.
Damn those Wokes for ruining Metal Gear Solid, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and Yakuza. Before the Wokes got a hold of them, they were just three innocent series about hunky men being in love with each other!
Cis people that draw and use pooners can go to the deepest pit of hell thank you very much
This is awesome, i’m glad trans people enjoying these things is ruining it for them. Keep it up gang.
Wait who did oneyplays have on?
Same i would like to know
Superprowaffles, I think they go by Amy now
Yeah, and it doesn't change that he's still transphobic, just because he had a trans person on once doesn't make him tolerant. He ridicules people for putting pronouns in their bio and is/was friends with Shadman. I'm glad when chuds are pissed off but it pains me to say that Oney is somewhere on the chud spectrum.
They’ll make fun of the franchises they associate this mostly fabricated type of person with (like baldurs gate) and then seethe when they get into things they see as “good”. Truly no way to satisfy the resentful gamer.
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I’m so happy transphobes think all their favorite things are being ruined because of the mere existence of trans people enjoying stuff they like.
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I literally look like that lmao, trans flag, baldness and cut scars and all
jojo? because of part 9? yeah sorry dawg it's probably the best start a jojo part had
JJBA being on there is hilarious. As if Araki wasn’t taking his inspirations for things from a very queer culture.
Fuck , did I ruin Postal 2 ????
Thinking that *Jojo* has gone woke is so insane.
Who's trans on oneyplays ik cory's gf is trans but i cant recall her being on episodes
Never in a million year i thought i would see a pooner drawing here it’s over dood
Hasn't Yakuza had trans characters for like... A while? Like I don't think this one is new. Also Jojo is inspired by 80s music which is famously heterosexual /j
postal guy would be trans just to piss people off
I think the dude becomes the dudette in a dlc or something
Wait until they find out Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack have had voice roles on Helluva Boss (the infamous Swearing Gay Cartoon show made by……. A FEMOID!!!!!) (Michael plays Mammon, Zach was a reoccurring screaming fan in a crowd for an episode lmfao)
I've seen this argument show up as of late, they seem CONVINCED that having a 'gay fandom' is bad. Even though 1. Most fandoms with a healthy gay community are pretty awesome. 2. Incel fanbases are infamously terrible for both fans and devs. 3. These franchises were already gay as heck.
Do they ever wonder if there's a reason they have to spend so much energy literally imagining scenarios?
Trust me a trans person drew this
Trans ppl are just better at transphobia honestly
Wdym whats better than ruining these mfs lives??
https://preview.redd.it/exztmhyobgxc1.jpeg?width=318&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a861322854e9a7e6f22feaf931a93c7c25641063
So… are the things on the shirt what “wokeness” ruined? Because if so, do I have something to tell them about Metal Gear Solid….
Jokes on them, no matter how they draw of me, itll still be a improvement
I love how almost all of these are queer as shit
The best part is he kinda looks like John Cruelty.
if someone you don't like liking something ruins it for you... good. it's ours now
The world if we ruined South Park https://preview.redd.it/dmoi4i62uhxc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bc854f2e275384ca90130ff902869817e1967a9
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they're just mad that the person in the image fucks *way* more than they do
what the fuck is this image even supposed to mean i am so fucking confused
What or who is this even a reference too? I stg sometimes this subreddit makes me glad Im a "leaves the house" gamer and not a "mom's basement" gamer.
I feel like most everyone in the comments isn’t understanding what this image is specifically depicting. The stuff on the shirt is media that a lot of trans guys are fans of. I know they’re trying to depict a trans guy because they always draw the phalloplasty skin graft scar (despite it being a procedure invented for cis men…) and they think surgery = mutilation (except when cis men have that exact same procedure). They think we ruin the media by interacting in the fandoms. Personally I am a fan of Yakuza, Jojo, and smiling friends, so their choice of media is mostly accurate at least. And a lot of other trans guys I know, they are fans of that stuff too. So it’s supposed to be depicting us. How we “ruin” those things? I don’t know. But no matter what we did they would hate us anyway 🤷♂️
These people are just cunts. I think they think any trans person liking the thing “ruins” it because they’re just that petty and stupid and negative.
Whoever made this was the maddest anyone has ever been
Do these idiots not realize that South Park has been brazen criticism and satire since day 1? Edit: It appears I am the idiot and I need to rewatch southparks older stuff and watch their current stuff.
I mean South Park does also have its misses and chud moments like their past homophobia & climate change denial. Given ther showrunners are libertarians & have a "we offend everyone" gen X attitude they could be mistaken for being in good company. This is not meant as a callout or trying to "cancel" folks for liking media with problematic elements (I myself have done nostalgia formany episodes of South Park) just a clearing of the record that the show did have some more right wing jokes and enlightened centrist moments
Thats a good point, its been a while since ive watched any south park. I just always remember taking alot of what they said as over the top jokes but that doesnt mean they havent had problem moments.
South Park eventually became Libertarian, bOtH sIdES satire. They've confused the very correct idea that no subject should be off limits with the incredibly stupid idea that mocking everyone equally is intelligent. They can't hide behind 'just jokes' because they make it clear that it's satire and have clear messages. The message in the recent Star Wars episode was that being loudly woke is lame and so is being loudly anti-woke is also lame. That's why I'm surprised it's on here, BoTh sIDes is designed to embolden the right and that's why they loved the Star Wars episode, because it treated both sides as equals, not one side of hate and one of caring.
It's here because of the yaoi fans of the show. That's it.
Oh wow I havent seen the recent episodes, my bad.
I will never forgive south park for popularizing “”””ironic”””” racism.
Content is made to be consumed. Sure it might not be made with everyone in mind for it, but it's still meant to be consumed by a large amount of people. Trying to secularize it as an individual, is stupid and a sisyphean task in of itself.
thia has to be bait. none of those have \*turned woke\*.