LogFAQs > #961517169

Honestly I realized the whole idea of "Get woke, go broke" probably comes from comic book fans who extrapolate their medium's trends onto much bigger and more mainstream media like video games and film. It's pretty clear that's not the case and yet they'll continue to raise hell. I've largely ignored Nerdrotic because his gimmick is even more blatantly obvious than it is for others and his video titles are full of clickbait.

I just find the narratives these people peddle as being utterly ridiculous and borne out of horribly bigoted mindsets. It took me until today to realize I couldn't think of many white male heroes still alive in the MCU because I don't typically pay much attention to that kind of thing, which is also why the politically-motivated backlash towards the Star Wars sequel trilogy took me by surprise. Even otherwise though the film industry is so predominantly white and male that complaining about there being not enough white male heroes comes off to me as being a completely new development with no past precedent, and makes it seem like these people can dish it out but they can't take it. The amount of parallels all this has to real-world politics is also insane but them's the breaks. I still feel like this is being driven by angry comic book fans and Star Wars fans who simply hate how the trends that supposedly destroyed their media are spreading to the MCU and I freaking loathe how sore Star Wars fans in particular are to the point it affects their judgement of completely different franchises.

(that being said, I do understand that the sequel trilogy would have been very contentious even without people bent out of shape over identity politics, but that's not a discussion for here)