I reported them for harassment with the following statement:
The purpose of this group is to review bomb any game that has gay representation. Their discussion threads talk about using other platforms to discriminate against LGBTQ+ communities and individuals to circumvent Steam’s TOS policies. This type of behavior promotes discrimination, review brigading, and toxicity. It is surprising Steam is tolerating such open homophobia on this platform.
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I don’t understand the thought process of following something like this. You’re just going to be seeing content that annoys you and getting mad…
That is the point, yeah. It’s just ragebait, but for the chronically online chuds who fill their days with 2016 era youtube videos that have red arrows on the thumbnail, yellow circles, black outlined white impact font, and then they also have the one picture of that chick yelling when trump got inaugurated.
People get addicted to this kind of stuff because it specifically triggers negative emotions, which they associate to certain phrases, concepts, things, and people, and then they get pushed further and further inward to rationalize it more and more.
You start from a false premise. The reason for curators on Steam is that recommendations pro/against a game appear on the game’s store page.
It allows you to avoid stuff that someone already played and knows you won’t like.
Curators you follow have their reviews pop up in the store page when you’re looking to buy/download something, so if you want to avoid something, like easy anti-cheat, you follow https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32754914-No-To-Easy-Anti-Cheat/ and you’ll get this notice whenever you click on a game that uses it: https://imgur.com/Fvugcm1
These weirdos even think there’s an LGBTQ character and boom, instantly triggered. Bonus points for a minority existing as anything else but a target.
Lol wonder how they feel if main character is tentacles.
They could have gotten away with it if they had have just called it “Gaydar”… But “Woke” content detector… That’s just some rightwing neofascist shit.
There’s a lot more than that: https://store.steampowered.com/curators/topcurators/?filter=all&keywords=woke&x=0&y=0#
Some of these cute curators don’t understand subtext. Labelling the game Unpacking as not woke.
Do you expect them to see anything below surface level in any form of art?
Maybe they should realize that video games are art, and since art is “gay” then they should just stay away from it entirely.
Interesting. TIL:
- There is a slew of anti-woke curators.
- Many of them just list games “Sweet Baby Inc.” was involved in, which is a “DEI consulting firm” apparently.
- There are a few pro-woke curators as well.
- There is an Alex Jones themed video game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2487350/Alex_Jones_NWO_Wars
- One curator considers it woke, apparently: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2487350/Alex_Jones_NWO_Wars/?curator_clanid=44914881
Not recommending Baldur’s Gate 3 for ““wokeness”” is hilarious. That game is a masterpiece.
Funny thing is, statistically speaking, they’re probably closeted gay themselves.
Seriously though who cares? It’s not really spreading hate - a lot of closeted or close minded people aren’t comfortable with their sexuality and are going to do this.
People don’t have to like everything, relax.
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I dunno. I think every list like this ends up helping to normalize hate and bigotry. That said, if I made one of these with a list of Christian games to avoid, it doesn’t mean I hate Christians, it just means that I am looking to avoid games with Christianity in them.
The difference here is that “woke” is a loaded and weaponized term. It’s like having a list of “groomer” games and then filling that list with games featuring LGBT+ characters. It’s based in bigotry.
If you made a list of these that were offensive to Christians would it be bigotry? What about if it was offensive to Muslims? The left? The right?
I’m sorry but we aren’t standing on some mountain top where we can dictate that shit. As long as no one is getting hurt and everyone is an adult who are we to judge? I don’t agree, I find it distasteful sure, but it’s narcissistic if I was to think I can judge.
Let people like and dislike stuff. You’ll only entrench their opinions by restricting them in any case.
The whataboutism is strong with this one. People are getting hurt by this group. Choosing to ignore that is your choice.
Sadly I expect this kinda shit to be normal
- I used to get various death threats because of a trans flag in my profile, it’s been replaced by spam scammers
- When they didn’t take down the Rittenhouse game that stung a bit…
time to report this to valve
Why is this an issue? Should all people enjoy LGBTQ+ content and not have any way to avoid it if they so wish? Also, the curator is not using offensive language, just pointing out which content has pro-LGBTQ+ content.
A total non issue my dudes. Perhaps there are more important fights out there?
Amen.
Steam has a hard limit on like 200 curators to ignore, after which point it will print a vague error about it not working. I know, I hit that limit. That’s not a solution.
Then make a stink about that and they’ll fix it. Most likely nobody tested if the system breaks when you have so many curators blocked (because honestly, who would have this many) and it’s a simple fix to do.
I find their selective use of quotation marks quite offensive.
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I agree, that is a bannable offense.
you should get your ears checked. lotsa whistling of a certain kind in the words this curator used.
e : also, one shitty thing doesn’t mean another can’t exist. not sure why you’re here in the first place.
LMAO excellent username
thanks 🥰
The curator wants to use offensive language but avoids doing so to prevent getting banned. So they use “polite” ways to discriminate and encourage their following to do so as well.
If you looked any further into this group and exited your own bubble, you would realize this. Instead you commented without reading further and assumed I reported this group because they don’t enjoy the same types of games I do.
By this logic, i could accuse you of wanting to say the N word but only not saying it to avoid getting banned. So FACTUALLY nothing like that happened but you realize how shit would the justice system be if it worked like this? I could just insert thoughts and wants into anyone’s head, and crucify them. If something didn’t happen then it didnt. Call it out once it does. Dont’ assume.
I’m not assuming. They explicitly state they do this in one of their discussion threads. Take your own advice.
While I see where you are coming from is it not possible that such reviews might ironically benefit the LGBTQ+ as it helps to identify content that might resonate with the individual? Admittedly “Woke Watch” has fascist connotations.
We can just have curators bring focus on those games in a positive manner then. We really don’t need to give fuck wads like these any ground to stand on, they’ll just use it as a staging ground to push from. Besides if even hypothetically we entertain the idea of us getting something positive out of this it’s not worth it. We’re not painting a mountain range, there’s no happy accidents with bigotry involved.
Hold on, Animal Jam is on Steam now? I remember when that was a Flash game.
It probably still is, just in a container or something. It’s only the flash player for the web that was deprecated, standalone flash is still supported.
just looked it up – the version on steam is in fact Animal Jam: Play Wild – the 3D mobile version made in Unity for mobile devices – ported to PC
Fair, I just usually assume companies will do the laziest thing possible, which in this case would be to bundle the original flash game with a standalone flash player and call it a day
what, you think a company that makes more than ten billion dollars a year should be able to afford basic moderation?
Don’t worry guys, I’ll sift through all this gay hentai so you guys don’t have to I’m a hero!
Thanks lad, can’t wait for you to find all the airport toilets that should be avoided so I don’t accidentally wander my way into a BJ.
I keep telling all these gay men to stop sucking my cock but they just won’t! I’m really annoyed about it!
Thanks for the warning label, Steam. You’re doing God’s work.
you’re–this is a joke, right?
WHY IS DEI BAD
Diversity Equity Inclusion. Some businesses have some people to try to make sure their hiring practices aren’t discriminatory, and that’s referred to as DEI.
But racists are against all of those things so to them DEI is a bad thing. And as these things go, DEI has become a codeword they use to express anger at anyone non-white having a job or represented in any kind of media. Like most dog whistles they pretend that they’re cleverly avoiding being overtly racist but it doesn’t fool anyone.
It’s state sponsored racism/sexism.
We should strive to give everyone the same shot, through universal free education, healthcare, etc.
Equality begins at birth, not when you’re just out of high school.
Instead we do a shit job at being a functional society and decide after the fact that none of it matters and you gotta get them quotas going.
As long as DEI, Affirmative Action, Positive Racism w/e you want to call it exists, you will always have people questioning the reason behind a minority person/woman’s employment, and their performance will always be scrutinized harder. Are they actually talented, or are they here to fill a quota? That is a valid question no matter what anyone will say.
This is right on the money.
I don’t think that they promote homophobia. The texts clearly are in favor of the games, they probably missed the Recommend button several times in a row
