They don't play those games. They probably don't even hear about them

If popular = not woke. If unpopular = woke. If being talked about right now for being woke = woke. If not being talked about right now for being woke = I don't know what you are talking about.

They're extremely stupid. That's the trick

There are hundreds of indie games released every week. What the ones you listed have in common is that they were all wildly successful. I don't think indie games as a whole are overwhelmingly queer and progressive, but there is a market for games that are.

These people usually don't play video games, the same way they don't play/watch women's sports. But they sure do love to complain about shit.

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It's the same or similar mechanism. They don't care about truth. They want certain outcomes or they feel certain things, so they say words (or make videos or whatever) to support that.

They feel a thing. Stuff to support it is true, and stuff that doesn't is wrong, a lie, or just ignored.

So how is it explained? It's not. That's not the goal.

Chuds complain about indie games all the time.

How can you say "indie and queer" and not mention hades :(

Celeste: Trans main character

I remember them not being very happy about this but since so many loved the game and had sunk time into it they just had to fucking cope

Fluoride or vaccines or something.

They don't really spend a lot of time thinking about indie games tbh

They usually aren't playing any game that is more ambitious than online shooter and wasn't pushed in their throats by huge advertising campaigns.

They’re full of shit and nihilists.

One of the narratives in GamerGate tried to explain this with the belief that the institutions that promote video games do so selectively in order to put inclusive, mediocre titles over those that are less progressive. The belief being that there is an anti-white, anti-straight fifth coloum that works to astroturf the sucess of these games at the expense of white men.

The anti-woke crowd is largely a bunch of grifters who want to stir up attention over the latest AAA game because it gets them more attention. Indie games get less attention and are very unabashedly queer, whereas AAA games might do something more subtle like add pronouns. It's a lot harder to claim there's a conspiracy or looming threat when the supposed threat is right there in the open and not mysterious.

They have to make the supposed woke agenda all mysterious, otherwise they can't make a video or series of tweets. They can't say "Celeste is normalizing being transgender" because that's just true, it's a sweet game made by trans people and has a trans main character. They have to instead hook gullible dipshits on some ominous looming threat that will someday change all video games, including the ones made with millions of dollars and huge teams. And they can't have specific enemies, otherwise they'd have to talk on the terms of whoever they're supposedly fighting. They can't ever get specific because otherwise people might start agreeing with whatever "woke" stuff the games have.

The woke agenda can't ever be specific individuals with specific goals. It has to always be a shadowy cabal with nefarious intentions who have literally no reason to be woke. Another reason is they can't just outright state what they mean, because they'd all instantly get banned from whatever platform they're on. They can't say "trans people, gays, and brown people shouldn't be represented in games" because that's simply hate speech that'll get them banned instantly. Instead they have to say "there's an occluded group of interlopers who are making games worse for monetary gain and their own sick pleasure." Because that sentence on its own is true, but they rely upon transphobic/bigoted context for their gullible audience to fill in the gaps

I don't think they even like video games that much, they like attention or whatever meager amounts of money they get

I guess they blame "activists"

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