I call this the "Bayonetta Effect". The left will call something "problematic" because it's "sexist" or "fascist" or whatever, but when that fails to stop its cultural momentum, they switch to trying to claim it. Suddenly, "it was always woke". Just like how Bayonetta went from being a symbol... of female objectification and male gaze to an empowering feminist icon, Frieren went from being fascist for revering the past and featuring an inherently evil race of demons to whatever this is.show more

@NEHWind I can’t wait for this to happen to Stellar Blade and see the left go from hating the game for “sexualizing women” (read: featuring sexy women) to praising the game and claim Eve is a “feminist and empowering queer icon”.

There used to be a meme for this, but I couldn't find it so I made a new one

Why do they identify with the demons tho

ya but this time we know what they are doing

When Amelia became a sensation, left-wing tried to portray her—an anti-immigration figure—as an immigration advocate with Muslim. The left tries to destroy subcultures like video games and comics, and if they can’t, they look for ways to exploit them. We need to be on guard.

Basically this

It's been their MO for a long time. They take whatever's popular and try to insert their retarded message into it. They usually are clueless *why* it's popular.

This is probably the most blatant example of this

It's more like they call something a "problem" when they need a dragon to slay to show they're still needed and then pretend it's "empowering" when they want to look cool and hip. No,neither one works.

The fun part is when it goes full circle and they go back to legitimately hating it. Like how they hate Bayonetta for being straight and having a child by the end of her story, or now they hate that Frieren continues to push all the "wrong" messages even after they complained.

I can't help but be reminded Vivian James/Lillian White comic This never actually happened with any of the characters besides Bayonetta unless you count the Tomb Raider reboots Someone should remake this comic with characters the "woke" actuallly pulled the uno reverse card on

Yup. I’ve said for years the left is the party of “Now and whatever it takes” they’ll constantly change their stances to be in the right & gain favor. They’ll say something today that contradicts what they said yesterday & that will be different from what they feel tomorrow.

They will never claim anything. Stellar Blade is ours. Bayonetta is ours. If you allow them an inch, they win. Never back down.

These people seem to take offense at something that draws a hard line between good and evil and portrays evil as iredeemable, which is odd but telling. Why do you NEED demons to be anything but purely evil? The left's love for moral relativism is on itself evil because sometimes people are just evil with no ambiguity about it.

And the best part abut the latter case is that Bayonetta was made by a lesbian. These people just hate anything that is understood to be good. they hated Frieren because it calls out their fundamental dishonesty in how they opterate.

This is an aside, but it’s hilarious that the left still consider their main enemies to be the KKK (functionally irrelevant) and Hitler (dead). They always portray one of those when they make these types of things.

I remember being a kid and seeing them do this in real time back in Tumblr. Bayonetta was "sexist" and "made for the male gaze". Then when Bayonetta got popular because of their screeching, all of sudden she was a "lesbian icon" and "for the girlies" all within two years.

Kojimas was hilarious. He was a misogynistic pedo before tweeting “I am a sociarist” and they immediately started hallucinating homosexual relationships with Snake and every character

gotta love it

It's because they don't actually believe a single word they say, and just repeat things they know won't get them in trouble with their "friends". It's why they were so angry about the Frieren demon thing, because it described their behaviour to a T.

Conservatives literally cvcked themselves for decades over "violent" video games and now pretend they never did so.

For 50 years colleges taught how art and especially pop culture defaulted to the right and how hard it was to produce left wing media. They hated Star Wars, Super heroes, action movies, fantasy, Romcoms, and even punk music. Because all those things endure they switched to claiming always woke.

They do this with Nikke as well. Anything that gains traction and they can't remove it, they try to corrupt it

nah, I can see Fieren nuking yet another Democrat

They sided with the Bugs in Starship Troopers, the Orcs in LOTR and the Demons in Frieren. They always side with the villains in fiction and real life because they are the villains. They're souls are indistinguishable from the monsters and demons they defend.

This was extremely noticable with One Piece.

Their stand operating procedure is infiltration by any means necessary.

They can try to change the narrative a thousand times over and rewrite history all they want but their is more than enough receipts to call them out on their painfully obvious lies and hypocrisy to send what little credibility they think they still have into orbit.

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