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- Apr 28, 2021
It's like how how TNO turned the collective memory of Oskar Dirlewanger from a guy who occasionally appeared on "the 10 worst nazis list" articles into a household name appearing on edgy memes and 4chan discussions that all lessens the impact of what he did in real life. Or made Hyperborea an actual topic discussed in far right circles again. Or how Red Flood got a demographic (fat lonely gamers) that otherwise wouldn't have cared to be interested in the history of art.With regards to the Atomwaffen, I think we are finally witnessing the Kaiserreich IWW phenomenon in reverse: While IWW has morphed into pure simulacrum of the original IWW, now consisting of burger flippers with autism who are Syndieboos in a map painting game, so the Atomwaffen spinoffs have evolved independently in Instagram and Discord with zero influence of the original AWD people.
While the Kaiserreich devs ballwash the Syndies, I think this is purely an unintended consequence of TFR; Counterintuitively depicting AWD as evil appeals to AWD's target demographic. The "But TFR depicts everyone as heroes of their story!", AWD butchers POWs with axes, practices human sacrifices and nukes the planet, come the fuck on. TFR's devs definitely depicted AWD as evil....and probably achieved the opposite of what they intended. The Death of the Author and all that. Makes you think.
What do you think they should do?