So yesterday Matt Walsh headlined his show with the Sweet Baby Inc controversy, bringing wokeness in video games to the attention of a massive relatively-normie conservative audience. This made obscure YouTuber Jeremy Griggs (aka DDayCobra) mad because Walsh said, in part, that the issue "hasn't received much attention," and "should get a lot of our attention, and now, finally, that attention is here":
https://twitter.com/DDayCobra/status/1768265151843598680
And now it seems that anti-woke Twitter and YouTube (TheQuartering, Nerdrotic, etc.) are super mad at Walsh for joining their side at all, trending him on Twitter with their discontent.
Even though what Walsh said is absolutely true. Wokeness in video games have not gotten a lot of attention in video games outside a relatively small group of hardcore online video game enthusiasts. Gamergate is a very obscure subject beyond the recognition of a normie, especially
the truth about Gamergate obscured for a decade by the narrative of ideologically-captured video game journalism. Mainstream conservative media that Walsh is a part of, meanwhile, has protested plenty against woke Hollywood and literature, but video games have simply not been in their purview. I suppose, though, that the online anti-woke nerd crowd would actually prefer to cut off their noses and remain as insular losers than spread their message and activism to a wider audience.
Yeah, not everyone plays and enjoys video games. So what? Such people can still see legit issues in the video game industry and form common cause with those who have long been in the thick of it.
Yeah, of course he personally does not like anime either. And he goes the extra step of off-handedly dismissing it as "demonic" because that goes along with his dry, sarcastic sense of humor as a crotchety "old man" that anyone who's actually familiar with his content is aware of. It's plainly obvious given
his comedic video of him being put up with One Punch Man by audience request.
This all comes off to me as anti-woke YouTube personalities getting pissy that somebody with a much, much bigger audience is suddenly talking about their pet issue, feeling compelled to antagonistically "mark their territory".