After a long history of avoiding "culture war" (cringe term, I know) topics Simple has decided to go out of his way to do a pride month themed merch run.
Now if this merch were kept
simple it wouldn't be worth mentioning but he's seen fit to include a verity of gender meme flags in said merch, which is pretty lulzy.
What's more Simple has stated that he will donate the proceeds of this merch run to an "appropriate charity."
In the year 2023 this will probably be a disingenuous charity used to fund a super pact at best and one that seeks to aid in
gender affirming care child sex change operations at worst. I'm not saying that Simple is aware of this or even that he wouldn't support these causes; I'm saying it is a fact in current year.

This particular breaking with his tradition of avoiding political topics is probably not an issue for most of his audience. However many people enjoy Simple
because he's not political, myself included.
Just to clarify for those who suffer from FAS, flag symbolism pared with persistent commentary on legal policy and social norms makes "pride" political rather you like it or not.
Really this isn't a big deal or even all that much of a surprise, I just wanted to post my thoughts about it somewhere and this seemed like an appropriate place to do it.
I have a few speculations as to why Simple is breaking with his unofficial policy, first and foremost being that he's just an idiot and doesn't realize the political implications of the pride movement.
Another theory is that he wishes to repent for his constant use of the term "gay baby jail" in the past and appease the brain dead, pearl-clutching retards who criticize him for it.
Perhaps Simple is attempting to garner good will after his BPD exes accused him of abuse.
It could be that Simple is irked by the OSRS community and other OSRS autist in his Discord server and clan chat who meme about Jagex's pride event which is currently underway.
Most likely though he genuinely supports the cause because he associates with a lot of
LGBTQIA++ folx mentally ill people due to his adjacency to the sped running community (not a typo.) All so I'm not sure if it's a meme or not but he might have even dated a tranny (probably a meme.) Could be a mixture of all of these things, who knows and I don't think anyone really cares.