Come think of it, The Escapist hiring on creators with a distinctive accent that was at least partially suppressing it was kind of a recurring theme. Whenever Miracle of Sound released a video game song in an irish folk style, there where people who'd slam him for his "fake" irish accent (he's literally irish).
One of the unintentionally funniest things you can do as a youtuber is to develop a broadcast accent for your own reasons and then forget to do it in exactly one video.
I remember back in the days while I was still watching The Escapist videos and Moviebob got a little spirited in one of his videos and suddenly started talking in a Boston accent.
This is somewhat tied to the game design observation that people tend to like and be incentivised more by bonuses than penalties. So like, even if the actual mechanic plays out the same, getting a bonus for doing something is gonna have a better response than getting a penalty for not doing something. (For example, getting a "rested" bonus for having your character sleep through the night rather than a "tired" penalty for having your character up too late)
https://blog.trilemma.com/2023/12/whose-mechanic-is-it-anyway.html This is a really fantastic observation when it comes to TTRPG game design, how it's generally the player who benefits from a particular mechanic that should keep track of it, if you ask players to keep track of a mechanic that's purely negative for them, like encumbrance, chances are they are just gonna want to ignore it.
Whose Mechanic is it Anyway?
Here's a simple principle: (1) The player who needs to use a quantity should be the one tracking it. If you're the one who updates your rog...
Some of the people I knew from the Steven Universe fandom went on to complain about how Star Butterfly is too sexualised in Star vs The Forces of Evil, so being exposed to pretty pedestrian anime tropes through western cartoons and being unable to handle it seems to be a recurring theme for at least a particular type of SU fan.
Like, imagine showing Space Pirate Mito to a crowd of people who expected a cartoon about cute agender lesbians holding hands and who yells at YA authors on twitter as a hobby and you can get a sense for why some people reacted to Steven Universe the way they did
I think the thing about Steven Universe that wrongfooted a lot of people is that people took one look at it and just decided that it's this fluffy little cartoon that's queer only as far as being "good representation" and then when it turns out it's really closer to one of those space opera anime with some sort of gender thing going on that turns into toxic yuri halfway through haphazardly shoved into the mold of a middle-grade animated show a lot of peoples heads just kind of exploded.
@hazel She would be so powerful if she transitioned, it'd be like one of those scenes in an anime when the already ridiculously strong character takes their training weights off and simply flexing their muscles causes a shockwave to reverberate through the scene.
Gravity Falls Wendy is an example of what I believe is the writers accidentally writing a trans girl. It is to be expected, one of their stated goals of the character was to write the coolest girl they could think of and trans girls are incredibly cool.
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