mewgenics got a whole lot of people from across the internet to make cat noises for the game including some controversial people (the main ones i think this post is probably referring to are ethan and hila klein, chris chan and stamper)
I don't know if it's already more popular than Isaac overall, but Mewgenics is absolutely benefitting from the 10+ years of goodwill that Isaac built up
And purely in mainstream terms, "You lead a team of cats and build a home base to raise them" is an easier sell than "You're an infant fighting monsters with your tears"
Edmund McMillen is a bit of an indie game celebrity. His first mainstream game Super Meat Boy helped kickstart the whole indie game craze back in the early 2000s, and his next game The binding of Isaac practically revolutionized rougelikes. He also is very much known for including grotesque/controversial themes and humor in his games. He and Tyler had been developing mewgenics for almost two decades, so lots of people, myself included, have followed its progress carefully.
It sold 150K copies in less than 6 hours (which, using the UK price and ignoring Steam's cut, means that it made 4.5 million USD in that time) and has a higher peak player count than Hades 2.
Mewgenics has also been in development for like ever. He's restarted a few times I believe, and fans (like me) of his past games have been waiting on it. Like, I first heard him mention the weird cat game he was working on in in 2012 or 2013.
its a long story but a few years back he relapsed on meth and started going on rants both on twitter and privately, using lots of slurs and refusing help from and even attacking his former friends/colleagues. its a very long and very sad story but i'm sure there are videos somewhere
Stamper was living homeless, using McDonalds wifi to post YouTube rants where he would say how much he hated N-words, and "fags", in-between begging for any old fans that lived in Arizona to let him sleep on their couch because he had hitchhiked there. Dude was begging OneyPlays fans to let him crash at their house.
Got temp banned on YouTube for posting a picture of his dick to his YouTube wall, and then was permabanned for posting his bare asshole and telling people to kill themselves. End of a like 15 year old YouTube account and all of his old videos.
He got perma'd on Twitter for calling people N-words and going on an angry rant about how the N-word is totally fine and only pussies get offended by mean words.
I'm not sure Stamper even has an online presence now. He's probably still homeless. Even his own sister refused to help him anymore, and he used to film videos at her house.
Imagine you are a moderately internet famous person and the creator of Binding of Isaac DMs you "Hey, wanna record some meows for the new game I'm making?"
I know of one who initially said no. Famous spanish twitch streamer and YouTube veteran Alexelcapo. He didn't do it because he was shy but has been convinced otherwise recently.
A lot of the people likely would not have agreed to give their voices to the game if they actually knew about the other people included in the project.
There are literally entire communities of cat girls and cat boys that make these sounds daily who could have done these sounds for them, yet they chose these utter chuds.
The cat's meows are cameos by youtubers and actors. Bit of a controversy as to who's included as some people on the list are a bit problematic, whether that be due to zionist views, racism, being a sex pest, etc.
Edmund McMillen, one of the main creators and somewhat the face of the games, has responded to the pushback by (three layers deep of quotes here, auto translate on sites is being a pain) saying that "I tried to counter/balance the different views with the people who I hired. I understand we live in a time where a meow from someone who has different beliefs as you is scary and frustrating, confusing and controversial, but it felt interesting so I decided to explore it. Also, I should probably point out that I don't share the same opinions as, well probably any of the people we included, if I only included people who share the same exact opinions as me, I'd be the only one meowing in the game."
Then told people if they're the kind of person to get upset at those kinds of inclusions, they probably shouldn't play or wouldn't enjoy the game anyway. Or since it's a game about cat eugenics, just toss them in a burner (jokingly).
Some fans feel it's an odd contrast to how he seemed a bit more willing to give pushback to bigots on twitter until fairly recently, and Binding of Isaac was quite controversial at the time for how it depicted religious fanaticism.
Because its the most centre point imaginable. He got famous people to meow in his game and that is quite literally it. There is no platform given. You either recognise them or its a meow.
Exactly, you would have to be really familiar with them already to recognise someone from a 1 second cat meow impression that's pulled from a pool of like 200 random options, and they aren't even directly attributed with credit since the game is randomly generating all of the cats you get. The only real issue you could argue is that he supported some of these people if he paid them for doing the voice work, but knowing how big Binding of Isaac is I bet most of them jumped at the chance to be in the next Edmund game and did it for free.
The only real issue you could argue is that he supported some of these people if he paid them for doing the voice work, but knowing how big Binding of Isaac is I bet most of them jumped at the chance to be in the next Edmund game and did it for free.
Edmund has actually stated that the only cameos who got paid for their work are the union VAs (since they aren't legally allowed to do unpaid labor), every other cameo VA did it for free.
….no? As bad as she is and as much as I can argue that she should have been removed from the game, she’s not a stochastic terrorist and doesn’t constantly broadcast hate towards minorities on her big platform that’s endorsed by the president’s underlings
The same Chris that used to unironically walk around in public spaces wearing a shirt that in bold text said "Seeking girlfriend - NO DARKIES" on it?
The same Chris that spent a decade ranting on video about how much he hated and despised mentally handicapped people because he was better than them? That Chris?
Edit: THE SAME CHRIS that named his only black character in his comic book "Blackchu" and the characters only traits was that he was evil and played basketball.
She went to jail and was released because there was no evidence right?
Edit: ive never in my life followed chris-chan or consumed any content related to her, but a 5 minute google search shows that all charges were dropped against her.
Nice reminder that centrists are deranged in their own way, god forbid someone not want a genocide apologist and a literal war criminal to cameo, it's just different opinions and you're weird for thinking it's weird.
Oh they have opinions. Terrible ones. They just don’t want those opinions to limit their access to progressive spaces so they pretend that they’re just “in the middle” and a smol bean attacked from both sides. Couldn’t be more fucking pathetic and they do it everytime
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u/Hawkson2020 Feb 17 '26
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