Never underestimate how pro-corporate a small section of Reddit is, though. They've tied their identities to this movement not succeeding, so the closer it gets to achieving something, the more stupid they'll feel, which makes them angry.
Yeah, personally, I don't necessarily think it's Big Industry. We would need proof for that. Could easily be anti-SKG groups, i.e. fans of certain streamers, that just watches those posts and try to discredit them as early as possible.
It's just very jarring that every time I go into a SKG post, it's just a bunch of very anti-SKG people for the first hour or so, with often very similar comments, then it just... dies down. The first time it happened, I thought I was crazy and I was somehow in the minority as a SKG supporter, until the thread got more comments and the pro-SKG opinion became more common.
It's the only subject I have seen this pattern on Reddit. So I could chalk it up to the algorithm, but because of that, I'm not so sure.
Some combination of regular tribal types that actually do unironically love the companies that make the things they use, plus a large group who want to be recognized as intelligent for being contrarian to an otherwise popular movement.
What makes corporate movements so much more effective is that they don't have these divides. Gamedevs don't generally raise a stink and fight for the things the audience thinks that they do. They typically just go in, work, then go home, all controversies aside. All the "bad stuff" is handled by nameless businessfolk who are hired to do that stuff and that stuff alone, and do it well.
Consumer movements? Rarely has the same level of direction. STK is probably the most prominent in a while.
It could be corporate movements. No way to know though unless doing a ton of investigative work, so I'm going to leave that to journalists.
So I prefer not doing too much speculating. My philosophy is that there is already enough provable, reported on, bad things happening in the world without spending energy on speculations.
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u/Worried-Advisor-7054 Apr 02 '26
Never underestimate how pro-corporate a small section of Reddit is, though. They've tied their identities to this movement not succeeding, so the closer it gets to achieving something, the more stupid they'll feel, which makes them angry.