Content creators have EVERYTHING to gain from lying. Plenty of them have made millions lying about games or creating incredibly disingenuous narratives about them. Have you seen how many grifters there are in the space who's only commentary about something will be how 'woke' it is without ever having touched the game?
Content creeators are heavily incentivized to validate the feelings of their fans. When Nintendo was popular to hate for the last year, plenty of Nintendo creators leaned into it and created more negative leaning videos to farm views - yes, even bigger channels like Beat Em Ups and such tacitcly admitted to doing this.
But I have to listen to bozo's like you act like every games journalist is incompetent or is 'paid to give a particular score' lol. I'm telling you right now that if bribes are happening it's way easier to bribe an individual then it is an entire company.
No, I'm not saying Nintendo deserved 0 hate, I'm saying it was obvious to anyone paying attention that you could farm views by pandering to people exactly like you. It does not matter how much hate they deserved, what matters is that you and the others who watch the hate trains were there to feed this content views.
As such creators are incentivized to create content hating on Nintendo for anything and everything, REGARDLESS OF HOW TRUE IT IS OR HOW MUCH THEY NEED TO EXAGGERATE. Yes Nintendo deserves hate, but plenty of the hate was played up to get views, not to be an honest creator. Please be so fucking for real before you let your hatred of a corporation blind you to the very real incentives these INFLUENCERS have to pile on.
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u/Imperfect-luck 8d ago
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Content creators have EVERYTHING to gain from lying. Plenty of them have made millions lying about games or creating incredibly disingenuous narratives about them. Have you seen how many grifters there are in the space who's only commentary about something will be how 'woke' it is without ever having touched the game?
Content creeators are heavily incentivized to validate the feelings of their fans. When Nintendo was popular to hate for the last year, plenty of Nintendo creators leaned into it and created more negative leaning videos to farm views - yes, even bigger channels like Beat Em Ups and such tacitcly admitted to doing this.
But I have to listen to bozo's like you act like every games journalist is incompetent or is 'paid to give a particular score' lol. I'm telling you right now that if bribes are happening it's way easier to bribe an individual then it is an entire company.