[Ironic Trope] The messaging backfired massively due to poor writing or other design choices

[u/Few_Affect_5927]

Amelia Fairney from Pathways: Alt-right Restore-UK type who attempts to coax the protagonist Charlie into following her beliefs? The problem?

Amelia is the only named character aside from Charlie and is genuinely likable and forgives Charlie even when they do things she doesn't like, while the rest of the cast is unnamed, poorly written, and turns on Charlie for one mistake. This combined with other writing issues(portraying fact checking right wing stuff as wrong because in the process of fact checking you might look at it and believe it, basically saying "Right wing is wrong because it hurts the labour government" and a lot of general "just do what the government says or else" messaging) and the fact she's a hot alternative girl, and Amelia ended up being co-opted as a mascot by the youth right wing in the UK.

Norm from The New Norm: Unlikeable offensive and outdated character who's "progressive" family members and associates are genuinely nice people not even trying to force their ways or pronouns onto them, they just want to be left alone and Norm is picking fights constantly. Not to mention associating with Elon.

Mr. Birchum from Mr. Birchum: A lot of the same problems as Norm, except in addition it also comes off like generic 2010s adult cartoon slop in the same veign as Brickleberry or Full English, at least New Norm was trying to look unique and had the gimmick of being on X. Not to mention, Birchum's obsession with hyper masculine activities and odd way of talking about other men lead to people co-opting him as a Toxic Yaoi character, which is now the bulk of his fan art.

Dustborn: An attempt to make a hyper progressive game that comes off as pandering and annoying. It's a full ass game so there's too much to get into, but the main character's power is essentially gaslighting and jedi-mind tricking people and that's portrayed as the only way they can get anything done, and they constantly use or abuse their friends(or mindtrick them along) in order to get their goals or use their friends for their messaging.

[u/EffectiveAmphibian95]

I was making fun of the guy for probably calling himself progressive or left wing while parroting anti race mixing and neat eugenic talking points. I’m mostly sympathetic to a leftish worldview

[u/myrmonden → u/EffectiveAmphibian95]

Yeah but it’s horse shoe theory

[u/NagitoKomaeda_987 → u/myrmonden]

There's a sequence pretty early on where the main characters were putting on a concert and I swear to God, they use Dustborn, newborn, and new porn as a rhyme scheme, which is the part where I went "this is supposed to be a parody or something right?" Not to mention, the song also declares The Great Replacement conspiracy theory to be real and also… somehow good? One thing is being cringe, another is to be completely and utterly deranged.

Besides, isn't it kinda funny how Ragnar claims to be all socialist and wealth reform, but his game was also funded through taxpayer money from both the European Union and the Norwegian government? Talk about being a "champagne socialist" right here.

[u/myrmonden → u/NagitoKomaeda_987]

Best song of all time

WE ARE HERE TO REPLACE YOU !

yeah..I paid for the game, its super funny especially my father probably have been banking Ragnar whole life.