Sweet Baby Inc, a consultancy providing woke narrative content, character design input, and sensitivity reading for game studios, is embroiled in controversy. Gamers critical of diversity blame the company for issues in the AAA gaming space, sparking a 'gamers are dead' phase. Kotaku defends Sweet Baby, while some see a conspiracy theory alleging the agency forces developers to be racist against white people.
A company called Sweet Baby Inc. has become the target of "anti-woke" gamers because it offers consultancy work, an industry-standard service that's been normal for years. https://t.co/ux9z6wZGDw
I'd somehow managed to dodge the worst of the Sweet Baby discourse... but yeah, the latest wave of Gamergate-descendants' new paranoid theory is that there's a shadowy consultancy agency forcing game developers to be racist against white people. Great thinkers one and all.
A Kotaku journalist attempts to get to the bottom of the woke controversy surrounding Sweet Baby Inc, a consultancy that provides woke narrative content, character design input and sensitivity reading for many major game studios. The journalist cannot keep they/them’s biases at… https://t.co/teughloHAe
The "gamers are dead" phase of the sweet baby thing is kicking off. Kotaku defending sweet baby as of 30 min ago: https://t.co/JET4HdbIVI @kabrutusrambo get ready
The Sweet Baby Inc controversy is entirely manufactured nonsense, pushed by angry gaming YouTubers as a way to blame diversity for the mess that is the AAA gaming space. If you think the opposite, this story is worth a read. https://t.co/yOKIfkvCc2