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The funniest schism I've ever seen is the bet hedging on the Mario movie and it's an example of why threads and questions like these boil down to the motive of people originally making the claim. A lot of conservative influencers started off by calling it "woke" after the trailer but when the film came out it happened to be workable as a cudgel to whatever Disney release was out at the time, so a bunch of them reserved course.

But still, multiple influencers stayed in the lane calling the Mario movie "woke" and it made them look absurd because it isn't about the movie or even the contents therein, it's about if it has something that ticks an arbitrary "woke" box and if the film is or isn't weaponizable against another film release as part of a weird, myopic culture war.

We even have this with TC. Why is Forspoken woke? Who knows, but it was dragged almost entirely for its tired Marvel dialogue and not anything to do with politics. "Go woke" ends up meaning whatever the right wing influencer wants it to mean so they can, say, take an example of a game that bombed for non-political reasons and pretend "going woke" is why it failed to pad their numbers. TC doesn't even seem to know the Bud Light controversy waned and that you can in fact still buy it.

Something tells me TC won't be posting a lot in this thread but I thought I'd point out some funny contradictions/schisms.