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ConfusedTorchic posted...

they're such a weird group of people who just seem to want to be upset at everything despite actually getting what they want.

Eeyup. They get so frantically terrified of the idea of some SJW bogeyman coming to take away their games that they ignore basic empirical reality.

Count_Drachma posted...

I'd say the same to any "on the street" segments. Even taking everything off the table, somebody isn't likely to meet the best and brightest just out on the streets -- at best, it's the lower side of average people.

And in a city with a pronounced leaning, you also aren't likely to get as many genuine opinions, but instead what they think they can or should say.

It's simpler than that. You don't need to dip into thinly-veiled classism or political victimhood, you just have to look at the simple reality of how those videos are made: The creator goes out, interviews a bunch of people, then selects which of the interviews they want to include in the published video. The format carries an air of credibility because of how casual and random it seems, but in practice all any such video proves is "I was able to find X people that hold this opinion." It indicates nothing about how prevalent that opinion actually is because the presented data set omits every data point that the presenter doesn't want to share. There's a massive selection bias there that cannot be overcome without presenting the video wholly unedited.

So even beyond the question of whether or not it's reasonable to judge a game based on a picture of a character, the whole video exists solely to affirm the beliefs of people who already don't like that character's design, not to serve as an actual poll.