Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a welfare ad featuring a young white guy gaming on his couch. Bridget Phetasy breaks down why the ad backfired, why identity politics is poison whether the left or the right plays it, and why a generation of men told their existence is a problem is nobody’s idea of a good outcome.
Also: A horse named Austrian Painter won its debut race, and the Internet went nuts. Here’s more from Phetasy’s latest edition of The Dumpster Fire.
The past couple of years have seen more layoffs than ever from the video fame industry. There are multiple reasons, including bloated games taking eight years or more to develop. By the time these games come out, people are tired of waiting, and often disappointed because the content doesn’t look fresh. Some of this crap truly reeks, packed full of woke DEI.
Take Double Fine, the game company just cut loose from Microsoft after years of being subsidized. The dimwitted CEO Tim Schafer says he can’t explain why so many gaming companies are now failing.
But Schafer is doing a Kickstarter to try to survive. Oh, and, by the way, to help with the Kickstarter he’s enlisted a hardcore leftist Antifa supporter — Ghost of Yotel star Erika Ishii. Schafer is either hopelessly naive or a total dunce! Here’s more from Clownfish TV.
Former Bethesda workers protested Xbox CEO Asha Sharma visiting their Maryland HQ to play Elder Scrolls 6.
The union even brought a Scabby the Rat inflatable. This isn’t going to go the way they think. In fact, it might lead to even MORE layoffs. Here’s more from Clownfish TV.
Bluesky cracks down on people celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, while DC Comics fires the writer of Red Hood for doing just that. The gaming industry is crawling with activists who are also celebrating Kirk’s death, and this isn’t going to go the way they think…Here’s more from Clownfish TV.
In a seldom seen scenario on Wall Street, the “little guys” turned the proverbial tables on the “big boys.” The big winners were WallStreetBets, a subreddit on Reddit that focuses on stocks that are overshorted by greedy hedge funds whose only goal is to destroy a company and make tons of cash doing it.
In a series of transactions that drew worldwide attention in the financial industry, WallStreetBets invested heavily in GameStop, much to the chagrin of London-based White Square Capital, which bet against the American consumer electronics and video-gaming firm. The final tally: WallStreetBets crushed the hedge fund, forcing them to shut down following double-digit percentage losses. Says Mr. Obvious, “The rich guys are losing and the little guy is winning. That’s what this is all about. We’re tired of corruption on Wall Street, we’re tired of a fake stock market.” And, he adds, many other hedge-fund firms have folded under the same circumstances. Here’s more.
