Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-%E2%80%9Csweet-baby-inc%E2%80%9D-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-186#post-139597647

Okay I'm going to be real right now, given what I've seen today online, I think the internet is letting chuds control the narrative of GTA6 discourse and it's being used to dismiss any and all criticism of the trailer and the GTA series.

I feel like I would get dogpiled for saying this on any of the GTA VI threads but I feel like the only person in the world just not interested in GTA6, or seems to remember the series has a LONG history of treating women poorly, from nasty stereotypes, nothing but sex objects or are best generic girlfriends/wives who get next to no characterization. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills a bit and don't trust Rockstar one minute, even with a women PC not to do the same (especially when it came to light Rockstar "boys clubs" culture and poor treatment of women workers in the past), that trailer did not convince me otherwise.

This also feels a bit disturbing because the GTA fandom has a history of harassing and threatening women who dare criticize the treatment of women and the misogyny in the games; like I still remember the way Carolyn Petit was sent death threats, abuse and transphobia for weeks for her 9/10 review of GTA5 because she had a paragraph.

Also to be blunt I'm not against sex in video games, but I get the sense there wouldn't be as many people supporting and defending it if the trailer didn't include leering shots of Lucia Caminos arse or if she wasn't conveniently attractive (see the freakout and anger against Abby's sex scene in The Last of Us Part 2), or if the sex scene was instead a non-exploitative same-sex scene between two men or two women.

Also quite bluntly kind of disturbing finding people online and even era joking about how games let your murder prostitutes after having sex with them; way to show your support for women there... Quite honestly, I'm worried about this game releasing because I feel like ERA and the internet is going to be filled with fanboys dogpiling any women who dares criticize this games treatment of women of any othe problematic and bigoted content like transphobia.