like not only is the standard of beauty for women already extremely narrow, there are a metric fuckton of mods for a metric fuckton of games with the focus on narrowing these beauty standards even further or recreating them wholecloth in games where the stylization didn't already reflect them

the thing that makes 00s sonic work is that it isn't joking. it earnestly wants you to believe that shadow is best friends with the president because he refused to give up on humanity after being cloned from a giant lizard to save the life of a 12 year old girl, which is why he's a hedgehog

as soon as they got insecure about how funny it was it ruined it for like two decades