To me it still signals the path that they're planning to go down, which is a bad one.

2/2 I experienced mirthschmerz today after seeing a video someone had shared of some battle simulator with 10,000 Billie Eilish facing off against Elon Musk and an army of 1,000 Tesla bots. It's supposed to be funny but it just reminds me how bad everything is. Mirthschmerz.

"Never resign" is the best chess lesson. Ben Finegold has several good videos about this.