People accused the devs of being pedos for making a tragic game based on their OWN CHILDHOODS. Seriously people, media literacy, critical thinking, expand your baby brains a bit, leave your comfort bubble, think. Depicting immoral things does not mean you condone them. There is more to life than ☀️🌈

I think about this particular game I love that depicts a young girl going through abuse and trauma, it's sad and heartwarming altogether, and there's a story being told. The devs said it was based off of their own childhoods, but did that stop people from accusing them of glorifying child abuse?

And this fact is why media literacy is dying. When everything is "problematic" no matter what, despite the context, we can't broaden our perspectives and understanding, and can't grow. It's the flattening of important conversations and experiences for the sake of comfort.

Often, art is supposed to make you think, feel, examine different experiences than your own, even if it makes you uncomfortable, especially if it does so. We have gotten so used to curating these toxically positive echo chambers of comfort that we can't think critically about anything anymore.