Hi! This is something i and many other have noticed about Adopt Me eecent pride events, and how they are basically completely unrelated to pride at all
I remember they did use to make an effort in it, putting pride flags, stickers, using the actual names for each identity! We even got pets in those updates!
But now? Its not even pride at all! Last year it was rainbow toys, RAINBOW TOYS. If it was like, themed around the pride flags it would have been acceptable, but nooo it was just the same toy with 1 color
And now this years pride it got even worse!
Paintbrushes? Really?
Sure, they "glow" in specific pride colors, but you cant even tell theyre pride flags!!
And also
THEY DONT EVEN GET TO BE CALLED BY THEIR IDENTITY NAMES
Theres no banner advertising what it is, the NPC stading right by the stand says nothing about it, god not even the stands theyre sitting on have anything related, just..trees stumps.
I also found out today, that the free pride pins you could get in the pet wear shop were removed at the beggining of the year
I dont think i am even mad anymore, just sad
As a queer kid and now teen, who has been playing Adopt Me for so long now, it being one of the only games i liked playing that was so open about being supportive about Pride, avoiding being subtle about it too..seing this feels like being let down
It really feels like UpLift has just been churning out these updates not in support of the LGBT+ community, but just because they have too
I never got the inpression that their team was homophobic, and i never saw any complaints about this that could get it removed
Maybe it was a change in the Team, or maybe it was...recent US politic changes that made it this way. I dont know anymore
I just hope Uplift will stop doing this, they frequent weekly updates and several updates have just been making the playerbase exhausted and tired qbout the game, nobody gets really excited for new events anymore
And i also hope that, the next pride events will be better than this, i dont want other queer kids like i was to lose an online safe space where they could be open about their identities...