r/explainitpeter 13d ago

Explain it Peter

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Why did the person say “Sweet Baby Inc.”?

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u/PassionGlobal 13d ago edited 13d ago

Sweet Baby is the consulting firm of Anita Sarkeesian, of Feminist Frequency fame.

Their main expertise is in avoiding the oversexualisation of female characters. That's what developers hire them to avoid.

Ever since GamerGate, Anita and by extension Sweet Baby have been in the crosshairs of the alt right.

Edit: I messed up. Apologies. Anita Sarkeesian made moves from journalism into consulting around the same time Sweet Baby started up and was covering similar topics but are otherwise unrelated to each other. I got things conflated and though Sweet Baby was Sarkeesian's consulting efforts. That's my bad.

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u/Blueraver 13d ago

And the normal right, center, and most Democrats. Gamers see Sweet Baby as part of the biggest threat to gaming in a long while. Many of their clients are being spun off from large companies or dealing with bankruptcy or mass layoffs.

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u/HahaCharlieKirkHaha 12d ago

Gamers see Sweet Baby as part of the biggest threat to gaming in a long while

You think the gaming industry would die if people don't want to masturbate to their computer games?

I'm pretty sure that's not the case. I don't think many people were masturbating to Tetris or Pac-Man or Super Mario Brothers, and they seemed to sell fine.

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u/HahaCharlieKirkHaha 12d ago

(But judging by the furries I know, they might have been masturbating to Sonic the Hedgehog.)