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You can't separate art from the artist (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you don't like X but like X's work, there's a good chance X's views and politics are in said work. For example, I occasionally watch Act Man videos mostly to figure out what is going on with gaming and how it got ruined (not killed), but as you can probably guess he is a well-known anti-SJW chud and I have actually seen his politics in some of his videos like his infamous Feminists and SJWs vs video games. Another YouTuber I watch often called ThunderStruck115 is a lib given in videos with sections where he does talk abt politics (keep in mind he mostly makes response videos to usually bad takes in video games) it's pretty much enlightened centrist.

Another example is Call of Duty. You may like the gameplay and experience but the politics are still there. It still whitewashes the West including it's subjugation of the third world. Side note: This isn't to say gameplay shouldn't be ignored, it should take precedence over everything else including politics.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Youtube videos where the person expresses their opinions are not art, they're just videos of a person expressing their opinion. Call of Duty and other such video games are made by dozens if not hundreds of people, and not all of those people will have the same politics and it's unlikely most are able to insert their politics into the game. Big, mainstream games, like movies, are made to appeal to as large an audience as possible, therefore they will have or perpetuate the mainstream narrative and worldview.

A better example would be Papers, Please, a game made by a single person that takes place in a vaguely Eastern European, socialist-esque state and the game is a reflection of the designer's liberal view of (post-)Soviet countries.