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Gaming journalism has hit a new low. In today’s video, we dive into one of the most absurd articles we've ever seen — a hit piece from The Gamer targeting Kingdom Hearts, claiming that Sora doesn’t understand love because of “compulsory heterosexuality.” Yes, really.
This isn’t just bad writing — it’s a perfect example of how woke gaming media continues to twist beloved characters like Sora and Link to push bizarre identity narratives no one asked for.
If you're tired of the constant attacks on classic games, if you’ve had enough of seeing Kingdom Hearts, Zelda, and even Mario reinterpreted through ideological nonsense, then this is a video you won’t want to miss.
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you ever read something that is so mindn
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numbingly disconnected from reality that
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you actually start to question whether
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the person that wrote it even likes
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video games because once again the gamer
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yeah the gamer is back at it This time
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they are dissecting Kingdom Hearts to
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tell us that Sora a literal 15-year-old
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boy who spent most of his life fighting
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shadow monsters with Donald Duck and
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other Disney characters doesn't
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understand love And that might be
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because of compulsory heterosexuality
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I'm not joking This is real I saw this
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video on Var Dark's channel and I was
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like you know what i have to talk about
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this because this is the most ridiculous
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article I've read in a while And if
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you're tired of this type of
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manufactured outrage over innocent
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characters and want actual gaming
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discussion make sure you guys hit that
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like button drop a comment with your
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take and consider subscribing Now let's
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talk about how journalism is once again
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becoming fanfiction therapy So the
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latest target of identity think pieces
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as Sora Yeah Kingdom Hearts Sora
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Apparently there's a specific line in
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the Pirates of the Caribbean world where
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Davy Jones says "Love is a dreadful
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bond." And Sora replies with something
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that's sweet naive about sharing his
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heart And it it's it's just too much for
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the folks at the gamer though right it's
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not progressive enough It's too
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heterosexual We can't have that We
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cannot have that Their argument and
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they're saying this is that Sora's vague
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understanding of love means he might be
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struggling with his identity and is
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possibly a victim of you guess it
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compulsory heterosexuality
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Yeah Because apparently being a teenage
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boy who doesn't fully understand
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romantic love must be a political
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statement now And this article is
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ridiculous So let's go ahead and take a
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quick breakdown of it And again Veradark
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did a banger video Shout outs to her Go
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check her video out I wanted to give my
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take of this because this is nuts Okay
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so they point to a scene from a spin-off
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book where Sora ponders what love really
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is And they use that to suggest there's
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deeper repressed uh feelings that just
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have to be queer queer quoted I I don't
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even like to say the word queercoded
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you know instead of just being a normal
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adolescent character in a fantasy series
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that's aimed at a general audience And
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the article shifts okay it stops being
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about the character and it actually
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becomes about the writer's personal
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journey where they're talking about how
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they grew up as a deeply closeted
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lesbian who didn't even know gay people
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existed until they were in their teens
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What does this have to do with video
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games what does this have to do with
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Kingdom Hearts i I don't know why we
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have journalists that continue to do
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this Remember Mercante's Elder Ring
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review where she made it about herself
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with the DLC and how she struggles with
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Chuds and Gamergate 2.0 and all this
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stuff I don't know why they consider to
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use video games as their soap boxes but
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this writer apparently writes about how
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they didn't relate to Disney princesses
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growing up They even say right here
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"Something just wasn't clicking when I
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saw them I could never see myself in the
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position of Belle Ariel Jasmine Aurora
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or any of the princesses who fell in
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love with a prince Love just felt alien
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to me
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Oh my gosh."
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And they went on to say that Sora
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basically mirrors their personal
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experience which again cool Relate
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however you want to something I'm still
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going to call it out if it's cringe
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Let's not pretend that a teenage JRPG
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protagonist who doesn't immediately fall
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in love with someone must be confused
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about his orientation But that that's
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what the gamer wants to pretend And this
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is the kind of thing that is a core
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issue with modern game journalism
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Honestly they project personal
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narratives onto established characters
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like Link like Sora I mean at this point
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what character hasn't been uh put some
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kind of weird political commentary on
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top of it this is the core issue all
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right that we have with modern game
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journalism They project personal
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narratives onto established characters
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like Link Sora you name it And then they
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get mad when the story doesn't reflect
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that Okay you're not analyzing Kingdom
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Hearts anymore at this point when you're
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writing this kind of nonsense article
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You're rewriting it to reflect your
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personal beliefs and then calling the
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original creators wrong for not agreeing
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with whatever is your head cannon And
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anybody that doesn't agree with it are
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bigots It seems like time and time again
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all these modern journalists are just
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cosplayers that spiral into personal
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projection Again the writer of this
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article talks about growing up being
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closeted not relating to Disney romances
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And then they conclude that the c
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uncertainty of Sora must come from the
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same place which is that buzzword that
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compulsory heterosexuality
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And again I'm not here to dismiss
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anybody's personal journey But
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projecting that onto a fictional
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character and then criticizing the
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creators in the same article for not
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matching that projection is just absurd
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Okay especially when the criticism
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implies that any portrayal of
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traditional romance is inherently wrong
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or forced by society which is what they
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go on this weird tangent in this article
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And I get it freedom of speech inform
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your opinion but this is not critique
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okay this is rewriting someone else's
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story to suit your narrative and
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expecting the rest of us to sit here and
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play along with it Okay these are the
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same voices right writers like this are
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the same voices that constantly preach
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about fluid identity and respecting
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people's personal journeys and their
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proper pronouns or their preferred
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pronouns and stuff Yet somehow they feel
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entitled to define what Sora's personal
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journey is
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or links or characters from any kind of
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video game that has some kind of
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character that they try to make into
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some kind of gender fluid character
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whatever And suddenly if the character
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doesn't fit their preferred mold it's
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because of oppression or corporate fear
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Oh they're homophobic They're bigots
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Whatever And they love doing this to
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Nintendo They love doing this to Disney
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Right The gamer has already previously
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claimed in other articles like one that
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I covered it literally was titled "Zelda
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has always been queer."
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ignoring the actual words actions and
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developer statements about Link Link is
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a male character He's always been
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referred to as a man but apparently we
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can't have that That's too hetero right
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and now with Sora he's only straight and
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doesn't understand love because of
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compulsory heterosexuality It's being
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forced upon him How How is this not
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cringe i like I can't be alone in
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cringing on this right the wildest part
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of all this though is that by not boxing
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Sora into a romantic arc is exactly what
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makes his character more universal His
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journey isn't about falling in love with
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someone It's about loyalty connection
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friendship sacrifice Those are the
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themes that people of all backgrounds
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can connect with regardless of their
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sexuality And let's be honest if Square
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Enix had forced in a love interest in
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this game those same critics would have
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complained that it felt uh forced still
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or some kind of other buzzword that I
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can't even think off the top of my head
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Ultimately there's no winning with this
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crowd Okay because it's never been about
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storytelling It's about controlling the
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narrative which is why there's companies
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like Sweet Baby Inc and so forth that
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try to consult narratives and stuff so
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they don't offend anybody so that
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there's no compulsory heterosexuality
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right and in the games in Kingdom Heart
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Sora themselves as a character they
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literally share their heart literally
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and metaphorically with the people all
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around him Okay that's what makes his
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character beautiful I would say And it
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doesn't need to be reduced to well he's
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not kissing anyone yet so he must be
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confused about whether he likes boys or
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girls or he's you know oppressed or
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repressed or whatever the hell you want
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to call it That's absurd That's
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literally lowering the quality of a of a
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great story that Kingdom Hearts has So
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this is this is where I get frustrated
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with gaming and I think a lot of you do
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too Okay gaming media used to be about
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video games Remember that the good old
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days Now it's about turning every
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fictional story into some kind of social
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political essay that nobody asked for
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We're not asking for it You want to
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write about politics and commentary and
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stuff go write for a news site not
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gaming Okay So who is this content for
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anymore like who is this it's not
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informing gamers It's not celebrating
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developers It's not encouraging new
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players to jump into these stories It's
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basically preaching right it's literally
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alienating anyone who just wants to talk
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about what makes a game fun or
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meaningful And the gamer and outlets
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like it they keep pushing these personal
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manifestos that are disguised as think
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pieces They'll say it's about
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representation right but it's really
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about
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virtue signaling and moral posturing and
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oh look at me and I'm pandering and and
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honestly when fans push back they call
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it harassment We've seen it time and
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time again That's their playbook If you
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don't like what they say you're toxic
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Gamers are toxic You're chuds And
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honestly most of us aren't mad at
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identity We're mad that the stories that
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we love keep getting dissected by people
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who don't care about video games That's
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the bottom line of it So fans are done
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being told what to think Okay we're
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tired of being told that enjoining
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character as they are whether it's Sora
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Link Mario is somehow problematic Okay
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gamers are always problematic right
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unless we interpret those characters
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through the right ideological lens right
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we have to oh we got to we got to make
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sure we're not going into gender norms
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and gender stereotypes and the
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patriarchy and all this right you see it
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across all the industry More and more
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players are tuning out to this Tune out
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these critics Uh Hogwarts Legacy
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remember that it broke records because
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people refused to be guilted out of
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playing this game Oh you're a bigot if
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you support JK Rowling in the Harry
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Potter Wizarding World Nope We didn't
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have any of that right and now you're
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seeing the same thing happen to games
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like Kingdom Hearts where the fan base
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we're just going to keep rolling on All
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right we're gonna roll our eyes at this
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article and we're just gonna keep
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playing anyway because Kingdom Hearts is
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a beloved franchise that lots of people
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enjoy because here's the truth guys We
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don't need game journalists to tell us
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what we should be offended by We don't
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Okay we can decide that for ourselves So
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to wrap this up no Sora doesn't need to
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understand love the way that this writer
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for this article wants him to Nope Link
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is not secretly a non-binary symbol
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that's always been queer and is against
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gender norms And no you're not a bad
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person for enjoying these characters
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just as they are The gamer is not
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serving the gaming community They're
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serving their own ideology and expecting
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us to just consume not along how they
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drag beloved characters into identity
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debates and they you know stuff that
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they were never written for They were
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never intended to be part of identity
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debates But anyways guys let me know
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what you think Do you feel like game
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journalism has lost the plot are you
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tired of articles like this that care
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more about rewriting characters than
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respecting the original vision drop your
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thoughts below And as always don't
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forget to like that video if this
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resonated with you And don't forget to
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subscribe so you don't miss the next
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video Appreciate all you for being part
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of my community Keep playing the games
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you love Keep thinking for yourselves
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And I'll catch you on the next one Thank
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you so much for watching As always peace
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