the fact that “hyper-marketable indie horror game aimed at children and youtubers who make videos for children” is like a whole genre now is kinda fucked right like what’s up with that
Every few months someone makes a game called like Scrimbly Bimbly’s Wacky Silly Funhouse where you just kind of walk around a dark room for a bit and theres vaguely spooky writing on the walls like “DONT BELIEVE HIS LIES” and then the main monster of the game looks like this
and then within like a week my niece is playing roblox clones of it on her ipad and theres plushies of scrimbly in every gamestop and the devs are on twitter like We’;re making a Scrimbly tv show !! And the only person over the age of 7 who has ever thought about their game is the game theory guy because he needs to make a video about how scrimbly connects to the 1962 cuban missile crisis and theres like 80 scrimbly spinoffs that aren’t even pretending to be horror games anymore so they’re just sort of a normal kid’s games with a slightly fucked up looking animal like the concept of “ironic childish imagery in horror game” mutated into “Actually, this is just literally for children, and we are trying to get as much money out of those children as possible”
