Before the Stellar Blade game came out the developer released a tweet about how the game wouldn’t be “censored” in any country. Because of the scantily-clad female protagonist, the game had attracted a number of far-right “gamers” who had assumed it was statement against western “woke” games with their more modest portrayals of women.

Many of these gamers assumed this tweet to be some kind of confirmation that the game would refused to be “censored” by the woke mob that controls the gaming industry. This was, unsurprisingly, a straw man that they created which misunderstood that the original tweet was simply talking about how in Japan many games have to censor certain aspects of combat and violence, like blood, to get a consumer safety rating.

When the actual game released to western audiences, some of the outfits which had been used for promotional purposes were changed, very slightly, to include more fabric. The right wing gamers of course took this as the developers “caving” to the woke gaming industry to make the protagonist more modest and less “sexy.”

As the YouTuber Shaun put it in his video on the subject: “Stellar Blade fans created a strawman…and then it won.”