No, it wasn't.

Look, I know big numbers are hard and human brains don't want to parse them, but come on.

You're talking about an article on Dexerto, a medium that I'm sure has done great work between its founding and my just realizing they exist right now. There are a few other articles online, most in smaller sites or in aggregators.

You are talking about a massive social-media-meets-gaming-platform the size of Twitter on a good day, orders of magnitude bigger than the reach any of this crap got. This is nothing. It's a PR stunt from a few youtubers, which I hate that I have now focused on enough to understand.

I agree that it's designed to drum up attention. Just not that this attention is meant to be effective at anything at all beyond, one suspects, driving viewership, because it sure as hell isn't targeting anything that may cause any action.

Maybe this is why people don't pay attention to Roblox despite being as large as Steam. The dissonance is just too large. It sucks, because despite the remarkable trivialization of the issue there should be way more eyeballs on this. Real eyeballs. Eyeballs attached to hands holding pens that can sign proper regulations, or at least scare some knee-jerky intermediaries.

Somehow a thousand assholes with customer support addresses managed to ban half of the smut on Steam, but these people figured out they'd gather a hundred times as many signatures and point them at the one person in the entire planet guaranteed to ignore them.

I am tired. I don't want to think about this anymore.