From all the conversations I've seen the 3 big reasons for it being viral are:

1. People, very online millennial libs and lefties specifically, got super pissed about the "foid" part of the name because incels, not realising it has already taken an ironic bend in gen alpha slang.
2. Hot mean girls are a turn on to a lot of people, men and women.
3. It's uncanny how much more fitting a lot of the jabs and snide remarks Malfoy makes in the books feel when coming out of a girl instead of a boy.

I have long been proposing the theory that J.K. Rowling knows fuckall about boy socialization and social dynamics, and essentially made Malfoy a mean girl stereotype by accident, and I am feeling pretty vindicated right about now.

EA makes a lot of money, consistently.

They are also trying to make Riyadh a tourism centre, sportswashing a bunch, getting celebrities to endorse them, they also own a stake in MasterCard.

Just because you can buy a media empire to use it to push an agenda, doesn't mean that anyone who does it necessarily cares to.

No, that is what EA is demonstrably doing because they have a marketing department and are aware of the massive backlash currently happening.

Trump, I will remind you, was a rare case of a republican winning the popular vote.

The western world is actively moving right, last year barely any company publicly celebrated pride, and politicians are actively attempting to distance themselves from being seen as hyperprogressive partisan actors ("woke 1.0 was crazy").

EA has no values beyond money, their owners have no real interest in the social sphere beyond what makes them money, why would they stick their neck out to please a demographic that is consistently becoming less and less popular in the eyes of the general public?

Apt analogy, since both rulership and travel are often unavoidable necessary evils, and improving the means by which either is done is usually worthwhile.

I mean, it clearly didn't, people still somehow want more of it after Andromeda and the company went under.

Considering the argument hinges on whether "skinny" applies equally to the person and the sketch? Kind of a vital point.

Also? Bitching and moaning about artstyles being problematic? Not my definition of fun, but you do you.

Language is a tool for communication. It requires interpretation.

A hammer is a tool for putting nails into things, if you hammer your finger with it instead, you're doing it wrong.

Every person in this thread who objects to the use of the word is proof on its face that this person has at least nicked their finger on the way down.

Works fine with proton-cachyos

From what I've seen from the AI rollout in my company, it's mostly because vibecoders are not coders.

If you give a vague prompt you get basically scratchpad pseudocode quality, but if you have a well defined spec, clear coding standards, etc. you get a passable junior level output, sometimes better if it's a particularly well trodden process like OIDC.

It's not gonna break new ground without direct help/manual coding, but for gap-filling and simple bugs it's become quite reliable at this point, just not in the hands of amateurs.

And of course those cowards don't post links.

It wouldn't just harm them, which means the entire sector would dip, and in those scenarios usually the scummiest company survives better than the competition

Nestle is swiss, this won't do jack shit to them.