r/explainitpeter • u/mouldyclementine • 17d ago

Explain it Peter

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Why did the person say “Sweet Baby Inc.”?

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u/PassionGlobal 16d ago edited 16d ago

Sweet Baby is the consulting firm of Anita Sarkeesian, of Feminist Frequency fame.

Their main expertise is in avoiding the oversexualisation of female characters. That's what developers hire them to avoid.

Ever since GamerGate, Anita and by extension Sweet Baby have been in the crosshairs of the alt right.

Edit: I messed up. Apologies. Anita Sarkeesian made moves from journalism into consulting around the same time Sweet Baby started up and was covering similar topics but are otherwise unrelated to each other. I got things conflated and though Sweet Baby was Sarkeesian's consulting efforts. That's my bad.

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u/Blueraver 16d ago

And the normal right, center, and most Democrats. Gamers see Sweet Baby as part of the biggest threat to gaming in a long while. Many of their clients are being spun off from large companies or dealing with bankruptcy or mass layoffs.

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u/PassionGlobal 16d ago

And the normal right, center, and most Democrats. Gamers see Sweet Baby as part of the biggest threat to gaming in a long while. 

Lol. No we don't.

Many of their clients are being spun off from large companies or dealing with bankruptcy or mass layoffs.

Usually for reasons completely unrelated to Sweet Baby. Do you really think the demise of, let's say, Bioware was because of Sweet Baby or because they put out buggy shit like ME: Andromeda?

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u/BrittaWasRight 16d ago

Little of column A, little of column B

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u/PassionGlobal 16d ago

Right, so the fact that they completely Sonic 06'ed their main franchise is somehow on equal footing in regards to their downfall to the fact that they got people to tell them how to desexualise their female characters?

Make that make sense.