If you guys are unaware CD PROJEKT RED and Cyberpunk 2077 are currently facing backlash based on an in game advertisement which can be seen clearly in their new RTX featured images from NVIDIA highlighting it’s ray tracing functionality. It features a woman in a body suit of some kind with a outline of male genitals underneath. It’s been widely criticized as being edgy at the expense of transgender people. One of the biggest outlashes comes from a certain individual from twitter, but I’m going to leave the name blurred out for reasons I will explain later.
Now as far as I know this individual creates online stories via Twine that are of an erotic nature, and they feature transgendered artwork at times. Now according to her in these tweets she says this “I have an erotica twine with two trans girls with male genitalia, but I weave their genitals in a way that feels feminine soft and affirming. There’s no shock value here.
She goes on to say if Cyberpunk 2077 treated girl dicks just as another facet of life it would be fine.
Before I get to my personal thoughts we have a response from the artist Kasia Redesiuk who created some of these ads and the mix it up ad in question. She says that the corporations in Cyberpunk mean that marketing is more overt and aggressive. She mentions that hypersexualization is apparent everywhere and in our ads there are many examples of hypersexualized women, men and people in between.
It was a conscious choice on our end to show that in this world, you are fighting against the corporations and these advertisements.
Now CDPR is hypersexualixing everyone, that’s one of the points of a constrictive cyberpunk world. They aren’t leaving behind any sexual preferences, and in this vain this are treating everyone with equality by having them all mistreated in the world of cyberpunk.
If they didn’t hypersexual transgender people, and transgender people only, would this individual still have a problem with it? Likely and it’s no secret judging by her entire twitter feed which largely panders to negative outrage hive mind mentalities without putting forward anything constructive.
This isn’t an attack on you personally, this is the world of cyberpunk, an attack on the entire way we live as a society. People are becoming so jaded that they think everything that doesn’t latch onto the status quo of the way they frame things in their head is an all-out assault or provocation of their beliefs.
I have the firm belief that we can all live our lives the way we want. As long as we don’t encroach on another people’s personal space both physically and metaphorically and try to james Charles their ass, I don’t really care what people do and in fact I think its good to celebrate diversity without it turning into some sort of pissing contest on having a superior sexual preference.
No one criticizes art if it’s a mother breastfeeding because if you did you would look like an asshole who is trying to stand on some sort of moral highground made of sand. But we can criticize literal art and advertisements in a game where the whole point of the world is that these images are perpetuated by corporations.
These attacks on CDPR are from a vocal minority of out-rage culturists, and although I’m sort of feeding into what these vocal minorities like, these videos are few and far between for me because I generally don’t want to give people like this a platform, which is why I’ve blurred out the names. This is their modus d operandi, to latch to the latest hottest thing and bash the living hell out of it to get notoriety, publicity and attention.
These are the same kind of people who go to a restaurant, order a coke and when the waitress asks if Pepsi is okay gets all bent out of shape and condescending and write a poor review on Yelp afterwards.
By seeing the world through your bias lens, you’re just confirming the tropes of cyberpunk.
All the ads are over the top. This is a stifling marketing environment where you are suffocated by neon imagery and product placement. That’s the whole point.
This has less to do with sexual issues or their personal sexuality being under fire and more to do with the volatility of some people. If you do end up finding the individual who said this, compare and contrast how many tweets of hers are negative compared to positive. Glass half empty mentalities pushing their own agendas at the expense of hardworking artists who have to defend their craft.
There’s Rumors of journalists and media boycotting the game. They can try and if they do, well just buy 2 extra copies on GOG and fully support CDPR in silence. We don’t have to Fight fire with fire.
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