The discussion around Seraphine has diluted in the wildest most stupid ways just to I guess AVOID the whole topic of how Riot the company launched a marketing campaign based on predating on parasocial relationships with a whole ass comic PROMOTING THEM, that particularly targeted
vulnerable population and commodified both mental health advocacy in a cheap parody of it and lgbt rep in one of the the most disingenous queerbaiting stunts I’ve seen to date. Like. We love not to see it apparently
Comrade Seraphine is a problem for what she embodies and implies in the future of marketing too. This is a no-responsibility tool, it as a tool can do whatever and the team in charge of it is the one deciding where the limit is and clearly it can be pushed kind of far
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