Well what you are asking me to explain is not exactly suited for this forum. It might surprise you, but the critical discussion of marketing and its impact on society is something that takes up numerous books from many domains of interest.

I’m not sure it is the “success” that is troubling to the poster, but rather the ethics of these businesses.

“Should they be making money off this while existing in what’s basically a gray area on YouTube’s endless digital frontier, wrangling content that other people worked hard to make? That’s an incredibly thorny question.”

Pretty sure what happened was someone realized it would make the higher ups happy to include it on the list to generate clicks through controversy.

Polarizing and Worst are somewhat different categories. Sure it means people out there think it’s bad, but it’s also a big caution light to anyone feeling the need to double-down on their position.

“The products are often good, at least for a few uses.

I don’t know who Jessica Yu is, but this certainly doesn’t endear me to her. 

I generally start to read this stories with a bit of skepticism, but wow, this is egregious.

I don’t personally get around to playing as many games now as I once did, but one of the games I did play this year was one of the most fun, challenging, and well-designed games I’ve ever played and it isn’t on this list at all: MO: Astray. It even had a pretty cool story.

Of course they are. There isn’t anything uniquely controversial here.

I haven’t read as many comics this decade as in the past, but I did just recently start reading the MTMTE comics and was surprised how good they really were. 

The Olivia James Nancy run has certainly been noteworthy and fun, but I don’t think I’d put it on a best list. 

No Clowes or Ware either but it’s just a list.

I don’t have much to say about Death Stranding spoilers but I will say that Death Stranding contains spoilers for most 90s anime in the post-Tokyo subway sarin attack period.

Fortunately I live in a place where trends like this don’t really take root (and therefor don’t really know what is being discussed here), but I dig the art.

It doesn’t exactly mean that. A not-insignificant number of people likely saw Logan after it was in theaters. I’m one of them.

That Jesus is a Communist.

It’s interesting how generational human trends are. I suppose media is a bit more complex than other things due to new technologies and consumption patterns, but it’s still a bit shocking to see people so convinced by marketing and public discourse that something new has been a game-changer.

I disagree. The type of racism contained in Lovecraft’s work is not problematic to adapt if it is taken for the Victorian Romanticism that it is. In fact, it can be easily re-routed directly into the themes of madness and ignorance that is of thematic importance in most of his stories.

The issue isn’t the amount of content. It is how poorly designed the game is.