Games 4Diversity, a Dutch gaming firm that helped push a game about a magical drag performer saving beefy men in their underwear to children, is attempting to silence the GothicTherapy YouTube channel. This happened after its hosts, MasterOfTheTDS and WritingRaven, exposed the company’s ties to Sweet Baby Inc. and the Powell Group.
(For the sake of transparency: WritingRaven is a contributing writer for That Park Place under the name Raven Redgrave)
A screenshot from Shade Forest – YouTube, Amanda Sparks
In a video released two weeks ago, the husband and wife YouTube duo shone a light on Games 4Diversity and its agenda. The company connects developers with gamers to create DEI-centric games that push very specific narratives pertaining to gender, Pride values, immigration, and more.
It does this by holding game “jams” in which developers and gamers come together to compare thoughts and ideas before ultimately developing a game.
One game it created and detailed in a publicly available video was a mobile side scroller called Amanda Sparks and The Shade Forest. In this game, children were able to take on the role of drag performer Amanda Sparks to save her friends, some of which are scantily clad burly men. The game isn’t rated for Mature audiences, and it goes to great lengths to censor language so that it’s not flagged as age restricted content, which can only mean one thing.
They’re marketing it to children.
EXCLUSIVE: Games [4Diversity] is exploiting KIDS with pride parades and game jams to force their DEI agenda into gaming. This is not about inclusivity. It is blatant manipulation and propaganda, and it needs to stop!
Watch the full exclusive takedown now: (Link to video below) pic.twitter.com/hwM71hBUbH
— MasteroftheTDS (@MasteroftheTDS) November 25, 2024
The company was also revealed to have ties to Sweet Baby Inc., the narrative design firm started by Bowser enthusiast Kim Belair that seeks to inject DEI and ESG into just about every video game. The idea for Sweet Baby Inc. came to Belair when she was playing Mass Effect 2 and decided that allowing players to choose the race and gender of their protagonists was problematic.
Kim Belair via BlackGirlGamers YouTube
She noted feeling negatively about the fact that she was witnessing her black female character speaking to another black character and not everyone was having that experience. Since Sweet Baby has been exposed following the disastrous rollout of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the studio has come under fire for its messaging and mission from gamers who just want to enjoy escapism without modern day identity politics.
MasterOfTheTDS pointed out that on the official press page for Games 4Diversity, there’s a write up in which company chairman Menno Dean is highlighted and praised as a “game changer” by Gamesindustry.biz. This company at one point employed Belair. It’s also run by The Powell Group, a company that recently entered into a partnership with Sweet Baby Inc., then deleted all mention of the narrative consultancy firm from their website and LinkedIn when called out on it.
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After releasing their video, Gothic Therapy was hit with a complaint filed by Gamed 4Diversity.
It appears that individuals associated with Games [4Diversity] have filed a privacy complaint with YouTube regarding both our video and live stream that discussed their activities.
All information shared in our content was publicly accessible. If further action is taken against… pic.twitter.com/SSnpgevCY8
— MasteroftheTDS (@MasteroftheTDS) December 1, 2024
The channel was sent an official notice from YouTube which stated that Games 4Diversity had cited privacy concerns in the complaint. Of course, the video and content Gothic Therapy shared was all publicly available information, so it’s unclear how any of it was a violation of privacy.
This appeared to be nothing more than an attempt to silence the growing YouTube channel and cast the shadow of obscurity once more over the Dutch firm and its actions.
“It appears that individuals associated with Games 4Diversity have filed a privacy complaint with YouTube regarding both our video and live stream that discussed their activities,” MasterOfTheTDS said on X. “All information shared in our content was publicly accessible. If further action is taken against us, we are prepared to contest it. Publicly available information does not violate privacy rights. If such information is displayed on your website, any resulting issues are your responsibility.”
They were also attacked by drag performer Amanda Sparks.
Amanda Sparks, a drag queen tied to Games [4Diversity], a company associated with Sweet Baby Inc., has responded to the criticisms raised by me and @WritingRaven2 about their game aimed at children: pic.twitter.com/w133SjKDLQ
— MasteroftheTDS (@MasteroftheTDS) December 4, 2024
But after these social media attacks, Gothic Therapy looked further into Games 4Diversity and made another connection between the troublesome Dutch firm and Kim Belair’s Sweet Baby Inc.
Eline Muijres, board member of Games 4Diversity, is also a lead producer for The Powell Group.
Eline Muijres, lead producer for The Powell Group, which recently partnered with Sweet Baby Inc., and a board member of Games [4Diversity], has gone protected. pic.twitter.com/q2uobOVTVD
— MasteroftheTDS (@MasteroftheTDS) December 1, 2024
So, it turns out the DEI narrative consultancy world is a lot smaller than most people think it is. Thanks to MasterOfTheTDS and WritingRaven, we can all see that more clearly than ever. These attempts to silence them and darken the spotlight being shone on the industry just shows they and other prominent YouTube channels are pressing against a very raw and newly exposed nerve.
Are you shocked that there’s a deeper connection between Games 4Diversity and Sweet Baby Inc.? Do you believe DEI narrative design firms will continue to exist as the gaming industry looks to the future? Sound off in the comment section below, and let us know!
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I have to say, I think the Bowser-fantasizer herself, Kim Belair (she/her/hers/purple//nineteen/cantaloupe) has really earned her place among the Worst Women in Western Gaming. Culture-wise and conversation-wise, she’s tied with Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian as one of the big three, but I honestly think Kim Belair has dethroned both of those other grifters. If you want to put a name and face to everything wrong with modern Western gaming, look no further than this.
What I find sad is that plenty of women don’t feel this way, but the woke act as though all women are in lockstep, and far too many end up believing it.
Thats why Trump won, woman didnt vote DEI as much as they though, so Trump wiped the floor with Kamala face
One of the things I worry about is genuine misogyny making a comeback because boys being told by the woke that all women are really like woke women. At this point, though, it’s easiest just to wait and let the woke self-destruct, then fix society after.
Too late for that. Men have all but abandoned dating,marriage,college,workforce (10 million men dropped out), military etc.
MGTOW for the win.
Why wont women speak then?
Plenty of women don’t go on sites like this. Raising multiple children and keeping a husband happy is a full time job, and there’s not even enough time to watch the shows you want to catch up on. Beyond that, plenty of women aren’t interested in being whiny Karens and just figure it’s obvious. It’s not like femininity has changed all that much in the last few thousand years.
Only the woke can claim to be for diversity and name a group as such while simultaneously demanding that those with diverse opinions be silenced.
Divide and conquer. Keep the allies on side by making them too weak to act on their own thus easier to control.
It alls come back to the same dirty hole
These SJWs use institutional power to silence critics because they know their positions are indefensible. The consultancy firms are a blessing in disguise because they are a clear indicator of which games you need to avoid.
Wouldn’t you just love to grab ziegler by the ankle and use her body to start beating this greasy-faced bird, in the same fashion of Hulk’s treatment of Loki in the 1st Avengers?
That would require my paw to come into contact with Rachel Zegler. I’m not sure if even priest-blessed sulphuric acid would make me stop being unclean after that.
Beautiful. Brilliant response.
I’m not surprised by those close relationships; they’re a clique with group chats to coordinate and synchronize their narratives, just like fake video game journalists.
Having so much conviction in their belief that they need to hide it from the public is the biggest of red flags for their grift.
Spawns of CRT/DEI are the new standard bearers for modern racism/sexism under the guise of moral superiority.
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