Virtue Signal: The Game triggered Social Justice Warriors to no end. During its Kickstarter campaign the game managed accrue enough attention to get funded, but then afterward it managed to get banned from conventions. Incel Riot Studios decided to do a follow-up expansion for the card game, but the creator has been unable to promote it due to getting banned from some social media platforms.
In a post published on April 25th, 2020, Incel Riot Studios’ William Daleabout informed the community that the “war is over” because there was no way to promote the new expansion for the game.
Daleabout wrote…
“Well folks I guess this experiment in testing the limits of satire has ended in failure.
“Starting about a month ago all our social media accounts have continuously been banned and suspended and re-suspended, and our ad buys have all been denied. Satire is now harassment, apparently, and is no longer allowed.
“The expansion at this point is about 75% finished, but with no way now to promote it there doesn’t seem to be any point in continuing.
“Anyway thanks to everyone for their support. We genuinely enjoyed the past 6 months.”
On Facebook the suspension came from mocking a pink-haired Liberal with clear-rimmed problem glasses.
Incel Riot Studios didn’t post any other messages that may have resulted in them getting nuked from other platforms, but we all know that anytime you criticize, mock, or satirize the Culture Communists and the Dunghole Dilettantes, your time on those platforms is numbered.
They still have their Twitter account but they don’t have many followers and haven’t posted much of anything. They only just joined Twitter in March of 2020. The only tweet they have up is one acknowledging that they were using Twitter for testing pourposes.
Just testing out an app.
Here’s Ebola-chan fan art I made 6 years ago that ended up getting featured in BBC Asia for “raising awareness.” pic.twitter.com/pb5LF7kxhV
— Incel Riot Studios (@IncelRiot) March 12, 2020
However, it doesn’t take much to get banned from Twitter, especially if you post facts like there are only two genders or that non-binary people don’t exist.
Many of the commenters on the Kickstarter page encouraged Daleabout to keep going, saying that being censored “is the story” and that he should use it to raise awareness about platform censorship affecting indie creators like himself.
He also managed to get booked on the Nick Rekieta livestream to talk up Virtue Signal: The Game and the SJWs trying to deplatform the project. Although, I’m not sure which episode he’s appearing on.
The major issue is that there just aren’t any major websites willing to fight back against the scourge. Every major media institution and its subsidiary is Left-wing at this point, and you have to jump through hoops and tip-toe around obstacles to say or do anything in the media space that isn’t inherently Left-wing.
Maybe Daleabout will take up his community’s suggestions and attempt a grassroots campaign to get the word out about the expansion pack for Virtue Signal: The Game. Maybe he can hit up Dick Masterson or Mr. Metokur or The Ralph Retort to get some traction going. Heck, at this point, now that Incel Riot Studios is banned from social media they may as well hit up the Killstream and go all-in on promoting the game any which way they can.
[Update:] Daleabout made a follow-up post on the official website, explaining that they’ve been banned, suspended, and re-suspended, from several places, including Amazon. He writes…
“We are banned from BoardGameGeeks everything, both the Facebook group and the site itself. Our page is still there, but we rely on others to update it for us.
“Our Facebook group flew under the radar for a long time, but as soon as we broke 1000 subscribers we started getting banned regularly for satirizing SJWs and SJW culture–which is what the whole game is about, so.
“Facebook and Twitter will now no longer run our ads. That video you all saw? Now forbidden.
“Amazon has denied us a seller account three times. You can purchase Mein Kampf, The Turner Diaries, and the Communist Manifesto on Amazon, but not Virtue Signal the Game. There is a line, apparently, and we have crossed it.
“OrcaCon banned us from their convention as well, but that’s more funny than anything else.”
(Thanks for the news tip Doson The Great)