This Game Exposed The Worst of Humanity

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-01

[00:00:00]All right, you pelicans. Now, I've seen some absolutely cooked things in my time, but the controversy that has erupted over an innocent game about a space dad and his adopted robot daughter is proof that we need to shut the internet down and start all over again.

[00:00:13]>> What are you on about? I thought people were loving this game.

[00:00:16]>> Yeah, mate, the normal people are, but the weirdos on the internet are the reason we can't have nice things, remember? So, grab a cold one because this story starts with a cabal of PDF files on Reddit and goes all the way up to a supposed government conspiracy to repopulate the entire planet. Of course it does. All right, then, let's do this.

[00:00:35]So, before we get to the government mind control stuff, you need to understand what Pragmata actually is. Because if you were to just play the game for yourself, the internet meltdown makes absolutely zero sense.

[00:00:45]>> Yeah, I mean, the trailers to me just look like another massive flex for Capcom's graphics department.

[00:00:49]>> Mate, the RE engine has been spitting out bangers ever since Resident Evil 7.

[00:00:53]Anyways, in the game, you play as this average salt of the earth astronaut named Hugh. And when you suddenly find yourself stranded on a moon base being hunted down by a rogue AI, your only chance at salvation comes in the form of an innocent little robot named Diana, who quickly turns from an ally into something pure that must be protected at all costs.

[00:01:12]>> So, it's basically just another dad simulator, like The Last of Us, with way less fungal infections.

[00:01:17]>> Hold on, mate. Speaking of fungal infections, I've seen that cream in your medicine cabinet, and I don't want you touching my stuff anymore.

[00:01:22]>> Hey, you don't have the right to go through my stuff. Anyways, Pragmata becomes a beautifully crafted emotional story about a father figure protecting his new daughter. It's pure, it's wholesome, and it's designed to hit you right in the paternal instincts.

[00:01:34]>> Okay, so how the hell does that lead to a massive online controversy?

[00:01:37]>> Because, you bloody barnacle, remember the internet is good at two things: giving us unbridled amounts of X-rated material and ruining absolutely anything pure so that we might never believe in hope again.

[00:01:47]>> Jesus Christ, that's a dark outlook. Are you off your meds again?

[00:01:51]>> Piss off, you're not my mum. So, this brings us back to the beginning and how this game exposed the worst of humanity.

[00:01:56]Because before this game even came out, the controversy started bubbling in the darkest corners of the internet.

[00:02:01]>> Reddit?

[00:02:02]>> Bloody oath, mate. So, this story starts out with a group of absolute sickos and one poor Reddit mod.

[00:02:07]>> I can't believe you're about to try and make me feel sorry for a Reddit mod.

[00:02:11]>> I know, it feels unnatural. Kind of like cheering for the tax office. But what seems like years ago in this controversy, February 2026, months before the game had actually launched, disturbing comments started trickling in on one of the Pragmata subreddits that would eventually build to such an insane level that the whole subreddit was declared a biohazard and scrubbed from the entire internet.

[00:02:31]>> What happened? Did they leak the ending or something?

[00:02:34]>> Worse, mate. A bunch of basement-dwelling neckbeards started posting sexualized content of the 8-year-old robot protagonist, Diana.

[00:02:40]>> Wait, the little Android girl? That's that's [ __ ] up.

[00:02:44]>> Exactly. She's wearing a puffy jacket and clutching a holographic cat. But these PDF files in training took one look at her and their brains just immediately flatlined. Just take a read of some of these comments. Does liking Diana make me a pedo? Diana from Pragmata has been censored. [music] Instead of wearing spats, she now has some weird gray mesh under her coat.

[00:03:04]Said coat has been made significantly larger. I miss the days where we could see girls' panties in video games. What the hell is wrong with people? Yuck.

[00:03:13]>> I know, right? One bloke even wrote a 5,000-word essay, which you could basically summarize as, "Well, she looks eight, but technically, she's still a robot, so it's totally fine." You sure about that?

[00:03:25]You sure about that?

[00:03:26]>> Jesus Christ, honestly, anyone who types that sentence needs to have their hard drive immediately seized by the feds.

[00:03:32]>> Mate, I've got two little girls of my own, and if I ever caught a bloke talking about them in that way, like these absolute gronks were talking about a digital [music] 8-year-old child, I'd be in prison for burying them under the patio next to that garden gnome you gave me. [music] >> Dude, I'm going to need a shower after this video. Capcom is giving us this beautiful high-budget game about family, [music] and these guys emerge from their goon caves intent on ruining it for everyone.

[00:03:54]>> It's a bloody tragedy, mate. You've got these brilliant Japanese developers spending thousands of hours rendering realistic moon dust and emotional facial expressions, and meanwhile, [music] gamerboy69 from his mum's basement is furiously typing with one hand trying [music] to start a petition to give an 8-year-old robot jiggle physics.

[00:04:11]>> Dude, can we stop talking about this?

[00:04:12]This is really creeping me out. So, what did the Reddit mod do to try and stop this?

[00:04:16]>> Mate, he bloody tried and failed, didn't he? It was like the Battle of Helm's Deep, except Gandalf didn't show up to save everyone from the horde of greasy basement-dwelling neckbeards, so they eventually broke through the castle walls, and the only option left was to go nuclear and scrub the >> entire thing clean. So, the creeps won?

[00:04:32]That's kind of depressing.

[00:04:34]>> They did, mate. It was a dark day for humanity. [music] But here is the absolute craziest part of this whole timeline. As cooked as those PDF files were, they wouldn't prove to be the main boss of this whole controversy.

[00:04:44]>> Wait, you're telling me that there's something worse than that?

[00:04:47]>> Worse? Nah, it's hard to get worse than pedos, but the insanity around this game was just warming up. Because while the creeps online were busy getting their subreddits nuked, the cynical Twitch streamers with their terminally ill political takes were just warming up.

[00:05:00]>> I'm starting to agree with you, mate.

[00:05:01]Maybe we do need to unplug the internet.

[00:05:03]>> Anyways, the game finally launches. It's getting positive reviews, and the people with actual functioning frontal lobes start posting praise about the emotional, heartfelt story and the unique twist on the third-person shooter mechanics. And this is when Hasan [ __ ] enters the chat with another shocking take.

[00:05:20]>> Shocking?

[00:05:21]Oh, I see what you did there. Because he shocks his dog.

[00:05:23]>> Exactly, mate. Because when he's not jerking off to Mao Zedong's Little Red Book, he's charging up all the batteries in his house to absolutely devastate that poor little doggy. Anyways, I don't want to misquote the bloke, so here's what he had to say, and you can judge for yourself. What's really interesting about this is all of these unfuckable losers in the gaming sphere always talk about like starting families and stuff.

[00:05:45]And I don't understand like why this has become a thing that they care about.

[00:05:49]Wait, so he's gatekeeping paternal instincts now, but he doesn't even have a kid.

[00:05:54]>> I know, right? Thanks, Zenu, for that.

[00:05:55]Because this universally loved trope is why people love Joel and Ellie in The Last of Us Part One and why they really hated their portrayal in Part Two. Or why Wolverine and X-23 in Logan worked so well.

[00:06:07]>> Yeah, true. Plus, it taps into a deep biological urge to protect the innocent, and what embodies that more than children, right?

[00:06:13]>> Exactly. The audience wants nothing more than for the selfish, grumpy old man to settle down and take responsibility for something more than himself. So, I still don't get his take. Why is protecting kids for losers?

[00:06:23]>> Because Hasan's brain has algorithm rot, mate. He'd prefer to rack up views telling everyone to redistribute their wealth while he's sitting there in a $2,000 designer t-shirt.

[00:06:32]>> Ah, right. The classic redistribute everyone else's wealth except my own.

[00:06:36]Exactly, mate. It's a terrible take.

[00:06:38]Anyways, back to Pragmata. So, this is when the Twitter maniacs started flooding their timelines with absolute dog [ __ ] It's called X now, mate.

[00:06:45]>> Mate, I am never going to call it that.

[00:06:48]Anyways, check out these cooked takes.

[00:06:50]Watching a fictional kid play with toys for a few seconds and thinking that's what it's like to raise an actual human being is probably a sign you have zero idea what it really looks like being a parent and should not base your decision off a video game character. I feel like this girl character is an objectification [music] of the idealized child. She's pulled right from the patriarchal, white supremacist imagination. What is she on about?

[00:07:13]>> Mate, I have no idea. The word patriarchy has lost all meaning. To these people, it's just become like the boogeyman. It hides behind every corner waiting to jump out and scare you.

[00:07:21]>> True. It's a shame because I feel like there are definitely conversations to have about that small subsection of men who are making society worse for all of us. But when everything becomes patriarchy, like protecting innocent children, it just loses all meaning.

[00:07:33]>> Exactly. If you want to talk about the bloody patriarchy, talk about the Taliban wanting to lower the age of marriage to 9 years old. Anyways, here's some more terrible takes. Childless men do not have paternal instincts [music] the way that childless women have maternal instincts. Men are not nurturers. Men do not gush over cute kids in public. Men do not have baby fever. If a man wants to possess a child for any reason other than it being a product of his own lineage, he's likely a predator. Are these people okay? Do do do they need to be checked into a ward or something? Terminal brain rot, mate.

[00:08:04]Not to mention, most of the people outraged about this game don't even have bloody kids.

[00:08:07]>> Right. So, taking parenting advice from these people would be like getting heart surgery from a tarot card reader.

[00:08:13]>> Exactly, mate. Or getting your car fixed by a donkey. By a donkey? What are you talking about? You know, because they don't have opposable thumbs. How would they be able to hold the bloody tools? I think my example was better, mate.

[00:08:24]>> Ah, whatever, you wanker. Anyways, as you can see, the internet is absolutely frying people's brains.

[00:08:29]>> we should travel back in time and assassinate the person who invented the smartphone at this point.

[00:08:34]>> Yeah, not a bad idea. Because it sadly seems that if a piece of media is actually wholesome or optimistic today, the internet either tries to inappropriately sexualize it or aggressively mock it to hide the fact that they're actually dead inside.

[00:08:46]>> Okay, so we've got the creeps on Reddit and the cynics on Twitter and Twitch, but where the hell does the government mind control psyop come in?

[00:08:54]>> I am so glad you asked, mate. Because the internet didn't just get mad at Hasan. They counterattacked, and in their desperation to prove him wrong, they swung the pendulum so far in the opposite direction that they birthed the wildest conspiracy theory in gaming history.

[00:09:07]>> I'm scared to see where this goes next at this point, but go on, then.

[00:09:11]>> All right, mate. So, to understand this, you need a quick history lesson. So, across the pond in Japan, they're dealing with a massive demographic crisis right now.

[00:09:19]>> Yeah, the declining birth rates. I think I've read about that.

[00:09:21]>> Exactly. Now, a few years ago, this massive meme started circulating online about the former Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. People joked that his dying wish was for the Japanese media to subliminally brainwash lonely nerds into wanting them to get married and have [clears throat] kids.

[00:09:38]>> Wait. Why?

[00:09:39]>> The theory was that if you show gamers enough cute anime daughters, they'll eventually go outside, touch grass, and repopulate the earth.

[00:09:46]>> You've got to be kidding me. So, they think Pragmata is literally state-sponsored propaganda to make gamers procreate.

[00:09:53]>> Bloody oath, they do. And this is when the tin foil hat-wearing wombats went into overdrive trying to prove the game was a literal psychological operation.

[00:10:01]You can just say sci-op, mate. Shut up, I'm talking. So anyways, these maniacs cracked open about their 10th Red Bull for the day and then they started compiling some evidence like they were some C-tier true crime podcaster. What kind of evidence? Do you actually have any receipts for this? It sounds too insane to be actually true. Oh, I've got the receipts, mate, and it's completely unhinged. For starters, there was a viral tweet that racked up nearly 6 million impressions that explicitly said Pragmata is a sci-op to counter decades of anti-natalist propaganda and bring up the global birth rates. 6 million impressions. People actually agreed with that? Oh, it's completely unhinged. Then people tried to claim that Diana was meticulously programmed to trigger the maximum amount of paternal instinct. One bloke on X, sorry Twitter, I hate the name X, even wrote a massive thread claiming that zero gravity mechanics on the moon somehow represent the weightlessness and lack of grounding of a childless life. That is the biggest reach I've ever heard. Mate, Mr. Fantastic couldn't even reach that far.

[00:10:59]But the internet completely ate it up.

[00:11:01]They genuinely convinced themselves that this simple cute story was actually a government weapon deployed to combat falling birth rates. So did it work? Are gamers suddenly rushing out to start families? Of course not. Mate, you can beam subliminal family messaging into gamers for weeks and they still couldn't be bothered getting out of their chairs and talking to an actual woman down at the local pub. Yeah, true. Mate, this video has been incredibly depressing so far. Pedos, declining populations, the demonization of father figures. Give me some optimism here. Well, how's this for a slice of fried gold? The game sold over 1 million copies in the first 48 [music] hours despite the controversy.

[00:11:36]These are huge numbers for a brand new IP and the irony of the situation is that all the neckbeards and terminally online white college women probably just guaranteed that the game gets a sequel because of all the attention they brought it. For real? So Thanos didn't win? No, mate, Thor chopped his head off. Anyways, video's over. Piss off.