truth be told i haven't played overwatch for awhile, but in light of *gestures nebulously but damningly* all that, i'm no longer going to be updating this blog, and i'm no longer going to be engaging with ovw fan content. i can think of no justification for continuing to engage with a blizzard property, even in a purely fandom context, that doesn't feel like a deeply pathetic excuse for self-serving complicity to me. the art can't be separated from the artist on this one. this company sexually harassed a woman to death. faffing about as if nothing happened is complicity.
the fanart is gone; the memes are gone. i don't want this blog to just be another repository of content for other fandom bloggers to pick over. the overwatch critical tag is staying, because although its scope has always been a bit limited (and somewhat petty), i hope some might find insight into how blizzard's gestures toward diversity have always been superficial, performative, blinkered, and often outright racist/sexist/otherwise bigoted in their own right. maybe that can be newly analyzed through the prism of what occurs behind the scenes.
i might come back to this game if activision blizzard burns down and the ip gets sold to literally anyone else. until then, goodbye.
