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reposting this bc i thought it was really sweet

edit: added an ID by @starberry-skies <3

[Image Decription. A Reddit post labeled as "Discussion", with the title: "Splatoon and LGBT". The post reads:

What about splatoon makes it such a common place to find LGBT individuals? I feel like it's pretty often I'm seeing either gay or trans related community posts and it makes me think that it's pretty common in the community. I'm curious as to why...

The post ends there. A reply by AwfulDjinn reads:

in addition to what everyone else mentioned (the lack of voice chat, the more gender neutral character designs esp in Splat3, etc) I think a big part of it is the way the whole vibe of the series really focuses on self expression and being true to oneself. there's this whole sort of theme of "do what you want, wear what you want, all that matters is that you're Fresh, and Freshness is just a state of mind"

that really resonates with LGBT+ people for obvious reasons that and the fact that it's explicitly a future, post apocalyptic setting... but a very bright and hopeful one? humanity is gone, but our dreams still live on, and they're trying to fix what humanity got wrong and be better than we were. when you're a marginalized person living in the modern world, that's a very comforting idea. that no matter how messed up and broken the world may get, there's always hope, and there's always people who want to make things better.

The reply has 773 upvotes and 8 awards.