#boycott stuff

Statement from Overwolf

...Okay, first of all, this whole statement is sadly nothing but them taking the same exact route as before: misdirecting & changing the narrative to only be about "victims" when their Home Support initiative is partnered with the ILF, an openly Zionist organization. This isn't about innocent parties only when they're partnered with an organization that contributes directly towards IDF Military Intelligence. All of the money from the fund goes to the ILF's bank account to distribute, per their own FAQ page. And even without that, the association alone is enough to boycott. Overwolf and Curseforge cannot be "clean of politics" while their CEO partners with and therefore directly supports Zionist parties.

Screenshots directly from Home Support website & ILF website

This statement overall stinks because it puts the blame fully onto people with legitimate concerns by calling them all harassers. Have some people gone too far towards creators? 100%. I know that well. But Overwolf is clearly using that to deflect off of themselves, and this is why it never should have been done in the first place. Y'all focused on the wrong shit- the smaller targets instead of the big ones, and the wrong claim that they're directly funding the IDF with CF revenue, and now they're doing exactly what I said they would: once again using the fact that that's not technically true to weasel out of people's concerns. They even directly call out the fact that it's misinformation like I said they would! They clarified fucking nothing, they repeated the same shit they already said because they know they can. We need to change the focus of the boycott so that they are forced to address their actual wrongdoing! Stop spending all your time sending threatening messages on anon and instead spread factual information with sources and reach out to creators in good faith effort to get them to speak without the fear of being attacked. They will stay silent as long as the negative consequences (financially & socially) is all on them and not Overwolf & EA.

Home Support:

ILF website (zionism + IDF connection):

Overwolf & CF Support statements saying home support doesn't fund the IDF:

What I think could be a good idea is to get a creator that is really big on board in boycotting anything that the sims team puts out - the one that first comes to mind is plumbella, but lilsimsie had a livestream where she gathered funds for the PCRF, so she could be a good one too. I think that youtube is our best chance at getting the boycott started in any widespread way.

Another thing I've talking about with friends is finding people who play other EA games to spread the word about curseforge - I've seen many posts here on tumblr but nothing over at twitter.

Thanks for the suggestions, nonny! These are great ideas. Youtubers like plumbella and lilsimsie are closely affiliated with EA, and if someone like them were to do/say something in regards to a boycott, it would likely have a huge impact. I'm not up to date with simstubers as a whole since I mostly stick to tumblr for sims stuff, but sharing the terms of the boycott with them when they're finalized would be a good step. I don't know if they'd do it or not, but since you mentioned lilsimsie's PCRF livestream, there's some hope there I feel.

Oop just saw this after answering your last one- and honestly, you're right nonny. If this is what the community is gonna do, it needs to go farther, it needs to go all the way.

And as for your note about it being easy to come for creators... let's be honest, it's not even easy for people to do that. Most of the posts calling out creators for using cf are vague, and absolutely never mention the biggest names on the platform- such as members of the featured mod squad (turbodriver, mizoreyuki, sixam, felixandre, harrie, sentate, rusty, etc) and other well loved creators (miiko, qicc, arethabee, twistedcat, ah00b, dogsill, nsw, deaderpool, littlemssam, basemental, chingyu, icemunmun, lumpinou, twistedmexi, simrealist, syboulette, lot51, etc). Probably because they're afraid of being blocked & losing access to the cc/associated clout, or being attacked by stans. But these creators have literal hundreds of thousands of downloads on CF, yet you never see their names. I think the only person I've seen mentioned by name is imvikai, which I get the feeling a lot of people aren't as fond of for some reason to begin with (plus they put their CF links in a shady way) and lilili-sims, who also has a history of being harassed so that was pretty easy for people. And well, me of course, but that's a given lmfao. It is much, much easier to go on anon and complain than it is to risk starting shit with a big creator or offending a "friend". I've seen this a million times with the paywall issue and it continues on with this.