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Amelia: The Last Rose of Albion

Michael Minnott
@MichaelMinnott
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I assume some of you are familiar with the video game created by the UK government to warn kids about the dangers of "White Supremacy™". It features a character, Amelia, who is a Bad Influence on the player. Well, someone used AI to make a parody in the style of an anime rom-com movie trailer:

If you're not familiar with this recent news story, you can easily catch up. It's been covered extensively by Carl Benjamin and The Lotus Eaters. Count Dankula also covered it. You can watch their commentaries on YouTube to get the gist of things.

The whole debacle is simultaneously hideous and laughably inept; both at the same time. We may laugh, but it sadly also points to dark days for Britain.

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  • TBA@RobtGilsdorf

    The game-makers are going down in flames. Amelia the character is under new management and will join Pepe as one of the most powerful mocking memes ever to emerge from popular culture.

    The memelords are just warming up.

  • Front Seat Cat@FrontSeatCat

    I don't follow video games or latest British creation, but this is interesting. Without having to watch it, could you elaborate a bit on how you know the gov created it, what the specific quoted message is, and I assume this is new? What are they really trying to do? The chosen name is curious -

  • Michael Minnott@MichaelMinnott
    ReplyingtoFront Seat Cat

    Front Seat Cat (View Comment):

    I don’t follow video games or latest British creation, but this is interesting. Without having to watch it, could you elaborate a bit on how you know the gov created it, what the specific quoted message is, and I assume this is new? What are they really trying to do? The chosen name is curious –

    The name of the videogame is called PATHWAYS and it was created by the UK Home Office, published on their government website. It raised a lot of eyebrows for being nakedly propagandistic.

    The character in the game, Amelia, was a "bad influence" trying to seduce the player into various "white supremacists" activities. If the player chose poorly, he/she would have to undergo re-education via struggle-session.

    However, the Amelia character was somewhat alluring, leading to a multitude of memes online turning her into the true hero and sexy siren.

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