What is it about games like Mouthwashing, Undertale, etc that brings out the craziest fuckers on twitter?
I imagine it's popular amongst the fanfiction spaces for being amateur writing that gained notoriety. They also have the sort of themes that the younger outsider artist groups tend to gravitate towards. Usually depictions of emotional traumas and melodrama with fantastical conflicts.
Some people are into weird stuff
They have stories which represent complex emotional struggles as simple black and white external struggles which are easy for autists to digest. Especially Undertale.
>>726734859Also, importantly, they present the stories framed through familiar and fun concepts like video games and science fiction. The world of Undertale is essentially canonicalized as a video game with all it's game rules being a part of the story. Mouthwashing similarly takes place in a fun exotic space setting and has a several story elements that are tied to the rules of how the space ship works. Autists love following the logic of rulesets, and it's mainly what makes the traumas in these stories so digestible for them since the conflicts are playing out in accordance with said game rules.
>>726732805troons
>>726733923So what exactly do grownups read about that triggers their brain? War conflicts about nazis, more political drama and cookbooks?
>>726737632Yeah, typically. Stuff that plays into their insecurities about whether or not anyone is listening to them. Which is why political virtue signaling is also really popular among discourse.
>>726732805The examples you brought up are barely games and thus have a low barrier for entry
>>726732805They're good and the music is great so the autism goes overdrive.Same with Sonic
