https://www.businessinsider.com/hbos-the-last-of-us-episode-three-review-bombed-homophobic-2023-1
Neil Druckmann, the co-creator of the series who also developed the video game, told The Hollywood Reporter that Bill and Frank's relationship "went over a lot of people's heads" in the game.
"At the time, [the subtlety is] what helped get it in," he said. "It's sad to say, but it would have been controversial otherwise."
Part One of the game is coming to PC soon - the Steam reviews are going to be a fucking shitshow.
Chud fuckery has even infected the normally chill comments sections of a few torrent sites. Comments for this episode are horrendous.
I forget the show, but there was one I was tormenting way back and one commenter kept reviewing each episode in the review section and the replies were always that it's meant to comment on whether the torrent is having issues, if the quality is good, if it's actually a virus etc. Not like, reviewing the show itself. It was pretty funny.
I like vague comments about the episode. Stumbling on stuff from 14 years ago that's like "wow very relevant" and trying to decipher what it could be referencing is fun.
I find most torrent trackers I frequent there's at least some pushback to CHUDery (and normaly chuds are the most vocal generally). For this episode tho there's one comment about how the person cried during the episode and a dozen comments complaining that the codec used doesn't work on their TV lmao.
Oh aye, there are a few people who bite back but it stinks when you click on comments and you see a wall of slurs and misery.