Let's call it what it is: Gaslighting. Games media has gotten really comfortable doing it to the public since you-know-when in o-14.<br><br>One very blatant example was The Last of Us 2 where journos all the way to Jim Sterling were pushing HARD the narrative that Joel was a hateful disgusting unlikable character *even in the first game*. Cue EFAP going over a Jimquisition video of them ranting how much they hate and have always hated Joel... Then Mauler pulls up Jim's old review of TLOU1 and paragraphs about how Joel is a great character.<br><br>As Rags said "But this was in a reality written before we needed to push how cool Abby is."