What is a "Woke" Game

[Machiavellian]

KLAMarine said:

Machiavellian said:

Hmm, So you are now defining a new definition for woke.  Before it was stuff people did not like, now you are adding advertising to the list as well.  Its not like there are hundreds of ads that advertise to groups of people of different race, genders skin tones etc so why is this any different.  You say it feigns social consciousness but that isn't correct.  What it does is try to sell a feature that Google believes will target a group which is people with dark skin to buy their product. 

The fact you label this as woke seems like you will label anything woke that doesn't advertise to white people.  There are hair products, lotion, food, cloths just to name a few that advertise to non white people so would all of those be considered woke to you as well.

The first photos Google shows in the ad had poor lighting. As a solution, Google sells some feature called real tone on their Pixel phone rather than tell their target audience that cameras need good lighting to take good pictures.

I view this like an insurance salesman selling volcano insurance in an area with no volcano close by. A dishonest salesman will show the horrors of volcano eruptions to their target audience and hide the fact that there is no volcano in the area.

I'm calling Google dishonest in the ad and to top this dishonesty off, they add a fake veneer of social consciousness to their marketing. I find this appeal-to-emotion marketing obnoxious. And while I dislike using the word 'woke', if I had to use it, this ad would qualify as 'woke' in my book.

To answer your question, no. Any product aimed at someone who isn't white is NOT what I consider 'woke'.

It's the deceptive element in Google's ad that I'm offended by.

Even if you believe its deceptive which mind you just about any advertisement for any product can be, you seem to only be defining this one as woke because it targets a group that is non white.  A deceptive marketing or ad would just be deceptive not woke.  What I am saying is that you are expanding the definition of woke to basically fit anything you do not like. So in this instance you do not like Google advertisement and feel its deceptive which mind you is just your opinion since one you are not a dark skinned person so you really cannot test to see if this actually works as advertise.  Actually now that I written the above, I guess for you woke is "Stuff I do not like, that represent a group I have no affiliation with".