Incidentally, I don't think anybody "anti-woke" would be playing Mythos. I'm a queer minority dev, after all - they'd probably hate me.
Depends on how you define "woke".
Woke isn't just "diversity". There are plenty of female, gay, and/or "ethnic" people who complain about how much they hate "woke".
A lot of times, when someone complains about something being "woke", what they're really complaining about is "performative diversity" or "rainbow capitalism", where it feels like someone is just exploiting the concept of diversity in an attempt to sell more product rather than out of anything resembling actual sincerity. Or it's a complaint against studios that produce "diverse and inclusive" content more as a shield against criticism rather than in a attempt to actually tell worthwhile stories about diverse characters. Where it feels like the creator in question spent so much time and energy on trying to be as diverse as possible to tick all the inclusivity boxes that they basically forgot to actually tell a worthwhile story. That's where the backlash starts.
Sure, there's always going to be a few people who will scream something is woke the moment they see a woman or "one of dem dere gays", but that's not necessarily the majority. And it's definitely not everyone.
I'd say the main reason why there's such an upsurge in people complaining about everything being woke is because we've just gone through about a decade of multiple media cranking out absolutely
terrible movies, shows, and games - that would have been terrible no matter who or what the characters were - but where anyone who attempts to criticize them for any number of justified reasons are instantly and automatically dismissed as being a bigot because the main character is a lesbian PoC or whathaveyou. When the actual problem is just there are a
lot of bad writers in Hollywood and in game dev.
I mean, I honestly, Mythos is pretty diverse across the board, and I wouldn't really consider it "woke". The diversity is more organic, and the story is trying to be interesting rather than preachy. It doesn't feel like an untalented writer sat down and said "Right, I want to write a thinly-veiled author tract about lesbians and people of every ethnicity", it feels like a talented writer sat down and said "I want to tell a really good story. And it's just going to happen to have a lot of diversity in it because it fits the story and because I'm writing what I know."
If anything, actual diversity
is good. But "diversity" solely for the sake of diversity tends to be bad.
The sad part is that because people have become so anti-woke as a reaction to all the crap, it does increase the odds that "good diversity" will get caught in the crossfire because everyone's a bit hair trigger and ready to attack from being burned so many times in the past.
