Article "Evil" girl of UK gov's anti-right propaganda backfires as hero for trads (DIY fail)

[C C]

About the worst thing you can do with teens is portray your rival as hip and cool, and your own political camp as overly pious or hyper-moral lecturing and stodgy.
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Progressive ‘anti-far right’ game backfires as antagonist Amelia becomes viral meme
https://www.hungarianconservative.com/ar...iral-meme/

EXCERPTS: Right-wing internet and social media have been flooded in recent days with Amelia, the purple-haired goth ‘nationalist extremist’ from an online prevention game created by Hull City Council in England. The controversial game, which effectively treats every white young person as a potential extremist, has accidentally spawned a meme that is now used to spread the very ideology and messaging the council sought to prevent—and categorizes as ‘far-right extremism’ through the creation of the game.

[...] The message and purpose of the game are clear—and outrageous, though not entirely surprising: if you believe in preserving your nation’s culture and traditions, and want to protect it from mass migration by people who do not respect those same traditions, then you are cast as the villain and excluded by your peers.

However, the game’s developers and the progressive masterminds behind it made a glaring mistake. They turned Amelia, the game’s main antagonist, into an archetype that is widely popular in global meme culture among young people: the goth girl.

As soon as the game escaped its ‘educational’ bubble, right-wing social media latched onto her. Suddenly, timelines were filled with Amelia fan art, edits, and screenshots. Rather than being seen as a ‘dangerous nationalist extremist’, as the creators intended, she became an ironic hero—a kind of mascot for resisting the very ideas the game was designed to promote.

[...] Finally, here are some of the best Amelia memes I have come across on X recently... (MORE - missing details)

VIDEO EXCERPTS:

The UK government is working hard to indoctrinate young kids and teach them just how racist it is to not accept their entire culture being erased and replaced. But  lately, their propaganda backfired so badly that it's hilarious on so many levels.

A few months ago, the UK Home Office funded this program called Prevent, which was aiming to educate children aged 11 up to 18 on extremism and radicalization. In other words, let us tell you what is good think.

And if you hear people say the kind of stuff that we tell you is inappropriate, you should know that that is wrong think because we are the government and because we say so. Here's how the game works.

It's called Pathways and players guide white teenage characters through scenarios where they must avoid being flagged for extreme right-wing ideology after discussing migration online. An in-game meter tracks how extreme the character's behavior becomes. Players who lose may receive counseling for ideological thoughts or face referral to an anti-terrorism expert.

[...] The character can also attend a protest against the changes that Britain has been through in the last few years and the erosion of British values. attending the protest nearly results in arrest with a character discovering it focuses more on racism and anti-immigration than British values.

[...] It minimizes the entire topic down to a binary choice where you're either fully open to unchecked immigration or you're just a bigot. It completely ignores legitimate concerns like social cohesion, resource allocation, the pace of change within communities by slapping the racism label on any amount of skepticism shuts down any chance for debate whatsoever.

And the fact that this is the position of the people in charge, institutions with actual power over people, it feels incredibly authoritarian. [...] The game is designed by Shout Out UK, which claims to provide impartial political and media literacy training...

[..] What's hilarious here is that the game backfired in a major way. You see, the game's antagonist is a purple-haired goth girl named Amelia. In the story, Amelia is deliberately designed as a bad influence for the protagonist. She tries to radicalize the player by talking about anti-immigration views, protecting British culture and tradition, opposing mass migration, and inviting the player to join protests. If you agree with her and follow along, the game flags you with a warning that you're on a dangerous path.

The creators intended Amelia to be an obvious caricature of a far-right activist, someone that players are supposed to reject. But instead, the exact opposite happened online. It was the Strand effect on steroids. People found her attractive, fitting the classic e-girl archetype that's already popular in meme culture, and they reclaimed her as a symbol of their own actual real life views.

Because of course they did. People are not caricatures. A lot of people worry about mass migration, British culture erosion, everything that the game creators present as wrong. These are actual things that British people care about. So, the propaganda backfired so hard that the Pathways game got disabled and taken offline the moment the Amelia meme took off. If this isn't all just glorious, I don't know what is...

UK government propaganda BACKFIRES hard. ... https://youtu.be/F_vmSRDDkgo

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/F_vmSRDDkgo

[Syne]

LOL! They basically admitted that the right-wing is the cool counterculture... fighting to express themselves and protect their rights in their own country.

[C C]

More goth girl heresy.

Amelia: Rule Britannia : https://youtu.be/YWgxGaRxcT0

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/YWgxGaRxcT0

[Yazata]

It's an indication of how far we've fallen, not just in Britain but in all of the western world, that love of one's country, emotional attachment to home with its history and traditions, and opposition to a wholesale social revolution that nobody asked for seeking to transform everything into... something else, has somehow become emblematic of the "far right" and of evil.

Amelia stands defiantly as the antithesis of all that. Creating her and positioning her as a symbol of 'alt' cultural opposition to already deeply unpopular establishment doctrine was perhaps the biggest propaganda screw-up by the social mandarins in living memory.

Angrily denouncing her as "racist" isn't going to help much either. That will just make "racism" more acceptable and even trendy among the rebellious young.

I'm falling in love with this girl!

The classic Amelia video meme

https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2012646114139230254

Amelia's returning home farewell song

https://x.com/nostra_europa/status/2017271228738781305

A French version of Amelia's returning home farewell song (it's actually quite good... anything sounds better in French)

https://x.com/nostra_europa/status/2017271588555530590

An Australian version of Amelia

https://x.com/realStephanas/status/2017193139052978563

Joan of Arc Amelia

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Sexy Amelia

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Anti-Starmer Amelia

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American inspired MEGA Amelia

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[Syne]

This is what the world needs. A resurgence of local patriotism.

[Yazata]

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XFjppbfvg-8