I checked, and sadly this is not a real picture. Unsurprisingly, the LLM is wrong. It's an edit of a picture from around 2022, and he looks normal in the original. As normal as this guy can look, at least.
Your mistake is thinking it's a sandbox game. In my opinion, it's barely even a survival game.
Sure, over the years they have added a lot of systems, but as you noticed, they're all pretty shallow, and on top of that, have basically no interaction with each other.
If you see a news article saying "X Sensational Thing has become a trend", odds are is a gross exaggeration to the point of complete fabrication, and you fell for it.
Games as a Service wasn't even the fatal flaw here. Brawlhalla is another platform fighter that is doing just fine off that model. The dev team for MultiVersus just couldn't handle the project, for one reason or another.
A lot of speculation on the specifics of what went wrong, plenty of players looking for who to blame, but there will probably never be any reliable or concrete info on what exactly happened.
This game leaves behind a legacy of extremely funny poor decisions and mistakes, culminating in becoming one of the few games that got to be shut down twice.
Why are video uploading sites supposed to be free? It costs money to build and maintain them, especially at a scale "for the masses".
Honestly, I'd prefer it if YouTube had just been a subscription you paid for. Better money for the creators, and Google would have had less incentive to harvest every piece of possible personal data about their users to give to advertisers.
The Aunt Jemima brand was changed to Pearl Milling Company due to it being based on a racist charicture. Pearl Milling Company was the name of the company before they created the Aunt Jemima brand, in the late 1800s.
Upset by this change, this fellow is pouring syrup into an old Aunt Jemima brand bottle, and implicitly threatening violence against whoever would try to stop him.
However, he is using Millville brand, which as far as I can tell is unrelated to the Pearl Milling Company.
For Godzilla's return, the King of the Monsters was given a radically new origin story that deviates from the previously established origin of him being mutated by the hydrogen bomb: in Godzilla, Godzilla is explained by Monarch to be an ancient, radiovorous apex predator that has existed for millions of years, existing at least as early as the Pliocene period.
See, that makes sense, until you consider the size of Lemmy.
Even if they were 100% successful, this will only be seen by a few thousand people max, which wouldn't amount to much.
My current hypothesis is that the people doing this are simply stupid.
It's only like two guys that have been doing this for the last week, and I have no idea what their game is.
Lemmy doesn't have enough people for the propaganda to make a meaningful difference, even if everyone did buy into it.
Are they stupid?
"Probably"?
I think the only advertisement I've ever seen from Valve was for Half Life: Alyx when it came out a few years ago.
Not exactly brainwashing kids
Looks like Sony is after their own Back 4 Blood.