yep they're usually going by the owner's hints which means it's technically 4A violation. they're just an excuse to circumvent probable cause by creating it ad hoc.
developers usually know what's up. assassin's creed 4, a pirate game that mimicked the assassin's creed series that ended with ac3, made the templar's modern day front, abstergo, into a ubisoft parody. in that game abstergo literally makes assassin's creed games with ulterior motives. it was almost like the devs were going "man, fuck this dumbass company" and did that as a middle finger to their bosses.
starts at 5mins at the top coz he's talented but by the end they take around 15 just for the extra care he needed to take to progressively make it look shitty enough for each panel.
"influential"—his "influence" was war crimes. He was a war criminal vice president.