What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In what way is she “goth”? She’s basically Daphne from Scooby-Doo.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Goth is when choker

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Goth is when frown

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• moderatecentrist@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s just right-wing keyboard warriors wishing they had an anti-immigration girlfriend who looks like that character

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1000097113

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  LOL. Sounds like something 4chan has cooked up.

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• ambitiousslab@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nice to see that even in the virtual world, anti-immigration protesters don’t know what the flag is supposed to look like.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I presume it’s just AI

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  • magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The birthmark on her face switches sides, too

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sure, give a nation of nihilistic alienated young men racist daria, what could possibly go wrong.

  You just know someone embezzled most of the budget before wrapping a bunch of lectures in a “game” less complex than a 2006 newgrounds flash game made by a teenager.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The optimistic view is that this was an intern project… But the fact it was funded by two councils?

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• flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can play the game here. Honestly, it’s not worse than some of the games about anti-social behaviour I was made to play in school. Some good advice, some bad advice and encourages an incourious trust in the system, fairly standard school stuff. Very funny that in the video at the end that the transition from potential terrorist to law-abiding citizen is a gamer going outside.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I didn’t like it honestly. A main issue is, for example, the first prompt, if you download a video, it assumes you will share it. Or if you “explore the topic further” you go on a racist rant. I would have rathered the character explores further and finds out it’s BS or something of that nature. The tiktok scene is stupid, where if you “do your research” you get radicalised, so the correct option is to “just ignore it” and then you find out apparently a charity is doing something the government stopped doing (how is that a good thing???).

    Then at the end you nearly get arrested if you attend a protest. Not a good message to send.

    Another issue is at some point it mentions an “encrypted” messaging app using the term “encrypted” like it’s a spooky ghost and automatically bad.

    Also quite sloppy how when you do choose the correct option you literally lose all of your friends. Couldn’t they have had you do research and debunk your friend’s claims?

    A de-radicalisation programme would have been very good, but I think this one actually in fact backfires. Part of me suspects it was even made by someone on that side of politics as a sabotage tactic, it’s that bad.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tale as old as time… If you don’t make your villain a Disney stereotype someone will try to reclaim it. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t successful… but given how rubbish Prevent is, I wouldn’t bank on that either.

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