there’s a clip going around from the Amazing World of Gumball which appears to mock “social justice warriors,” (even using the term), but it’s at least a little different within the context of the actual episode.

What gumball does in the clip is the definition of “concern trolling,” when someone who doesn’t care about progressive issues tries to “flip the script” and fake concern in order to try and catch the perceived “sjw” in some sort of hypocrisy.



The character playing the role of “the sjw” in this situation meanwhile is shown to be in the right, and cast as the victim of Gumball’s pathological inability to handle criticism. This is completely spelled out only moments prior:

After the concern trolling scene, Gumball digs up the girl’s “criminal past” to try and smear her on the internet, with more of Darwin as the voice of reason:



Gumball is basically an overzealous anti-sjw troll here, stealing terminology he barely understands in an attempt to ruin someone whose only crime was being critical of him. She is portrayed as “annoying,” but also well-meaning and entirely undeserving of his knee-jerk defensive reaction.

Was this a responsible topic to inject into a kid show, though? No, probably not. The context of the concern-trolling bit is fragile, as we’ve seen and very awkward. Gumball is even “defeated” in that scene by “why don’t we just get along?” rhetoric which clashes with the rest of the episode having of a very clear bad guy (Gumball) who both deserves and gets comeuppance. The series creators definitely do not seem to be the redpill type, though. Here’s some bits from the very next episode to air:

