Forum threads and plenty of users are getting banned and censored on the Steam community hub for Wolfenstein: Youngblood. Shortly after Bethesda dropped the story trailer for the upcoming shooter game, some gamers took to the Steam forums to discuss their displeasure with what they felt was Social Justice politics in the game, which is nothing short of what was featured in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, which ended up turning the forums into a hotbed of incessant fights between Nazis and Communists.

We aren’t seeing the same sort of cringe-worthy battles that unfolded between those defending Nazism and those defending Communism in the Wolfenstein 2 forums. Instead, we’re seeing people who sarcastically mock Wolfenstein: Youngblood for being “woke”, “feminist propaganda”, and part of the “SJW agenda” simply having their threads locked and their accounts banned from the community hub, just like what’s been happening with the forums for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 and Mortal Kombat 11.

It started with a thread by Infected Ronin on March 27th, 2019 at 10:58am. Infected Ronin proceeded to mock anti-SJWs and those who hate feminist propaganda, writing…

“Oh noes! Girls! Nobody wants to play as girl! duh “[Just kidding] about how some players gonna react to this game. “Gonna buy it just because young women raised by BJ gonna be some awesome badass in my book.”

Despite the pro-SJW tone of the thread, the responses were pretty heated from people who did not like what they felt was a game starring “ugly butch girls or trans dudes”. The fights ensued, and by 4:30pm on that very same day, the thread was locked.

Another user made a thread baiting anti-SJWs. Smegley Bonerstein made a thread on March 27th, 2019 at 11:25 am, writing…

“If you are complaining about female protagonists in this game.. You didnt pay attention to the games actually detailed plot. “Sorry you didnt get a narrator to spoon feed you it i guess..”

Typically, anti-SJWs piled into the thread, with users like Flakey writing “The leads are too ugly for that price point.”

Things really picked up when users began linking to DailyStormer.name.

Three pages in, and after some users got banned, at 4:29pm later that day the thread was locked.

User Sugar Show made a thread on March 27th, 2019 at 11:41am, writing…

“NAZIS ARE ALREADY DEAD, LET THEM GO. “NAZIS ONLY LIVES IN THE HEARTS OF GAME DEVELOPERS, IT’S TIME TO CHANGE THE ENEMY.”

This sentiment actually managed to create the exact kind of conversation (or lack thereof) that you would expect. More links to DailyStormer.name were posted, along lots of opposition. Eventually the thread broke down into another debate about Nazism versus Communism, and at 5:37pm later that day… the thread was locked.

On March 27th, 2019 at 11:12pm CalistriX3D mocked the kind of language that he figured game journalists would use for anyone who didn’t like the game, writing…

“You are a misogynistic white male If you don’t like this game. “Sarcasm, who bets the journalists will blame us white men for being misogynist if the game doesn’t sell many copies?”

Five hours later CalistriX3D was banned from the forums and the thread was locked.

On March 27th, 2019 BryanFury also made a thread decrying MachineGames’ take on World War II, feeling as if the franchise departed too far away from what it used to be, writing…

“LOL what is this? “Real talk, you have the greatest army ever, no one and I mean no one would have beaten the nazis one on one, and by nazis I mean the real ones. “Here in this game we have basicly nazis on steroid, they won the war they control everything and instead of putting a badass american a badass army with a badass story we have two puny schoolgirls as a threat to the nazis??!!!……lol this sjw bulllshit is so anticlimatic it’s unbelievable. “It’s a disgrace even to those soldiers who actually fought against nazis with the help of almost the whole world.”

The thread managed to last a lot longer than the rest, generating five pages worth of discussion that eventually turned into a debate over who was better between the German Nazis and the Soviet Russians, at which point the thread was locked a couple of days later on March 29th, 2019.

BryanFury at least managed to escape being banned. Others, however, weren’t so lucky. Justicar’s thread that was posted on March 28th, 2019 asked a simple question…

“I’m a straight white old-fashioned man. Would I enjoy this game? “This is a serious question. Please no trolling.”

The thread actually managed to stay on topic, but it turned into a debate as to why straight white men don’t like SJW games and why SJWs don’t like straight white males, and how everyone hates SJWs. Just an hour later Justicar found himself banned… and the thread was locked.

More recently piecewise66 made a thread on March 29th, 2019 titled “What?”. He wrote…

“So what happened to this series? Where is BJ? Why are we now fighting future nazis with random power armor ladies? Haven’t we beat these nazis like 4 times by now too? “Are they lesbians together? Is this a Fear Effect rip off? “Why does the blonde one look like the “My face is tired” lady from mass effect Andromeda? “This one is called young blood. Is it a prequel to the Old blood? You know, when the blood was young. “Who is the blood? “Is this Jewish power armor really shaped like a bunch of gold coins glued together? “Can I do something that is like the reverse of preordering? Can I preignore this?”

I never noticed that about the power armor. What keen observational skills.

And just to be clear, the two girls are twin daughters of BJ. The verdict is still out on whether or not they’re both lesbians, though.

But I digress.

Minutes after making the post, the thread was locked.

Now to be fair, there are a few threads still active. Cherrycat’s thread asking “Why did you make them so obnoxious?” was posted on March 27th, 2019 and it’s still alive… for now.

Cherrycat also makes some really good points, writing…

“The trailer is cringe, why can’t you just make female characters that are as cool as male characters…but female? You make them look awful, obnoxious and cringe. “Can you developers please learn to make good female characters, what a wasted opportunity. You have stone cold characters like B.J. Blazkowicz that inspire respect and really make you feel amazing to play as him and then when you make females you turn them into clowns, why?”

I’m guessing that they didn’t lock her thread (yet) because it’s a woman criticizing the developers for poorly depicting females in the trailer?

The Sorrow’s thread comparing Wolfenstein: Youngblood to The Last Jedi is also still active as of the writing of this article. It, too, was also posted on March 27th, 2019, but it doesn’t mention anything about SJWs and just compares Wolfenstein to Star Wars.

One of the more uplighting response threads to the announcement of Wolfenstein: Youngblood is from Purpleetea, who seems to pop up frequently in forums of highly contentious games. They simply had the following to say…

DOOM: Eternal is due out in 2019 for PC, PS4, Xbox One and for the Nintendo Switch.

For more information about DOOM: Eternal feel free to visit the official website.

(Thanks for the news tip oldgamer21)