Era staff have put themselves in an unwinnable position when it comes to problematic mainstream properties. The polls and other things like OT activity for big games has made it 100% clear that there absolutely ARE a lot of people there that "just want to talk about video games". People that, while they may not be entirely apathetic to social issues, will still try not to think about them too much while they consume their multi-million dollar AAA luxury product. Those same people are aware of the climate on Era. They'll steer clear of threads related to social issues or drop an uncontroversial take like "wow that's awful" and then quickly dip.
A segment of the site wants to force people to care about things that they don't care about, something that's really not possible. The staff will try to take a lighter approach, thinking that if they're constantly bombarded with information (in the form of threadmarks at the top of every page and people bringing it up), then they'll eventually care about it. But that doesn't really happen either. You saw it in the past too. Like say a Dragon Quest thread, where you'll have a handful of posts saying "not buying this because Sugiyama" while the rest of the thread just ignore them or go on talking about the actual game.
The Cyberpunk thread is going to be the same. You'll see a staff post at the top of every page, a handful of people decrying the game's and company's alleged transphobia, and thousands upon thousands of posts about how neat/mediocre the combat is, or how well-realized the world is, or how this cool dude with cybernetic body parts looks like T Pain. And while this is happening, you'll get another "we need to talk about how this website ignores transphobia" thread, pointing to how people on a video game forum are talking about a video game.
The only real solution to make people actually look at the issue would be to ban discussion of these properties. Of course that won't make them care about the issue and they'll find somewhere else to talk about it. But shouldn't Era be a safespace and not a means to convert people that are wishy-washy on these issues to full commitment? Because you're not protecting these very vocal marginalized voices by allowing them to see how excited people are for this problematic content. After all "it's not the jobs of the marginalized to coddle white people".
There's virtually no options for the staff that doesn't turn into a disaster down the line unless the vocal segment just gets fed up and leaves the place, something I can't imagine them doing with how they've been so far. Not after Ketkatgate.
