Thousands of people have signed an online petition to include anti-vaxxers in the popular PC Game Plague Inc.
In case you’re not familiar with the concept, Plague Inc. is pretty much your average tycoon game, except instead of running a theme park or hospital, you have to kill off the human race with a plague.
In the Change.org petition, gamer Eduard Gabrian has proposed that anti-vaxxers should be part of the game – more specifically as a buff. Basically, to help spread disease. Makes sense.
Nearly 17,000 people have signed the petition so far, and it’s gained popularity ever since it was put up on Reddit. The description of the petition reads: “Anti Vaxxers are stupid.”
You can sign the petition here.
In similar news, one anti-vaxxer is particularly p*ssed off about the Spider-Man game.
Insomniac Games and Marvel released one of the best games of 2018 in the PlayStation exclusive Spider-Man. The game jumped to being one of the most popular and best-selling titles of the year, but it seems not everyone was impressed.
A post from an anti-vaxxer has been doing the rounds on Reddit, and it appears to show a person who’s incredibly angry about one part of the game in particular.
The image, which has been posted multiple times across the platform making it hard to trace, has become something of a meme. It reads: “Brainwashing our kids!!!! This is Marvel Spiderman for PS4 video game. Can you see what this says?!! It’s telling Spiderman to disperse vaccines in the water supply!”
It’s not known whether or not the post is real or just memes, but it’s blown up on Reddit.
“Antivaxxers can be found all over our flat earth though,” joked one Redditor.
On another thread a user wrote: “I lost my brain cells the instant I clicked this subreddit and I don’t know how to leave.”
Unsurprisingly, Marvel, Sony and Insomniac haven’t reacted to the post.
It’s so sweet that #SpiderMan made a pigeon vaccine for that guy’s birds. #SpiderManps4
— Al Viscardi (@alviscardi) August 16, 2018
Really hoping this flu vaccine will give me superpowers this year. #Inhumans #SpiderMan
— Nick Capul (@407pogi) November 8, 2017
There doesn’t seem to be any other people in any dark corners of the internet that share the sentiment echoed in the FB post (that I could find, at least). Over on Twitter, no-one else seems irate about this particular Spider-Man mission, so we’ll have to see how the story develops (if it does).
Somehow, I don’t think this is going to stop people buying, playing and adoring Sony’s Spider-Man…
Let us know your opinion!
Featured image credit: Plague Inc