I don’t post here often, but I go here when I feel like I can’t go anywhere else!
The game, Phasmophobia, about ghost hunting and identifying ghosts, recently blew up. I watch a lot of my Gamer-Youtubers play it, and it’s amusing, but I /hate/ the damage it’s done on the term “Smudge Stick”. It’s straight up a bad case of research on their part, they’re from the UK, but come-on...
Misinformation in the Witchcraft community drove the term for Smoke-Cleansing Sticks as “Smudge Sticks”, and those who fight for the correction of that know well that once that misinformation is out there, there are people who will fight that it isn’t cultural appropriation *eye rolls*
Now this huge game that blew up, which so many people have played or watched, and don’t even know it’s a misused term, will forever know the incorrect label.
And there’s not even a good way to contact the gaming studio! Join their Discord to get bombarded by people defending it? no thanks. Tweet them? same dish.
Just gonna sit here trying to not be upset about big damages done by “the gaming studio not knowing the game would blow up like this”.
