What the Entertainment Software Association did

This meme features two drawn characters: on the left is an angry, yelling wojak-style figure with the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) logo on its chest, shouting that the other character's activity is illegal. On the right is a small, happy simple drawn character holding a Minecraft diamond pickaxe with a Minecraft block on its head, responding that it just likes playing with its friends. The joke critiques the ESA, a US video game industry trade group, for implementing policies that many gamers view as overly harsh, punitive, and hostile to ordinary players engaging in completely harmless, normal gaming activity like playing Minecraft with friends, such as overly broad copyright enforcement or restrictions on player-run servers/modding.

This meme was sourced from the Reddit Meme subreddit via RSS feed. It is a remix of a popular established wojak meme format, created to satirize widely held gamer grievances against the Entertainment Software Association's regulatory and policy positions that are perceived as anti-consumer. The meme circulated in gaming-focused online communities to criticize the ESA for prioritizing corporate interests over the experience of regular game players.