2019: someone makes a joke about how you should be able to pet the dog in a videogame
2020: whether or not you can pet dogs slowly morphs into a weird kind of moral verdict
2021: ubiquity of virtual dog patting results in viral backlash medium post titled “petting the dog won’t stop real-world animal abuse”
2022: 50 indie games where you pet the dog and then the dog says “ruff, ruff… you know, petting me won’t solve real-world animal abuse”
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