# hashtag occupy itch and unionize regarding itch.io - trigger warning about indie labor grind exploitation isolation fragmentation depression and burnout > itchy itchy itch > one may whizz shout moan and b1tch > but no one's getting rich > the owner may be nice' > but that don't keep on yo lights > take back control today > or forever be a slave > your indie game ain't sh1t > if collectively y'all split talk about a fractured isolated alienated scene of hyper individualism when one hears the often lamentable terms indie playstate or indiedev one can't help but keep hearing or reading the systematic institutional and cultural inability to discuss labor organizing and unionization along overtly communal / socialist lines what about a playstate jam called occupyitch in which indie (ie still socially cut off from socialist collectivism') devs get together make a bunch of cool experimental and politically biting art-as-work about feeling miserable isolated alienated poor and exploited whether generally or on itch specifically so what sayeth you good oppressed artists of the digital world with nothing to loose but the terminal boredom of 5 solid hours spent in unreal engine grinding without success just to get asfc a single stupid cube to render at a decent non bluffy framearte // republic of bob