Games Workshop was caught in a D.E.I. scandal last week with its changing of the lore to add female custodes to its background. As fans have become more outraged with the offerings of Warhammer 40K, the company has pretended not to care, at least in public. Now, a report has surfaced that in the middle of this P.R. crisis, the company’s CFO has sold off the majority of her stock.
Warhammer 40K is a miniatures war game set in the distant future with mankind spread across the stars. Its tone is grimdark and it has generally had a male-centric fanbase that is very passionate about the lore which has been created over novels, comics, and more over the last several decades.
Female custodes were never a thing in Warhammer 40K. There are different female-centric units, but the custodes were always labeled as men. This change was noticed by fans when Games Workshop made a new announcement, and anger came from the fanbase when the company replied they had always been that way, gaslighting their own customers about the situation.
A former employee of Games Workshop made a post explaining that the lore of Warhammer 40K was always suspect as well, stating that unreliable narrators were a large part of the game’s background. This was met with derision, as the books and codexes were never presented that way.
A further stir occurred when the Warhammer 40K wiki was changed to reflect the female custodes, erasing the history and pretending like it happened exactly as Games Workshop said. Meanwhile, the mainstream media came to the defense of the wargaming company, calling fans “bigots” who didn’t like the deep lore of Warhammer 40K disrespected.
Now, according to a report from the Business Desk, the Games Workshop CFO sees the writing on the wall and is panic-selling her stock.
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Rachel Tongue has been CFO of Games Workshop for some time, accumulating more than a million British pounds worth of stock in the company. She put in her resignation in January but is staying on for a full year while the company finds a replacement. However, during this controversy, she sold two-thirds of her stake in the company, signaling she sees where financial waters are headed for the Warhammer 40K ownership.
Much of the company is owned by funds Black Rock and Vanguard, two companies who have been pushing D.E.I. insanity into cultural entertainment everywhere. Despite this causing problems for other shareholders, their stakes are so large they tend to sway companies anyway. Games Workshop appears to be another victim of this D.E.I. scheme from the global funds.
It’s unclear whether this was the largest amount the Games Workshop CEO could sell, as often those who work in companies are subject to insider trading laws that only allow a certain cap at a time. Rachel Tongue could be planning to sell of the rest of her stock in the future, but this is already a bad sign for the company already in peril.
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Larry Fink and the CEO of Vanguard need to be thrown in jail.
These executives are all Evil and should be replaced by Actual Fans.
It is simply ridiculous to pretend that female custodes were always a thing just because they cannot possibly accept to make a show on a universe were the political correct agenda it’s not shove down people’s throat at every step of the way. This is literally a universe where there are demons, aliens, tortures, rape, genocide on a regular basis but god forbid that we simply get satisfied with the already existing female factions in the universe. No, let’s revolutionize everything to fit the real world we live in. Pathetic