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Under What? keeps things light with an old fisherman trading bad jokes and banter with a talking fish, delivering pure whimsical entertainment free of identity politics or social messaging. The result is safe, neutral storytelling that scores 0/10 on wokeness.
Under What? is a 5-11 minute free interactive comic/visual novel released in 2019 by solo developer Dan Gartman.
Its premise centers on an old fisherman who falls into the sea and engages in light philosophical banter and bad jokes with an anthropomorphic fish character. The story explicitly avoids dragons, good-vs-evil battles, or any heavy narrative tropes, focusing instead on whimsical dialogue choices in a linear, single-ending format with no romance, sexual content, or hero arcs.
Traditional whimsical storytelling drives the experience without identity politics, romance systems, or social commentary of any kind. The developer description explicitly rejects boring nonsense in favor of bad jokes and extraordinary characters, resulting in no character customization, pronoun options, LGBTQ+ portrayal, or DEI-related elements in plot, mechanics, or marketing. This keeps the focus squarely on light-hearted, non-ideological content that prioritizes entertainment over messaging.
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