>>1385>I could be talking out my ass because I didn't bother verifying it, but I can see an increase of these with the rise of people vibe codingThis is definitely happening, but even before current AI most game platforms were filled with low effort porn games, most using stock realistic 3D models. I would guess that it's now easier to make anime style 2D hentai games specifically due to the ease of generating art. The stuff that was on the top rated page on itch specifically looked at least hand drawn, probably there since before porn game monetization was removed. There's also still more yandere stuff on that page than hentai though kek.
>>1386Part of it is westerners making baby's first VN feel like they need to be clever and subvert tropes when they may have never even read a VN before themselves, and then add on people specifically feeling like they need to subvert 'toxic BL' tropes.
But there is definitely more genuine stuff that's just like a standard BLVN than it seems, it's just that the meme games are the only ones that blow up into mainstream.