I pulled a few quick examples (they’re from YouTube, Reddit, Netflix, and TikTok), but I know there are others I’m not aware of or can’t think of. Repeatedly, social and content platforms will introduce this very out-of-left-field “games” section filled with mostly slop-tier browser games. I don’t understand why. Is there really an audience for this, or is it just something that tech companies wind up doing because they’re fun to build and the SWEs managed to trick management into it? What’s the endgame?

The only reasoning I can think of is (a) children are into it somehow, or (b) management has zero understanding of gaming and thinks they can become Steam by adding flappy bird clones.