Think about this logically for just five seconds, I beg of you.

Second Dinner is a games company. Their goal is to make money selling their product, Marvel Snap. We can all agree on this.

Now, if your goal is to make money, it would be a very bad decision to have your product removed from consumers hands by force. If you knew ahead of time that was going to happen, due to the parent companies parent company you were under, you would work to make that not happen. By say, switching publishers.

What's more likely: That Bytedance didn't inform one of their subsidiaries that this was happening for whatever reason, or that Second Dinner purposely decided to lose a bunch of money by sticking with them even though they knew the app was going to be shut down in the U.S. for an indefinite period of time?

Second dinner is not your friend, but they are also not an all-knowing conspiratorial cabal scheming in an evil lair. Ben Brode is not trying to gaslight you.

Please, take this opportunity to touch some grass. And hey, if you do still believe that Second Dinner is sneaking into your house and pissing on your cornflakes every morning, now's the perfect chance to play something different.