“I’m not particularly anxious about it,” she says. (Gender diversity doesn’t exist in the apocalypse, or something.) It was a vocal minority, but still, one could understand any resulting apprehension.
Though The Last of Us: Part II is considered, like its predecessor, to be one of the greatest video games ever made, its release of was marred by backlash towards the Lev character arc and the masculine presentation of protagonist-villain Abby.
This suggests that the gurgling undercurrent of internet hostility will carry through to the second season, assuming those integral queer elements remain intact.