That’s kind of what I was getting at. The nature of media is such that it’s impossible for 100% of the author’s intended message to reach 100% of the intended audience, so splitting hairs over signaling isn’t very productive. Some people saw the hundreds of thousands killed by Arachnids as acceptable losses and Doogy Howzer showing up in an SS uniform to take the Brain Bug off for Mengele experiments and thought "wow this is so cool literally me :so-true: "

If satire is well-crafted, it will get the point across appropriately. If it doesn’t then that’s not some severe moral failing. It’s more shitty writing than anything else, and piss-poor communication.