they're also just nitpicking at lowhanging fruit. There's a certain type of artist that, when they hit a skill ceiling, decide it's too much work to break through, and instead expand horizontally with ingroup signaling (political, religious/antireligious etc) to rustle more engagement.
It usually occurs at a stage when they're sincere but aesthetically underdeveloped, which comes off as kitsch.
It's better to ride out that frustrating skill phase with angsty bloodied sparkledogs, grimdarking, or OC Sephirothing. I think ages better than tramp-stamping your characters with [current discourse thing].