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Because they grew up on Marvel movies and they're also shitter-shattered that they spent 100k on a degree that they can't actually use in actual real life and not just social media.
Also because their sense of self entirely only relies on skin color, political leaning, and sexuality and literally nothing else, and just assume that everyone else is okay with that, supports them, and anyone that disagrees is an [insert wall of text here].
See: the Saint's Row reboot

It also kinda ties into that thing that's been getting more popular the last 10-ish years where most media is slowly becoming just a bunch of autobiographies in one way or another, where people aren't making as many fantasy worlds with fantasy races.
>no, the Dwarves are actually just disgusting parodies of actual "People of Small"
>Elves HAVE to be as mixed as IRL because ??? and no, they're not different races of elves, they're just different because that's how IRL works, racist!
>no they can't just fix his legs with magic, he uses a magic wheelchair that looks just like an IRL one for some reason
>the Qunari now have human faces because they were all "white" before
>haha I made my racist grandma into a character in my movie and she dies right after saying racemixing is bad!
>hehe I made the main character look like me and he's gay because I'm gay, but now they made me remove the romance subplot and now my character is a boring husk because I literally only made him gay with nothing else in his entire personality!
>I added an entire monologue by the "different" character all about how you should universally accept people when they're different because I'm trans and I want eggs to see this speech and be empowered!
Nope, can't just make up fake worlds with fake world problems, gotta have the main villain say "Make Gleepnak'r Great Again" as he glasses a planet.
I kinda want a hat that just says "Make Fantasy Fantastical Again", but I live somewhere where people might not think that's funny.