>>715955234
herd mentality. Since everybody has these stupid big bloated budgets everybody is chasing down anything that seems "popular" to sell as many units as they can shit out

Get enough devs to spam the gray smog everywhere and others will follow suit. Bloom used to also one of these obnoxious effects back in 2005+. Another was the brown piss and shit filter in the 2010s >>715952586

the smog filter is another trend that comes and goes to be replaced with the new fashionable visual effect