Kojima games have always been full of mechanics and characters that are pretty obviously direct jabs at his own player base.

Hrm, after MGS, what does my NA playerbase look like?

Oh, a bunch of skinny, white, emo nerds with massive insecurity about basically everything in their lives?

Perfect, that’s the new main character, and he gets a shonen character arc.

… MGS4 legitimately got me to get a portable cigarette butt container, and then also helped me to quit smoking.