in the most non-doomer way possible, my first lockout was the most fun i've maybe ever had in xiv, and my second made me never have fun in xiv again

based as fuck

- and significant enough to be something one definitely hears from or is warned of by their colleagues as a corporate VTuber (especially seeing as said corporation also covers the west AND both branches are in more contact than is standard)

Can't speak on news outlets, but yes to attempts to protest by JP netizens and yes to that resulting in notable backlash for JP talent.

Probably not as widespread, but definitely significant enough that not knowing = willful ignorance worthy of indictment in and of itself -

Open the link, that has all the proof you need Pika wasn't harassed.

Silver's claims of harassment predate the actual "harassment", which was in actuality people calmly critiquing her decision to falsely claim harassment.

There is no "clap back"; you struck first.

Twitter is much heavier on the "cis people trolling" (and the expected grifts). Couldn't find a single person condemning her at all, let alone wishing ill on her.

Pikamee did not retire due to harassment, and was not significantly harassed at all. medium.com/@cabotrose/d...

Silvervale is still around and still a TERF.

Very common misconception – JP got the full brunt of the discourse at launch. Even if they don't fully understand the genocide, anyone who wasn't ignoring it on purpose would understand "there's a problem with this game specifically"

plagiarized? i'd love to hear about this

Exactly. I might have been more forgiving on launch, but it's been 2 years since then and JP prominently participated in the discourse on the first go around. It's impossible not to know, even if the takeaway missed key points and was only "There's Something Wrong With This Game Specifically"

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I wonder if they know that the normal fans and the rw culture warriors are fighting eachother daily on if the company is woke or not and for the low low price of a sponsored stream they’re giving carte blanche for the latter category to spam her tags with ai pictures of her burning trans flags

- that particular line unless you're willing to argue the rest.

"She can't say no" doesn't actually get hate off Korone, it doubles it and gives it to management; it is ultimately an argument that COVER is abusing / has the leash so tight it's hurting her, not that everything is okay.

I don't believe that, but you probably shouldn't try to defend her with -

the part about having convictions & morals that matters, is what you do when standing for them _isnt_ trivial or easy

it genuinely fucks with my brain that what is essentially "just following orders" worded different is used to excuse corporate vtubers placidly endorsing enriching an infamous bigot

i honestly feel like it Says Something if a scene leans extremely trans-inclusive on the indie end but people being paid for it are 100% cis. it never happens on accident, it's small media firms being aggressively transphobic

i know i'm not here often but i thought of you the entire time when i was playing the new patch

thank you too, I'm very glad you think so

Regardless of the current state, things are about to get a lot better. It will become very obvious who was critiquing in good faith and who was hating just to hate.