Thereโs been a new CN article mentioning LADS and the situation around Valko.
Link here: https://t.co/CMmQfvPCev
36Kr is a well established business news outlet in China. Itโs one of the better-known tech/business media platforms and is often compared to TechCrunch, so this isnโt just some random gaming forum or fandom article.
Thatโs why their latest piece is interesting to me.
Theyโre not framing the Valko situation as โCN players hated him so Papergames removed him.โ like weโve seen in previous articles. They EXPLICITLY acknowledge that cancelling him upset another group of players, including people who wanted him or were neutral, and that many of those players spent July protesting, boycotting or considering quitting (this is us xD). They mention the underwhelming performance of Rafayelโs 4th Myth.
They also point out that the players who were angry before the cancellation were not necessarily won back either.
Iโm not treating 36Krโs interpretation as a huge thing that means CN public opinion on Valko has finally flipped, because the section on LADS isnโt the main focus necessarily (from what I was able to understand based on machine translation), but I do think the FRAMING SHIFT matters. A fairly well-recognised CN business outlet is now acknowledging that cancelling Valko created its own commercially relevant group of dissatisfied players (us!! Weโre famous ๐)
Considering how one-sided a lot of the earlier CN media coverage was, this feels like a massive step in the right direction!!
#ๅ จไธ็้ฝ็ฑๆๅฐน #BringValkoBack #LADSis6 #NoValkoNoMoney
i went to a lads qixi event last week and we were all gushing abt valko. everyone loved valko, hell, one girl said she liked valko more than the other 5. theres a small group of ppl who are fully against valko and ull never meet them outside cus they dont go outside
Yeah it was a silly question to get sad over, but usually headcanons are easy to come up with for the other lis from just reading and interacting with them...
The only bits we got of our boy are those PVs that I can recall even in my sleep
The other day my partner playfully asked "Do you think Valko would be the type to whimper, or growl when he's upset" and I paused before saying "I'd like to think he'd whimper"
But in my head I got sad, cause.
I don't know.. I never got the chance to know him ๐ฅน