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七転び八起き | ultor | 🏐🇯🇵🇺🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹

[rios @asisnrgo]

this is just so beautifully written

[Kai 🦋 @imnotkaiii]

reminds me of this.

[K 💫 @keiIuchi]

imagine calling THE lea salonga a clout chaser for the sake of defending korean men 😭✋

[Reg 🍮🍮 #BRINGVALKOBACK @bannpuddn]

pet him pet him pet him

feel like he’d get all whiny and pitiful for pets ^///^

#全世界都爱敖尹 #ValkoIsLoved #BringValkoBack #NoValkoNoMoney

[xhatosanᝰ.ᐟ @mzhari4]

The only change about bokuto is that his body got bigger

[Cereza 🌸 @sercereza]

Chomping Valko

#AoYin #敖尹

[雪莉(Bell) @snowdawned]

Valko holding the 6 as he should #LadsIs6

[NasNas@_21 @NasNas_2110]

I miss Togame. So here's Togames 🐢💚🧡

[݁ ˖Ი𐑼⋆ S H A S °❀.ೃ࿔ ⦮ ⦯ @_hikariko57]

Angel is always so wise about the PPG situation. Her video made me realize I had a few thoughts I wanted to get out.

As a newer player (since I haven’t been here since the game came out), I knew very little about China. I had sparse knowledge, maybe some of their car brands, a few religious viewpoints, and some strict cultural stances.

But Valko’s cancellation has brought a lot of new information to light for me:

Games are not just games for them.
Their importance is deeply tied to their culture. It is such a massive deal that they use them as a "Cultural Export." I had never heard of anything like this before, to me, games were just something to play and enjoy without overthinking.

Fandoms over there can do real damage.
Since they take this so seriously and there aren't strong laws to prevent "water armies" (organized groups of paid internet commentators who manipulate public opinion, promote products, or attack competitors on Chinese platforms), they can invent whatever narrative they want to smear the reputation of any company or individual. They can affect hundreds of lives. It never crossed my mind that some angry girls posting on the internet could orchestrate such a thing. I had this image that the CN side was really strict with this type of behavior, but apparently not.

Cultural Export.
I thought people understood what that actually entails: if you are going to share your culture, you have to assume we might not know much about it. Because, as Angel showed in her video, now they aren't happy with Rafayel’s Myth either, claiming that’s also anti-China and also related to war and Japan.

On a side note, this proves once again that Valko was never the actual problem, and removing him from LADS was NOT the solution. If he was, why are we still seeing the exact same arguments pop up? They are just weaponizing real, horrible historical events to appeal to the emotions of non-players just to stir up trouble.

Adapting or explaining little things for global players works so much better than throwing raw cultural assets at us. We all come from huge, rich cultures ourselves, and precisely because of that we understand that something being meaningful to us doesn't mean outsiders will automatically grasp its weight.

Take the Qixi events. LADS took the time to build up the legend behind the date, so players slowly grew genuinely interested in the tradition instead of being confused by it. That's what sharing a culture looks like. When a myth or a historical reference gets dropped into the game with no framing at all, most of the global playerbase doesn't walk away enriched, they walk away lost, and then get told they're disrespectful for not recognizing something nobody ever gave them the tools to recognize.

It's like if I, as a Mexican, expected everyone globally to instantly understand that Día de Muertos is about celebrating and honoring the memory of the people we lost, not about mourning them. It's layered, and the only way anyone learns it is if someone takes the time to teach it.

In conclusion, true cultural export should be a bridge, not a weapon. If a company genuinely wants to share its heritage with a global audience, that takes patience, thoughtful localization, and a willingness to teach. Bending the knee to toxic water armies who weaponize history to cancel characters destroys that bridge. We are more than happy to appreciate their culture, but using it as a constant excuse to stir up drama and ruin the game for everyone else defeats the entire purpose. And in the end, fewer people will want to learn anything about it, not because of PPG, but because of people who lack empathy and don't understand how a global audience actually works.

https://t.co/dTTzE6vIlQ

#全世界都爱敖尹 #BringBackValko #ValkoCNcultureAmbassador #ValkoIsLoved

[klaha @KurooHiroo]

this new art style making tetsuro look finer than he alr was for no reason
he irriates me so bad i will bite him when im done staring trust

[ヴィン​ OT kills me @Auswin_onyx]

#คมเขี้ยวครองฤทัย

แต่นแต๊น

[范鴻志 RICHARD JUAN 홍준 @richardjuan]

The scoreboard, per kWh, official 2026 rates:

🇵🇭 Meralco: ₱14.48
🇹🇭 Thailand: ₱7.41
🇮🇩 Indonesia: ₱5.31
🇻🇳 Vietnam: ₱5.17
🇲🇾 Malaysia: ₱3.34
Same region. Same heat. Same aircon weather. We pay double to four times more.

[݁ ˖Ი𐑼⋆ S H A S °❀.ೃ࿔ ⦮ ⦯ @_hikariko57]

Pack… PACK!!!!!!!!! WHAT KIND OF AMAZING SURPRISE IS THIS?!!!!!

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!!

People absolutely must know who he is at this point. Once the girls at the event start showing off their pins and all the Valko merch they brought, everyone will connect the dots. They’re all going to be asking about him.

Hahaha YR must be seen him in his dreams atp 🤣

#BringValkoBack #NoValkoNoMoney

[Eycee - Waitlist OPEN!! @AC_jian]

Everyone loves Haikyuu life lessons until coach Ukai Sr. said "There's no match that you can't win, and there's no match that you'll win for sure." And that my folks, why Inarizaki lost..

[HAIKYUUFESS @HAIKYUUFESS]

*hq warning spoiler

bukti kalo kuroo adalah orang yang KONSISTEN, bisa dilihat dr penampilannya😁

[nai señorita suna @suntaroos]

osamu es un personaje tan importante, no solo por su influencia en atsumu sino tambien por lo bien que está escrito su final:

a pesar de ser de nivel nacional, no se hace profesional simplemente porque no es su pasión y eso es tan natural, esas cosas hacen haikyuu más realista

[𝐒hey ⋆˚꩜｡ @Valkophile]

He looks so soft, so baby, so kissable here.

[𑣲⋆skaiii #hinatakgae @ihrtgumikasa]

when they animate this panel you’re gonna see me on the floor

[seal ʢ·͡ᴥ·ʡ 吉BOARD @channiehaae]

how am i supposed to move on with my day when apparently scoups was tearing up watching dino on stage. thats his baby and im supposed to move on. god what a precious relationship.. seeing one of your favorite people grow right in front of you and achieve their dreams. how special

[Sam | VALKOISLOVED @valkoswifesam]

Hot ✅️
Handsome ✅️
Nerd ✅️
Tall ✅️
Glasses ✅️
STEM guy ✅️
Clingy ✅️
Devoted ✅️
Emotionally open ✅️
Golden retriever energy ✅️

In conclusion: Valko checks all the boxes for ultimate husband material 💍

LET US HAVE HIM INFLOP

#全世界都爱敖尹 #BringBackValko

[쿱정원 @wonubliss]

SEUNGKWAN HAHAHAHAHAHAAH

[🍀 @snowballkoshi]

everybody loves the summer camp arc until it’s time to appreciate what the summer camp arc did for karasuno