Liz | Chronic

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[Pokemon On X @PokemonOnX]

That one time Pikachu met Jesus and he just like "lol check out my sweet yo yo"
#pokemonㅤㅤㅤ

[Serena_Solstice @solstice_serena]

Dear @Love_Deepspace Team,

I am writing only on my own behalf. I do not represent the entire community or claim that every player shares my opinion. These are simply my personal reflections after spending weeks following discussions across X, Discord, Weibo and Xiaohongshu while trying to understand why this situation affected me so deeply. This is not a demand, a complaint, or an attempt to tell you how to make your game. It is simply an honest attempt to explain why I believe this situation is no longer only about Valko. It is about trust.

People often assume Love and Deepspace succeeded because of attractive male characters. I don't believe that. If that were enough, I could have chosen hundreds of other games. I stayed because your game offered consistency, worldbuilding, patience, and long-term storytelling. Every chapter, Memory, event, and hidden reference felt like another carefully placed piece of a much larger puzzle. Nothing felt random. It felt planned. That planning inspired trust. I believed every unanswered question would eventually have an answer and every character had a purpose. I wasn't simply collecting cards—I was investing my trust in your vision, and that trust became one of the reasons I kept supporting the game.

Love and Deepspace always felt like more than a gacha game. I understand that revenue is one of the most important goals of any business. But revenue is the result of something. For me, Love and Deepspace earned that support by making me feel it offered more than entertainment or another opportunity to spend money. It gave me a world I wanted to believe in, and that belief made supporting your work feel worthwhile rather than transactional.

Valko is important to me not because he is another Love Interest but because he represents your original vision. For years, the game suggested a carefully planned world through its storytelling, symbolism, stellacrum colors, battle arenas, and countless details. Valko felt like the missing piece that completed that vision. When his release was cancelled only days before launch, I didn't simply lose excitement for one character. I lost confidence that the vision I had trusted for such a long time would remain intact, and that uncertainty was far more painful than the loss of a single banner.

Ironically, trust is one of Love and Deepspace's central themes. The game teaches players to build relationships, believe in promises, and rely on others. When trust becomes part of the experience, losing it affects players differently than in most games. I don't know why the decision regarding Valko was made, and I won't pretend I do. This isn't about assigning blame. It's about consequences. When players no longer know whether years of planning can change overnight, uncertainty naturally replaces confidence, and rebuilding that confidence becomes much harder than preserving it.

If Valko ever returns, I sincerely hope he returns exactly as your team originally created him. Please don't redesign him into a compromise. Please don't remove the qualities that made him unique. The character many of us fell in love with was your creation, not ours. We trusted your writers, artists, designers, and voice actors because we believed in the story they wanted to tell. Please trust them too.

If I had completely lost faith in your studio, I wouldn't be writing this. I would have quietly left. The reason I am still here is because I believe the people who built the world I fell in love with are still there. Please don't abandon your original vision. Please don't let fear become stronger than creativity. Love and Deepspace taught me that trust is built slowly but can be damaged in moments. I sincerely hope one day I'll be able to experience Valko exactly as your team originally imagined him, because I don't want a rewritten story. I fell in love with yours.

With respect,
SerenaSolstice

#BringBackValko #ValkoIsLoved #BringValkoBack

[gutz | VALKO IS LOVED 🐺 @loseurgutz]

and i’ll never understand why it was THAT serious

valko came with heaps of free content. he came with free cards, new companions, the main story update everyone had been waiting for.

it could’ve all been here by now. i can just see all the posts saying, ‘wait, he actually isn’t that bad’.

now thousands of players are suffering because they couldn’t be happy about FREE content. i’m livid. ugh.

love is stronger than hate, i just need to crash out sometimes.

#VALKOISLOVED #WELOVEVALKO #ValkoIsThe6Li #VALKOBELONGS #VALKO #BRINGBACKVALKO #JusticeforValko #BRINGVALKOBACK #KEEPVALKOALIVE #BLACKOUTFORVALKO

[gutz | VALKO IS LOVED 🐺 @loseurgutz]

someone just told me not to drag the other LI into this…

okay, i’m going to hold everyone’s hand when i say this:
without valko, your main is going to suffer.

not because i’m mean or because i’m pessimistic, it’s the genuine truth. there are already rumors about how valko helped caleb, about how he was friends with zayne. most importantly and CANONICALLY, he is rafayel’s counterpart. their stories will now suffer from the absence of valko. their stories were built WITH VALKO IN MIND! FOR THREE FUCKING YEARS!

not only that, otome games only thrive when new characters are added. your main is going to rot in a game that isn’t going anywhere. it will be repeat after repeat and the game was already going stale before valko was announced. so good luck <3

this isn’t a LI war. we all want lads to improve and valko is the solution.

#VALKOISLOVED #WELOVEVALKO #ValkoIsThe6Li #ValkoIs6th #AoYin #VALKOBELONGS #VALKO #BRINGBACKVALKO #JusticeforValko #VALKOCOMEHOME #BRINGVALKOBACK #KEEPVALKOALIVE #BLACKOUTFORVALKO

[nkrypt1d #BRINGVALKOBACK @nkrypt1d]

Alright, kiddies, lore theory time.

If my theory-brain is working right, then each LI represents one of the Six Realms of Existence, with MC being trapped in the middle of them (reincarnation).

If one realm were to vanish (such as Valko, who represents Tiryagyoni), it would break the system of karmic balance, as beings would no longer have that specigic destination to exhaust or experience certain states of mind.

In this case, MC's cosmic journey would then be permanently missing. Her soul, tied to the six paths, would thus be incomplete. Tiryagyoni represents a buffer of raw instinct and vulnerability. Without it, MC's reincarnations might violently swing only between the extremes of human suffering and divine detachment, making her cycle even more volatile.

On top of that, in the Six Paths theory, each "Benevolent" path has an "Unbenevolent" mirror. For example, Xavier (Human Path) foils Sylus (Fiend Path). Valko was meant to be the unbenevolent, feral foil to a benevolent counterpart. Without him, one of the remaining men (Rafayel) is left completely unbalanced, carrying a narrative and cosmic weight they were never meant to hold alone. Rafayel would be the most profoundly affected, suffering a slow and terrifying unraveling.

By vanishing from the story, Valko didn't just leave an empty seat at the table; he ripped an entire dimension out of the universe. For MC, it means her eternal cycle of rebirth is no longer a wheel—it is a broken track, forcing her to loop endlessly through a universe that is missing a fundamental piece of its soul.

So, yeah. This affects all the LIs, but most of all, it affects us as the player, and Rafayel as Valko's mirror.

#BringValkoBack #ValkoIsInnocent #ValkolsLoved

[Liz | Chronic @chronicDaydr3mr]

@euphuisticgrace @strmhnd One of my favorite decks💚

[pupapupa @pupapupasupa]

Reflections (Analysis) on the Situation with the Game Love and Deepspace from a Chinese Player

THREAD

#ValkoGlobal #valko #BRINGBACKVALKO #LadsBringBackvalko #Valko #JusticeForValko #LADS #BringValkoBack #KeepValkoAlive #ValkoIsLOVE #爱与��原 #敖尹 #敖尹回来 #ValkoWasFramed

[Celestine @Celestine69420]

I deleted my Framed post to bring to attention:

- Do not contact news outlets global or CN.

- Voice yourself on X, be as loud as you want, go support our CN sisters on Weibo/XHS.

- DO NOT engage with CN state media comments

It's PPG's battle

#ValkoWasFramed #BringBackValko

[EXTINCION CERO @extincion_cero]

Valko y uno de sus hermanos. Muchas gracias a la comunidad de @Love_Deepspace y a @_hikariko57 por darnos la oportunidad de que aprecien y se concienticen de que los lobos en vida real, también merecen un futuro.
#Valko #bringvalkoback #bringbackvalko #LADSFORVALKO #SaveTheLobo

[gutz | VALKO IS LOVED 🐺 @loseurgutz]

valko is a symbol of love.

his love is as pure as his intentions. he’s not a predator, he’s not harmful.

he loves mc more than anything. that’s his mate. he’s waited his whole life for her love, and oh, she does love him. their love is pure and genuine and playful as all good love stories should be.

even as we fight for valko, he remains a symbol of love. we love valko. we want valko. please allow love to win. #ValkoWasFramed #ValkoisInnocent

#ValkoIsThe6Li #ValkoIs6th #AoYin #VALKOBELONGS #VALKO #BRINGBACKVALKO #JusticeforValko #VALKOCOMEHOME #BRINGVALKOBACK #KEEPVALKOALIVE #BLACKOUTFORVALKO

[𝒔𝒖𝒛𝒖 @pinkcrispss]

i'm gonna cry, look at how much kindness we are doing in the name of Valko. Silas is loved and so is Valko 🐾🤍

#bringbackvalko #bringvalkoback #ValkoWasFramed

[Al | アルパカ @Alpackaaa]

Don't be stupid and go to xhs and Weibo for this. Also, don't message any media outlet either. For the love of god don't insult the state media.

We have 100% freedom to say what we need to say right here on X, OUR platform.

But CN's eyes are watching us very closely.

Because cultural export is important to them.

[Al | アルパカ @Alpackaaa]

We are protesting their media and the bad actors that were involved, that directly affected all of us.

We are ABSOLUTELY allowed to express our dissatisfaction with the way this was handle on OUR platform.

HOWEVER.

IT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA TO GO AFTER THEM ON XHS OR WEIBO.

My dear CN friend told me this directly:

"These official media comment sections are under very strict control. If large-scale protests were to appear in their comment sections, following the way things are handled on our side, they might even force Yodo1 to shut down the game to quell public opinion."

[Al | アルパカ @Alpackaaa]

NOW THE PSA. Let's all get on the same page... let me explain what's was going on and hopefully calm some nerves!!

Infold and PPG were being blamed for the overseas mistrust of Chinese gaming companies. This was a VERY big topic over there right now. Again... all eyes are on us.

But... PPG would have released Valko easily if the state-media didn't get involved.

And so, we are 100% allowed to correct the course on this.

This doesn't dismiss the crimes that PPG has done to it's customers, but this also doesn't dismiss the countless of innocent people who lost their career, and the more that are about to follow as the sales of the company start to tank.

The extreme disappointment people were met with when they were able to showcase their baby.

And the literal world wide disappointment we all felt.

[Al | アルパカ @Alpackaaa]

��️‼️Hey there American girlies, good morning. Boy, look at what you're waking up to. Let me help explain what's going on so we're all on the right track. This is a multi thread, be sure to read it all. 🧵🧵

READ FULL THREAD TO GET THE FULL CONTEXT.

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This all started with a confirmation by a CN native: "state media commentary acts as a direct warning of incoming government bans."

So that's it, then. This is what caused it. Valko was being named by state media. Lets investigate the timeline.

Keep reading. 👇

[Liz | Chronic @chronicDaydr3mr]

Sorry y'all, I'm reviving this account for Valko. I've gotten way too invested in this game's lore and this fictional wolf man to not say something

#ValkoWasFramed #ValkoIsInnocent #BringBackValko

[Al | アルパカ @Alpackaaa]

If you think for one second #ValkoWasFramed isn’t worth it… watch this.

[Arin Hanson @egoraptor]

Having been a user of this software for more than half my life, seeing this announcement is shocking but completely unsurprising. I've never seen such blatant disdain for a product's userbase in my life, and this feels like the point it was almost destined to come to.

There are so many new applications for creating digital animation, but this one from the very beginning just had the juice. The irony of this all is that it wasn't built as an animation software, but for making interactive websites... ads, company portals, corporate shit. Multimedia projects created in this format were displayed using Flash Player, a browser supported plug-in.

Through Flash's entire lifetime, it felt as if Adobe was dragged kicking and screaming... never truly accepting the functionality it had organically developed as an artistic tool. From Adobe's perspective, it was the FORMAT that was the value; that is, they wanted Flash Player to be THE way to display multimedia across the web.

Adobe DID fight for Flash, but the fight was for dominance over web multimedia... in the oughts, it was THE way to display multimedia on your website. But little losses here and there, like Apple refusing to support the format for smart phones, lead to a steady decline. An adaptive shift to HTML5 support was added to Flash in order to maintain relevance, but the clear goal of total multimedia dominance was shattered. This shift marked the name change to "Animate"... a name that serves as a hollow non-acknowledgement of its consistently strong and loyal userbase of artists, but belies the gross truth of their true intentions: to continue to claw for dominance in the field of web-based multimedia.

Through all this, Flash/Animate continued to be an industry standard for digital 2D animation. Both independent and professional cartoonists utilized it to create beloved projects... even today. The corporate politics involved in the jockey for control of web-multimedia kept Adobe consistently blind to the voices of its most loyal users. One famous example is that Flash was notoriously terrible at exporting and rendering video from its proprietary vector-based format, so open-source software Swivel was developed by Mike Welsh to do it better. It may be difficult to understand this, but Flash was SO good, that even though it was consistently and profoundly broken, it was still often the tool of choice for animation.

The reason all this is important for me to convey is... There was a feeling this company gave animators through the lifetime of their product that we were not a priority. Even as it became a standard in the professional animation industry, we often felt like an afterthought in favor of the ultimate goal of corporate dominance. The fact that Flash/Animate happened to be a fantastic program for making cartoons was a complete accident... and Adobe only ever saw that as a cute little bonus.

So as we are getting more clarity around this decision to discontinue Animate... that Adobe sees this program as incompatible with their AI-based future goals... I think of how they've always operated: Staunchly anti-artist, anti-creative, and anti-human. This generative AI bullshit is nothing new, it is the next flavor of the same pathetic jockeying for corporate dominance. Artistic voices will continue to be ignored, while the artists they belong to will continue to be exploited. And that takes a mental toll on a creative mind. This announcement, to me, stands as a blatant admittance of this cycle. They do not care. And they never will.

We should care. Art is humanity. I am so grateful for this new renaissance of indie animation, and am doubly grateful and honored to be a part of it. It is so easy for corporations like Adobe and even just normal people to discount the value of art, both for its own sake and for its influence on the world. But it IS important. Your art is important and YOU are important. Please continue to create. Even if for no other reason than just to spite these motherfuckers.

[Liz | Chronic @chronicDaydr3mr]

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