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Back in my day for otome games we’d just say which ‘route’ was our favourite and how many times we repeated it in otome games ☝️🤓 there wasn’t much discourse of who we ‘main’ and how we ‘betrayed’ a li for perusing another route
Here are my thoughts on the Valko boycott. A LOT has happened, so I've done my best to summarize the timeline and provide some additional insight, as well as tactics to keep in mind in order to avoid burnout. It's long, so thank you for reading! #ValkoIsLoved#BringBackValko
I’m saying this again - whether it’s Zayne or Rafayel or anyone, you can never and should never pressure people to boycott or act on your terms. People have to do so willingly, and a no spend boycott will have the most impact THEN a no-login. Even with active users being a KPI, nothing speaks like money. Let people make their choices, be kind and open to explaining your pov to those willing to listen and keep advocating for what you truly believe in. 💚
Sad they unlisted the Love and Deepspace 6.0 livestream video because this live performance of Valko’s song was sick af, the guitar soloist was absolutely shredding it 😌
#ValkoIsLoved
I need to say something, and I'm not going to be diplomatic about it.
There are voices in this community right now pushing for a class-action lawsuit against Infold from the US. I want to be absolutely clear: I do not support this. I will never support this. And I'm asking every single person reading this to think before they follow that path.
Here's what a lawsuit does:
— It turns our campaign from "players who love Valko" into "Americans suing a Chinese company." That's the headline. That's all anyone will see.
— It gives every hater, every state media outlet, and every person who wanted Valko gone exactly what they need to paint us as hostile foreigners.
— It hands Infold an excuse to never engage with us. Why would they listen to a community that's suing them?
— It destroys the cultural bridge we've spent weeks building with CN players who support Valko's return.
— And legally? Valko was never released. Nobody paid for him directly. The case has no foundation. It would be dismissed, and the only thing left would be the damage to our reputation.
And here's the thing that makes this even more frustrating: the bridge IS working.
Right now, our sisters in China are creating videos debunking what state media said about Valko and changing public opinion from the inside. One of the most popular videos already has 43K likes and 24K comments, the majority positive. CN players are doing the hardest, most dangerous part of this fight: challenging their own media narrative on their own platforms, in their own language, at their own risk. And they're winning.
That is what real advocacy looks like. Not a lawsuit filed from the safety of California.
We have 230,000+ signatures. We have charity campaigns with real-world media coverage. We have CN polls showing 69% of players would leave without Valko. We have the sealed June 29 statement proving Infold defended his name 24 hours before being forced to cancel him. And now we have CN creators shifting public opinion in real time. THAT is our case. Not a courtroom.
And while I'm here, I'm also not going to stay quiet about something else.
If you are attacking another game's characters by calling them ugly, you are doing the exact same thing the haters did to Valko. The exact same thing. You cannot say "Valko deserves love and respect" and then turn around and trash another game's designs. That's not advocacy. That's hypocrisy. And if anyone in the CN community screenshots that behavior next to our hashtags, we lose everything those creators are building.
And if you're out here saying "never trust Chinese games", you need to sit down and think about what you're actually saying. Valko IS a Chinese game character. Made by Chinese artists. Written by Chinese writers. The people fighting hardest to bring him back ARE Chinese players. Painting an entire country's gaming industry as untrustworthy because one company made a decision under pressure is not criticism. It's xenophobia. And it has no place in this campaign.
This campaign was built on three things: verified facts, visible love, and cultural respect. If your actions contradict any of those three pillars, you are not helping Valko come back. You are making it harder.
I didn't spend weeks building something real, the wolf conservation project, the charity donations, the fact-checking, the bridge with CN players, to watch it get buried under a lawsuit headline and screenshots of us doing what the haters did.
Block those people. Draw the line. Love is stronger than hate.
#BringBackValko #ValkoIsLoved
"You don't want ppl to remove any part of the game on a whim. Removing Valko is anti-consumer rights. Why would you support this?"
Oh I like this guy 😌 he's got great videos on this situation
https://t.co/TqNnsZ5jty
#ValkoIsLoved#Valko#BringValkoBack#WeLoveValko
We thought Onychinus was evil and behind the bombing of our family - they weren’t and Sylus was not involved.
We had negative perceptions of the Farspace Fleet and still do - But Caleb is working toward his OWN motives within the fleet.
Zayne was going to “assist” on X-heart, a research endeavour built from his own original research during university, through the story we see he was trying to undo all the work they attempted off of his research and was vehemently against them.
These stories all are slapping you in the face with the idea that things are not like what they seem on the surface, that the writing with subvert your expectations and characters are not one-dimensional. No character functions on the most basic initial way you see them, they’re all deeper and more complex with their own motives and navigating the world with their own responsibilities. Eoncore may work with EVER and Valko may be their chairman, but ESPECIALLY with how the other non-launch love interests go against expectations, the precedent of the writing is telling you if you just think about it Valko is doing more than what you are first made to think about him.
This is why I always say LADS writing is deeper than the surface because despite have 5 Love Interests with layered writing, some people are so stuck on the surface of all their characters and narratives STILL. It does a disservice to the characters and stories we have as well as the ones we are waiting for.
#ValkoIsLoved #BringValkoBack #BringBackValko
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LOOK: Philippine Love and Deepspace fans watch an LED billboard displaying the removed character Valko at a mall in Makati City on Saturday, July 11.
The fan-led initiative aims to showcase the game's sixth love interest and protest his removal by developer Papergames
#Valko
AND THEY SAID VALKO DIDN'T LOOKED ASIAN AT ALL, GURL LOOK AT THIS HANDSOME MAN??????????????????????????????????????????? they pulled our little wolf outside the game assets and put him on a filipino boyband.
#Valko#WeLoveValko#ValkoIsLoved#JusticeForValko#恋与深空#敖尹 #LoveAndDeepspace #LADS #BringValkoBack #SaveValko #BringBackValko #LADSValkoReturn #ValkoMustDebut #ValkoIsInnocent
you know what gives me hopium? nobody in the dev team has leaked any of Valko’s concepts and cards yet—Sylus style. they still want to keep it under wraps, they don’t want to throw it yet, which means they’re saving it for another day
Oh my god I take back what I said Zayne ha had the most horrific bug in the game baby you look as mess you’re embarrassing me
(Still would… it’s Zayne ok😔)