harleybun 🐰

they • 33 • queer, trans, autistic • video editor • twitch streamer • 3 bunnies in a trenchcoat • probably on some bullshit • pfp @marsevere

[harleybun 🐰 @queerbunny_]

Hi! I'm Harley, a freelance video editor for content creators, and a Twitch streamer!

You can find out more about my editing here ▶️ https://t.co/iqA0EpY2fU

You can watch my Twitch streams here ▶️ https://t.co/1HUN7roKSv

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Ty! ☺️♥️

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World quests again

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World quests~

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World quests!!

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@666bloodrose666 Chicken curry with naan is like one of the most popular foods in the UK, bro is just stupid

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Finishing archon quest!

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Mcfuckin snezhnayaaaa

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SNEZHNAYAAAAAA

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Pokemoooooon

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Genshin -> pokemonnnn

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More legends dlc :3

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Genshin then splatooooooon raiders with fwens!

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Finishing fontinalia!

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Finishing fontinalia event!

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More yuri!

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[SteamedBunX @SteamedBunBunX]

Let's talk about the real purpose of doomposting, and who these videos are actually made for.

Every year, right before Genshin opens a new region, the same pattern repeats. Channels nobody has ever heard of appear out of nowhere with suspiciously high production value. Clean editing, pro thumbnails, confident narration. They introduce themselves "as a longtime Genshin player," then explain why the game has gone bad, why it's dying, why it's over.

Their points sound convincing for about thirty seconds, then collapse the moment you apply any actual thought, because the deeper these videos go, the more factually wrong they get.

These channels drop one or two videos, then vanish forever. And the exact same wave hits every local Hoyo creator scene at the same time. Different languages. Same talking points. Fully synchronized.

One guy doing this is an opinion. But when dozens of channels doing it, timed to every major content drop, then deleting themselves afterward. That's a planned, coordinated campaign.

And here's the part everyone misses:

Doomposting is not targeted at people who know the game. It's targeted at people who DON'T.

And it works.

I was on my friend's stream just earlier and he unironically asked me, "Do you still play Genshin? I heard it's dying." I told him the game is doing just fine. His answer: "huh, that's just what all the youtubers said."

He has never played Genshin. He has zero way to tell truth from lies. Every confident, well-produced video the algorithm fed him said the game is dead, so that became his reality. Most people accept the first thing they see and never look further. And even the ones who do? That first impression is already burned in. Doomposting doesn't need to convince YOU. It just needs to be the first thing a stranger sees.

In China, this tactic is called counter-marketing. You can't stop a competitor from advertising, but you CAN poison the algorithm around them. So when the new region trailer drops and a curious potential player searches the game, they get bombarded with "THE FALL OF" / "IT'S OVER" / "THE END OF" videos engineered to hook them in the first second. Every dollar your competitor spends on marketing now delivers fresh eyeballs straight into your wall of negativity. Traffic, redirected.

And whether it's the one-video ghost channels or the "creators" whose entire brand is built on slandering Hoyoverse, most of it grows from the same root, and that root has real money behind it. Paid corporate slander (黑公关, literally "black PR") is a billion-dollar industry in China, and it only became fully, explicitly illegal under the law last year. That's also likely why HoYoverse is now suing Bilibili, and going after creators who took sponsorships from account-selling companies and competitor games while pumping out anti-Hoyo slander for traffic.

So the next time a brand-new channel with a Hollywood budget shows up two weeks before a region launch to inform you that one of the biggest live-service games on the planet is "dying," ask yourself one question:

Who was this video actually made for?
It's for People who's never played. It's for people who's just become interested. And it already working on them.

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Yuri on water (fontaine)

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Back to the moon!

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We're going to the moon!!!!!

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Somebody just bought me a coffee on Ko-fi! https://t.co/72VyTosB4b

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Smella and J just bought me a coffee on Ko-fi! https://t.co/72VyTot8TJ