paola ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

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[paola ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ @tteolkoi]

@xyz_home how long do you think it will take for them to stop talking about ♻️? i’m sick and tired of looking at the comments under lads instagram posts all talking about that dog. didn’t they say they were going to stop playing? then why haven’t they? they’re sooo annoying

[ּ ֶָ 🪽riri @ririsandroses]

Can the ♻️ stans just fuck off already? Y'all barking and begging in the replies and qrt for a statement even though y'all got your closure and statement more than a month ago which you won't acknowledge. Now delete the game like you promised and leave.
#LADSValkoCanceled

[paola ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ @tteolkoi]

@theplastwithcat @xsenyoun at that point its their fault tho,im all for protecting minors from 18+ stuff BUT them being sneaky shouldnt be a reason to negate 18+ content to a whole audience

[°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ @guidinst4rlight]

if i have to choose between keeping the game or server shutdown just for one character…ill pick keeping the game yall.. im so attached to xavier i cant let go

[Jay @JayShan0506]

I'm a CN player. I'm a Caleb stan. And I'm done being polite about this.

You don't get to call an entire player base racist while knowing absolutely nothing about what actually happened. So sit down and read.

CN players didn't wake up one morning and decide to cancel a character because of his skin color. We spent 500+ days waiting for main story updates that never came. We watched the company fail to deliver content for five existing characters while announcing a sixth — breaking an explicit promise of "no new love interests." In 2025, Love and Deepspace ranked #1 on China's largest consumer complaint platform with 3,406 cases about unequal resource distribution. This rage was years in the making. Valko was the last straw, not the cause.

Then we found a drug experimentation record inside the game numbered 0731. If that means nothing to you, that's your ignorance, not our problem. Unit 731 was a Japanese military program that conducted live human experiments — vivisections, biological warfare, forced infections — on thousands of Chinese civilians and POWs during WWII. The in-game record included the name 严颂, a phonetic match to Japanese researchers from the unit, within a full narrative of injection protocols, endurance testing, and forced mental control. Players reported this through customer service when it first launched. It was ignored. The company later called it "a random placeholder number." Six state media systems, a national think tank, and a prosecutor's office publicly called that a lie.

Now let me tell you why you had no idea about any of this.

The company deliberately gutted every trace of Chinese identity from your version of the game. Chinese New Year's Eve was deleted from the script. The Lantern Festival greeting was removed across every language version — Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean — while the holiday imagery was kept, proving it was a deliberate directive, not a translation choice. Mid-Autumn Festival was renamed to a fictional name. Christmas and Halloween? Kept their real names. Chinese text was manually redrawn out of cutscene animations. Chinese food was erased from date scenes — four date menus, zero Chinese dishes, in a game made by a Chinese company. A calligraphy illustration had its Chinese characters scrubbed for international release. A government-backed collaboration promoting Chinese sports culture at the Asian Winter Games was posted three times domestically and zero times on any international channel.

You were handed a product that was systematically stripped of its origin. And now you have the audacity to tell us our concerns don't matter — while consuming a game built on Chinese players' money and Chinese creators' labor.

The apology letter you received was also different from ours. Your version said "we weren't ready to introduce Valko." Our version acknowledged broken promises, failed content delivery, and systemic trust collapse. Same company, same decision, two completely different explanations — designed so that you'd blame us instead of them. And it worked. Here you are, calling us racist, while the company that lied to both of us watches from the sidelines.

And let me be absolutely clear about where things stand right now. This is no longer a player dispute. This is no longer about your feelings or ours. The Chinese government has taken notice. As of today, state media outlets at every level — from central party organs to provincial papers, from the national women's federation to the legal system — have published critical coverage demanding accountability. A prosecutor's office has issued a formal legal characterization of the game's content as violating regulations on public morality and national sentiment. State media are calling for the company to undergo "fundamental reform." Whether this company can survive what comes next is an open question.

Your anger in our comment sections changes nothing. The character was not cancelled because of tweets or Reddit threads. It was cancelled because institutional power stepped in. And that same institutional power is still escalating, not retreating. You are screaming at the wrong people about a situation you fundamentally do not control and do not understand.

So no. We are not "xenophobic" for refusing to let a company monetize our historical trauma. We are not throwing "toddler tantrums" for demanding accountability after 500 days of broken promises. And we are certainly not going to apologize for defending a position that our own government, our own judiciary, and our own national media have now publicly endorsed.

You want to be angry? Be angry at the company that decided you didn't deserve the truth.

Or don't. But understand this: your ignorance was manufactured, your outrage was engineered, and the people you're defending don't even respect you enough to tell you the same story they told us.

One last thing. Before you reply, ask yourself whether you can dispute a single fact in this post — not with feelings, not with "well I don't care about 731," not with "China is racist" — but with a single verifiable fact that proves anything I said is wrong. If you can't, then you don't have a counterargument. You have a reaction. And reactions don't change reality.

Every claim above is backed by public data, official media coverage, in-game evidence, and documented company behavior. If you choose to ignore all of it because it's easier to blame Chinese players than to confront what this company did to all of us, that's your choice. But don't mistake your comfort for the truth.

[Leena♡~ @ZaylusWifie]

Ppl who think infold would take such a huge decision SOLELY because of CN girlies and not because of the many other mistakes made by the company such as mismanagement and poor communication are genuinely stupid. No company will straight up cancel a huge project simply+

[paola ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ @tteolkoi]

@MissQinEsty i’m just going to be so pissed off if they shut down the servers or delete the game just because of these people bruh

[paola ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ @tteolkoi]

@l1lmoonchild @thewindknewher yup that’s what i heard too. and the fact that none of the devs liked or wanted valko to be released tells me everything i needed to know about his character 💀

[paola ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ @tteolkoi]

@chocokimmie_00 @kagaminekinnie @flowerhaez no one is upset he’s christian we’re only pointing out that he’s acting like a weirdo and maybe religion could be one of the reasons. i only said that because seeing the “nature” of his new agency and the way he’s been acting lately reminds me of religious psychosis that’s it

[paola ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ @tteolkoi]

@kagaminekinnie @flowerhaez woah i didn’t even know that
well he seems to be actually doing that so! 🫩

[𝔞𝔯𝔦 🍨 @rbytarb]

they're sitting in a 3:1 ratio

[paola ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ @tteolkoi]

@maaartymcfly21 @TXTChartData @moodswingsdsrdr sameee that’s crazy

[cu @cudoanton]

era tanta buceta molhada esperando por ele q começou a chover

[💬 @translatingTXT]

txt just won inkigayo, making this their career’s first ever grand slam by winning all 5 music shows this week!!!!!!

[최연준 @kaittozutto]

whatever the fuck going on in txt dorms

[ki @qrthyunz]

and theyre both cats

[paola ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ @tteolkoi]

@2ubatu the fact that bighit CAN avoid using ai, because they have the resources to make actual art, and they still choose to use it and make slop… knowing damn well the boys are against it… this is making me foam bruh