#hypergryph

[setzeri]

Amiya's big jacket & the return of Doctor's cool Sonic jacket.

#arknights #amiya #doctor #hypergryph

[gacha-incels]

“Arknights/Limbus Company/etc is obviously very political, why are these incels playing it?” Here’s a longer answer if you’re interested.

If you haven’t been watching gacha communities for the past decade this might be confusing to you, but these guys see the games as just apolitical stories with a majority or all-female cast being there to titillate the male viewer. They are for his consumption. It’s why in both eastern and western “gacha game” communities you can see them talking about how these games are better for having “beautiful” anime women versus the hideous hags of western media. I’ve seen so many people asking “how are incels playing a game with so many strong female characters?” They see them not as “strong female” characters but rather “eyecandy made for me”. tbh when it comes down to it I wouldn’t call any of the designs in these games absolutely groundbreaking for the anime genre they’re aiming for. Arknights even follows the standard “fully animal faced-guy” and the female equivalent “small featured anime animal girl with some fur”. This doesn’t mean the designs are bad or you’re foolish for enjoying them of course, there are a lot of fun ones. Anyway, you can see the same sentiment in the majority of anime communities as well. Like do you think that stereotype of an anime nerd who “loves 2D women but hates 3D women” means he’s a feminist because the 2D girl is still female?

To be frank, after some of the actions taken by these companies (ex. the firing of women for posting anything vaguely feminist) can you honestly say an “apolitical game with anime babes” is not the way the games are often enjoyed? The company Yostar who publishes Arknights in Korea literally wrote a statement saying the game is apolitical and calling feminism a dividing force. If the publisher can say something so flippantly like this just to appease their incel fanbase, how can the game be making any meaningful, hardline progressive political statements? I am of course not saying this renders any positive message you get from these games moot nor am I saying it’s impossible for the writers to be passionate about their work, I’m just relaying the thoughts of the incels/“gacha gamers” playing them because there seems to be confusion. What I’m writing here doesn’t mean the worst interpretation of these games are their defining interpretations. I’m trying to explain how the games that many people see as being antithetical to incel beliefs can have these same men as high-spending fans.

Gacha games are unique in the world of consumer media in their extremely close and constant relationship with the consumer. You have to not only love each character’s design (and sometimes story) but also be willing to drop serious gambling money to “buy” them every single month. It’s like merchandizing on steroids. I think the term “whale” has been watered down since younger kids have started playing, but these people spend thousands per patch. Over the years I’ve heard about multiple games like this being sustained by just a couple of high spenders. In 2018 there was even a western news article about a man who had spent $70k+ on FGO. The publisher can’t rock the boat too much to displease the consumer too many times without risking EoS. Every character design and story of a gacha game is affected by this FIRST while any artistic intent comes second.

A Korean woman who had lost her job due to similar “feminist hunting” tactics wrote an article describing the way these incel men think. I posted it here and part of it summarized: the men that play these games see themselves as buying and “owning” the female characters in gacha games, who are often dressed and presented to them in a highly sexualized manner and will obey their commands. In the same way they “own” these 2D women, they also want to own the thoughts of the real live female illustrators who work on the games. Therefore, if these women have expressed ideas that the male gamers find upsetting, they will be angry she doesn’t conform to what they want like the servile 2D girl and do everything to get her fired (this is where she mentions Limbus Company as the most recent example of this happening).

You can argue for some of these games, maybe the girls aren’t dressed super provocatively and give (you) shit instead of being a simpering doll, but in the end it’s not like they can physically walk away or stop speaking to you. For the “waifu” hunter guy it’s just a different type of anime girl to collect.

The stories in these games are generally not what gets targeted as much by incels. In gacha “gamer” communities, especially the Korean incel ones, their main concerns are: how revealing are the summer swimsuits? How many women work for the company designing characters? and related, Are the male characters designed for women or for men and do they “look gay”? If you search through this blog, you can see them directly speaking about these things in regards to their hatred of Genshin Impact and Star Rail. All of these have also been encapsulated in the original Limbus Company incel attack: they hated that the summer female character looked more “clothed” (wearing a skintight suit instead of a bikini) than the male summer character. They thought the collar necklace and open shirt on the male summer character meant he was “a slave” for the female viewers, so obviously it was designed by a woman. When they learned a man designed and illustrated those characters, they searched to find a female illustrator who worked in the game and went after her instead. These guys WERE FANS that played the game beforehand and didn’t think anything in the story was upsetting enough to attack the company about. They were familiar enough with the works of Project Moon to name their little group after an antagonizing force in one of PM’s previous (non-gacha) videogames. And Project Moon saw them as such a significant part of their gacha fanbase that they wrote an immediate apology and fired the artist. How do these actions in reality inform their fiction and the interpretation of it? Getting this out of the way, they were NOT in any danger, the “fans” were not clamoring to get in their offices or camping outside, they were let in and calmly had a meeting with some employees at the office. You can still find photos of them goofing around, the ridiculous write up they brought with them and a transcript of the conversation. This was not a “guy shows up at Mihoyo’s offices with a knife” situation. In the end it was a financial and moral loss for the studio with many new and longtime fans completely dropping the games and Limbus Company taking one of the biggest financial and D/MAU drops for a gacha I’ve ever seen. You can read more regarding the ramifications of this here, this post is already pretty long for this website anyway.

Again I’m not writing this to shame anyone who plays these games, loves their characters or enjoys their stories. I don’t really care either way, and I obviously find the genre interesting or else I wouldn’t have been monitoring it and the fans for a decade. I just want to shine a light on the thoughts of the more “incel” gamers that play some of these games since I have seen a lot of genuine confusion as to why they would play them. In the future my aim is to write a more in-depth post about these issues, their history and the way antifeminists think.

#Arknights #yostar #hypergryph #project moon #limbus company #Genshin impact #long post #korean incel #incel ideology #gacha #fate grand order #fgo

[sleepyminty]

I like how pm fans just appear out of nowhere and now we are buddies now

#project moon #limbus company #library of ruina #lobotomy corp #blue epoch #reverse 1999 #r1999 #re1999 #hypergryph #arknights #*point at a knight* furioso #*point at druvis i2* ishmael #*point at dante and doctor*you two should kiss #fruits jumpscares

[catatonic-indifference]

#arknights #music #contingency contract #HYPERGRYPH

[hypergryph]

"I don't like the forest. What if I run into another monster?"

He's supposed to be scouting ahead, but he's not very good at it...

#flightrising #fr fanart #fr art #hypergryph #eggeaters #flightrisingart

[enyaliang]

I AM SO NORMAL I AM SO NORMAL I AM SO NORMAL I AM SO NORMAL I AM SO NOR-

#arknights #silence #olivia silence #saria #official arknights figure #them <3 #wait till i get ifrit #and we can have a family photo #casual wear saria my savior #hypergryph

[higumii1]

#arknights #アークナイツ #skadi #skadi the corrupting heart #hypergryph #skalter

[a-dream-seeking-light]

arknights cyberpunk fanart by 柱 ( @_youamo_ on tw )

#柱 @_youamo_ #柱 #@_youamo_ #_youamo_ #youamo #arknights #cyberpunk #fanart #illustration #anime #style #video games #mobile games #hypergryph #twitter #artists on twitter #motorbike #motorcycle #exusiai

[sugarpumqkin]

Did not post this on my main but I remember drawing this when I finally got Aak but from recruiment lmao. Go play arknights

#arknights #aak #furry #hypergryph #Healinghandevilheart

[setzeri]

Nearl drawn on a cardboard.

#arknights #nearl #hypergryph

[gacha-incels]

Statement document link

KGCS tweet link

#arknights #yostar #hypergryph #misogyny #korean game consumer society #Feminist ideological verification

[sleepyminty]

From genshin to whatever the fuck limbus and arknights are doing right now, how fun is your water stage of your game?

#project moon #limbus company #hypergryph #arknights #genshin impact #hoyoverse #genshin fontaine #fontaine #limbus spoiler #limbus canto v #arknights under tides #under tides #arknights stultifera navis #stultifera navis #happy rerun doctors #seaborns #arknights seaborns #limbus ishmael #the ocean #the ocean zone #the sunlight zone #the hadal zone #op is not an expert in oceanography #THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN

[whispeyrains]

Oooh hypergryph released a new illustration for their Ex Astris game! It unironically has more colour and interesting visual identity in it compared to almost all of what I've seen in Arknights Endfield art. Oop.

#hypergryph #ex astris #arknights #arknights endfield #kinda #wonder what platform the game will be on

[hypergryph]

Are you okay with other people using your egg eating lore? Canonically my clan is full of monsters and other beasts and I thought it'd be fun if there was an egg eater in the clan, perhaps directly inspired by hearing tales of Matthias.

#flightrising #fr art #hypergryph #eggeaters

[can-they-do-a-rko]

Hoshiguma (Arknights)

Can Hoshiguma perform a…

#rko auditions #yuugi hoshiguma #Hoshiguma #arknights #arknights polls #arknights posting #arknights Hoshiguma #Hoshiguma arknights #Madame oni #hypergryph #submitted by anonymous #fandom polls #polls #tumblr polls #character polls #poll time #wrestling polls #poll blog #poll game #hyper specific poll #wrestling

[enyaliang]

SHE HAS ARRIVED RAAAAAAAAAA

#arknights #arknights silence #olivia silence #silence the paradigmatic #arknights figure #my dear little eagle owl <3 #hypergryph