I can’t be the only one who finds this stuff Just the slightest bit revolting, right? Like … Wow. I’m at a loss for words
Are you really surprised these gachas attract tons of horny teenage coomers with waifu baiting as a business model?
Why is the community for Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact like this?
Submitted 2 months ago by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The characters all look underage af too
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Man, am I glad I grew up with less horny games. Like Tomb raider, Metroid or Shantae.
The real reason is probably that we said comparable stuff, just as whispers and not written in an anonymous forum. And we weren’t even egged on by forum culture or our games to be as horny as possible, the former drives engagement while the ladder drives sales.
papertowels@lemmy.one 2 months ago
I was going to say, there were definitely horny games but you wouldn’t talk about them in the open.
Honestly genshin and honkai aren’t even that bad. You want a bad one, look at nikke. Ass and titties jiggle physics: the game.
yamanii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would argue Shantae is definitely horny, the games have some innuendo jokes specially the DSi one.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why would you read this very specific list of games and think I was earnest?
Tomb raider had infinitely many rumours about a nude-cheat because boys were so thirsting about Lara Croft, while Metroid and Shantae reward fast playthroughs with bikini pics.
Lautaro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And 3D boobs in the 3DS.
shasta@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Do they hit people with the ladder if they don’t buy?
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People went anonymous online and lost all shame.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some do it just to meme or be funny. Especially ones that make these kinds of posts.
The ones you really have to worry about are the ones that get mad when you mention something about a character that is not accurate. They will publicly execute you. Worry about those ones.
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I don’t know the context of the meme but i guess she doesn’t look like that in the game or something? They did their waifu dirty? These jokes seem quite harmless and light.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s the thing, the whole waifu crap.
Like people talk about it as if they’re real persons and treat them as such. It’s borderline psychotic.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In the game, she supposedly has well defined muscles, and slightly larger breasts I guess? I haven’t looked at her enough in the game to really remember it by heart.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Average anime community
It’s because these games sell their characters on sex appeal
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This type of behaviour is neither new, nor actively harmful. There’s really nothing you, I or anyone else can do to stop it, so the only remaining choice is to ignore it and not post screenshots in different communities where people agree with you.
yamanii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No? Welcome to gachas, don’t even pretend girls don’t want to be put on the wall by their daddies, there are plenty of thirsty traps with the dudes on TikTok.
These are games made to sell you waifus and husbandus, they are appealing by design.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I highly recommend this video that explains gacha games and how they objectify women and sometimes men.
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The absolute irony of clicking this link and being met by an ad for some gacha game featuring ample-chested anime characters
sas41@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Moon Channel is great!
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I get an extreme amount of secondhand embarassment reading these comments don’t get me wrong but at the end of the day its just some people doing some weird jokes on the internet. Even if the things they say are their actual worldview nearly everyone on the internet lacks the influence in the real world to enforce their worldviews to the masses so what does it matter if they say such stuff on the part of the internet where their kind of people usually hang out. I’d say live and let live in this case. No need to hate your fellow humans just because they hold different opinions than the popular ones or the ones you hold.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Nah, objectification of people is fucking gross. That doesn’t change if you say “it’s just a joke, bro.” And it does matter when enough individually powerless people take up an idea. That’s literally how movements start. Like the MRA movement, for example, and now we have Andrew fucking Tate.
tomalley8342@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But they do not take up the idea, because they do not take it seriously. That is what it means to have a joke, no?
_Sprite@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Average anime sub behavior
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Fucking weebs.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Man, if I had any illusions about Lemmy being filled with literal children, this thread would clear them right up.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
but what if the thing being objectified is a sex toy?
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
“but what if <unrelated situation made up just to be contrarian>?”
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
At first, I thought this was a screenshot from Lemmy and thought what the hell. Then I saw that it’s Reddit and all my questions got answered. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine thinking reddit is the only internet forum with gross idiots.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I don’t? There’s also 4chan.
Well, jokes aside, I’m not of the opinion that humans are either gross idiots or non-gross idiots. I rather think that their social context brings out the gross that lives in all of us.
Reddit is big enough that people feel even more anonymous there, and that there’s enough people willing to share their gross interests to form communities. When those communities exist, you also get an influx of users specifically looking for all of that. Lemmy is just not big enough.
Summzashi@lemmy.one 2 months ago
Jus your standard weebs
aciDC14@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Horny men will be horny. (And women)
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
(And fish)
lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 months ago
Why not? This is the internet let people say shit
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
IMO any content that idolizes immature bodies is bound to attract the worst human beings possible, by design.
30p87@feddit.org 2 months ago
Ok, but she IS pretty cute. Mainly because of the fluffy ears tho.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I agree with you. I think this is definitely one of their cutest characters. I really like the cat girl character design when it’s harmless and light-hearted. People get so into this stuff and act like they are real
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Because they are 14?
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 months ago
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
…have you played a Hoyoverse game? They have something for everybody. Femboy, straight, furry, Ace, we’ve have it all!
EABOD25@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You ever had that cringy feeling that you can feel in the back of your neck? That’s where I’m at
Phegan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Incels gonna incel
riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you surprised that anime fans are sexually attracted to their characters?
They sometimes do it with clearly underage characters too!
SassyRamen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I take offense! I watch anime, but I’m not a fucking slug like this creeps.
half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like to do a quick Goog and post the character’s age whenever an anime pfp floats up into hot
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The characters aren’t real
sag@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Ever visited r/ULTRAKILL?
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I mean, correct me if i’m wrong, but didn’t the ultrakill community kinda invent the “sex update” Steam reviews joke?
sag@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yep, We… I mean they are so horny.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
At some point Gianni has to stop accepting thirstpost dubs
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I don’t think this is exclusive to the HSR and GI communities.
Zozano@lemy.lol 2 months ago
I don’t care about her boobs, I just in desperate need a wind-type carry.
Tingyun better show up this patch.
Also what’s going on with Luocha?
RiQuY@lemm.ee 2 months ago
There are 2 problems here.
- The company drawing a (probably underaged) character drawing nude with a towel.
- The player base sexualizing a (probably underaged) character.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Being ironically horny on Reddit is a thing. Have you seen r/Ultrakill or stuff like that.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
This is a big reason why inceldom has risen imo. Not because of the content, but because of groups of men all reinforcing this behavior.
Now, I won’t lie, roleplay or imagination is one thing, but going online and normalizing this behavior in public is a very very different. Thing, and changes and normalizes that it’s okay to do around real women. Thoughts and behaviors change, and then they wonder why real actual women want nothing to do with them.
In essence, hey if impregnation is your kink, you do you. You talk that way in public? Pretty weird bro.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I haven’t seen it nearly this bad until this year. This is the worst year I’ve ever seen for it, and Hoyo games are by far the worst
It seems like it’s worse than that. I’ve seen people making extremely inappropriate comments about young characters. For example in Zenless Zone Zero subreddit, there are people that post pictures of the young characters that look like children, Piper and a few others that I don’t recall off the top of my head. But they are half naked and fan art of them in extremely suggestive positions. Borderline pedophilia but it’s a made up fictional character so they claim it doesn’t count and it’s perfectly fine. Such a strange view on reality
Poayjay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not to disagree with anything you’re saying, but I hate the phrase “borderline pedophillia.” Either they’re sexualizing children or not. It’s like saying “non-consensual sex.” There’s no such thing. It’s rape or consensual sex.
Jarix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There IS a difference between reality and fantasy. We see it all the time.
There is an actual fetish for consesual non consent aka rape fantasy/roleplay. If we allow that people routinely engage in fake rape, then why are you surprised if anything else is sexualized. People are weird.
But is it not just as disturbing to you when people glorify violence and gore such as the Saw franchise?
I do not understand the attraction to these things either, but I dont think its healthy to pretend that reality and fantasy cant be separated.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Congrats for lasting this far. I quit the anime world years ago when it became clear that that shit was becoming the norm, and 95% of products specifically catered to that demographic.
Glide@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I genuinely know more women than men that act like this. I can’t say you’re entirely wrong about the problems with normalizing behaviour and the like, but simplifying it to “men are disgusting and know nothing of 'real, actual women” when real, actual women are sometimes equally disgusting is, well concerning.
This particular brand of behaviour is usually about rejection of social norms far more than it is ever about the objectification of women. People who have been rejected by society like to take back the power by rejecting the norms of that society.
Soulg@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s not what incels are but go off