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Black Myth: Wukong streamers asked not to mention “feminist propaganda” and COVID
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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By "feminist propaganda" they are probably referring to the false sexism allegations that game journalists have been using to slander the company.
https://www.ign.com/articles/how-black-myth-wukong-developers-history-of-sexism-is-complicating-its-journey-to-the-west Is this the sort of article you mean?
Yes. This article is one of them. There is no evidence of sexism. Just a bunch of mistranslated messages that once properly translated aren't sexist at all. IGN has already been called out for this, and the tweets have been community noted.
IGN did actually make a non-apology along the lines of "well they should have just commented on the accusations", but the studio has no obligation responding to accusation from a bunch of people of some dying medium. Ignoring them is no doubt the best thing the studio can do.
Other journalists have since also made stories covering this and know that the statements are false so they started using weasel wording such as "sexist remarks being attributed to" instead of "they said". It is so obvious that they're doing this on purpose to hurt the reputation of the studio.
I don't get how you're being downvoted for just stating facts.
It's not like you're making anything up without any actual evidence, and yet, people just want to hate anything with the words "sexist" or "DEI" because that means the party opposing them is automatically wrong.
It is unfortunately hard to convince someone once they've made up their mind.
But as long as people indifferent to the situation see my comment and get a fuller picture, I'm fine with it.
I tend to take a contrarian stance on a lot of things because if it turns out I'm wrong, people will correct me, and I learn something, so downvotes don't bother me at all.
It's not a contrarian stance when you're right, like in this case.
And people are still trying to convince you that you're wrong, so you have to ignore comments if you know you're right as well.
Maybe say that then? Rather than saying something that can only be construed as bigoted?
Maybe it was mistranslated? (Again)
Yeah, it's exactly what you said.
Ignore the downvotes; either people don't know the history of what the Devs went through, or ignore it on purpose.
What did they go through?
The studio refused an offer by Sweet Baby Inc of a 7m$ consultation. Right after that happened, games journalists like IGN started making articles accusing the studio of sexism. The "evidence" was several anonymous sources (in other words, made up, until at least one of them comes forward) and a few (possibly purposefully) mistranslated quotes that sound sexist in the mistranslations but are at most a little vulgar in the original language.
Even after the mistranslations were debunked, the journalists made no effort to retract or edit their articles, and as of today the only thing they have that could possibly paint the studio in a bad light are these anonymous sources but those cannot be verified and are therefore not valid. They're likely completely made up.
Harassment by bs activists. All because they didn't pay the Dei mob
Who are the activists and what does DEI have to do with this? I am very confused and you have answered with riddles.
Did you see the other post? That user summed it up perfectly
Ugh, g*mers.