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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

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[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you really surprised these gachas attract tons of horny teenage coomers with waifu baiting as a business model?

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 73 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Games that are in the business of selling anime girls end up attracting a certain demographic. And as the developers know who their audience is and double down on catering to that crowd, this kind of behavior becomes increasingly normalized over time.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Exhibit A: the hilariously horny official trailer for Jane Doe

[–] CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 months ago

There are feet in the camera's face within... eight seconds. I'm surprised, but I can't say I'm shocked.

Aside from that, it is a curious decision to make the first person camera a woman. I thought their target audience would be young men? It's certainly a larger potential audience than lesbians, although hey, not like I mind that choice ;3

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[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I would argue Shantae is definitely horny, the games have some innuendo jokes specially the DSi one.

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I was just pulling your leg. Being a goofy goober. 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.

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[–] Eggyhead@fedia.io 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I would guess the absurdity is the point. People trying to make each other laugh. If it bothers you, you don’t need to be there.

[–] Buttflapper@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You say this, but on TikTok people are genuinely so serious when they comment on stuff about the game and Zenless. "I need her bro" or “I'd do anything for her"

[–] Eggyhead@fedia.io 13 points 6 months ago

Well then let them. It’s no skin off your back and no one else is actually getting hurt, so just ignore it.

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

The thing abaout "waifu culture" is that most people do not actually think or act like fictional anime characters are real people. They do it to troll, or be funny, or act stupid, whatever. Like circlejerk subreddits or other online boards where there is some joke that gets perpetuated that everyone in the community thinks is hilarious but everyone outside thinks is stupid.

Yes, there are a tiny few that do, but not a significant number of people actually think that way.

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago

People went anonymous online and lost all shame.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Average anime community

It's because these games sell their characters on sex appeal

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 33 points 6 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.

[–] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

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. I recommend you to watch the newest Jane Doe trailer on the Zenless channel, this is the target demographic.

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[–] _Sprite@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

Average anime sub behavior

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 months ago

Fucking weebs.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Man, if I had any illusions about Lemmy being filled with literal children, this thread would clear them right up. Sexual objectification is gross and it does have consequences, y'all.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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)_/¯

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[–] aciDC14@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Horny men will be horny. (And women)

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 6 months ago
[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 17 points 6 months ago

Why not? This is the internet let people say shit

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ok, but she IS pretty cute. Mainly because of the fluffy ears tho.

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago
[–] EABOD25@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago

You ever had that cringy feeling that you can feel in the back of your neck? That's where I'm at

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago

Because they are 14?

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

...have you played a Hoyoverse game? They have something for everybody. Femboy, straight, furry, sharks, Ace, we've have it all!

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Incels gonna incel

[–] sag@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Are you surprised that anime fans are sexually attracted to their characters?

They sometimes do it with clearly underage characters too!

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[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago

I don't think this is exclusive to the HSR and GI communities.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You'd think the mods would want to remove shit like that because what in the fuck, but I guess not?

[–] Buttflapper@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

They banned me from the subreddit for low karma because I was responding to people telling them how gross those kind of comments were, and that of course decreases your karma. They also remove people's comments if they are not directly praising this kind of behavior. Any sort of controversial comments don't show up there for that exact reason.

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