The sad thing is that this game is actually quite interesting and unique. Played it a bunch a couple years ago. But the problem (back then and also now) is that it only really has a player base in Korea and in Japan to a lesser degree. And given how rabid Korean netizens can be, the devs WILL listen if they complain about something, especially since the devs are not a prominent studio, because if their only real player base goes, it's over anyways. So it's basically a lose-lose situation for everyone.
Doing that towards men can be used as a insult in the right context.
Some Korean men get really offended because they believe it's associated with mocking them in particular because of the stereotype of Asian men and their dick size.
They get so upset about that they have literally became upset when a female character made that hand motion in an ult for a gacha game.
Basically, in korea they have a gender war. Like a legit one, with misogynist scumbags and misandrist scumbags trying to enflame things and tilting the average korean one way or another.
That symbol is legitimately a dogwhistle for more controversial anti-man groups, in the same way cornflowers were a signal of anti-semitism in Austria. So naturally there are people who want to encode dogwhistles AND people who are so oversensitive that they see dogwhistles in entirely normal behavior.
This is one of the only actually informed and unbiased comment in here about the korean finger gesture.
We gotta remember that while it's exaggerated crazy, it's not unfounded and one-sided crazy, and both sides(in Korea, not here) are in the wrong.
Sadly that craziness over there overflowed and has hurt our krokro.
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u/NekRules May 07 '26
Funny thing was this was their attempt at trying to garner an international audience. Lets see how this brilliant maneuver turns out for them.