[0:00] Stillerblade being reported to payment
[0:02] processors like Visa and Mastercard to
[0:04] be mass- censored or deplatformed is a
[0:06] pretty terrible situation that I'm glad
[0:08] that a lot of people are starting to
[0:09] pick up and talk about. And it's really
[0:11] bringing up the entire conversation of
[0:13] just uh honestly racism towards Asian
[0:16] media in general because in the last
[0:18] week and a half to two weeks we have
[0:20] just seen the absolute um hypocrisy from
[0:23] multiple different angles when it comes
[0:24] to just how the reaction to Stellar
[0:26] Blade was but to other media that is,
[0:28] you know, basically from the west. And
[0:30] I'm just going to show a few examples
[0:31] here just to start off the video. For
[0:33] instance, when um we had Stellar Blade
[0:35] Blood Rain come out, it had its trailer
[0:37] and Eevee kind of showcased her design.
[0:39] A few days prior to that, we had the
[0:40] stuff with God of War, and we got to see
[0:43] basically the uh Kratos removed. It's a
[0:45] spin-off game, yes, but Kratos was
[0:47] removed for a female character. And just
[0:49] to briefly dive into this topic, gamers
[0:52] are very tired of the very performative
[0:54] and uh just the act of making a girl
[0:56] boss-like character. There's nothing
[0:57] wrong necessarily with a female
[0:59] character in a lead role, but it's very
[1:01] clear by the way God of War was depicted
[1:02] and just how it was. It feels like a
[1:04] complete step away and that's something
[1:06] that people really wanted. What actual
[1:08] fans of God of War wanted, they want
[1:10] more Kratos because obviously when you
[1:12] play God of War, you don't think of just
[1:14] anyone else but probably Kratos. So, it
[1:16] caused a lot of backlash and there was a
[1:18] lot of individuals that were basically
[1:19] saying you're sexist or whatever if you
[1:22] don't like the female character or you
[1:23] think the female character is ugly from
[1:25] the new God of War game. And within like
[1:27] three days after that controversy
[1:29] started to kind of surround itself in
[1:31] the community and people are making a
[1:33] lot of videos on it, Starblade Blood
[1:35] Rain released its trailer. And the
[1:37] trailer obviously it was met with a lot
[1:39] of praise. But the same individuals that
[1:41] were very very protective of God of War,
[1:44] the new God of War game, they were very
[1:46] upset with Eve's Eevee's design. They
[1:48] were upset and they were going out of
[1:49] their way to even say that you're a
[1:51] weirdo, a creep, and potentially a PDF
[1:53] if you dare like the character design.
[1:56] saying that Shift Up and the CEO and
[1:59] everybody working on Stellar Blade are
[2:01] potential predators that are trying to
[2:03] basically make an underage looking
[2:06] character when if you look up like, you
[2:07] know, just Asians in general, they're
[2:09] very youthful and youthful looking in
[2:11] appearance. And so it just instantly the
[2:13] sheer hypocrisy on that is insane
[2:16] because the individuals that were
[2:17] preaching like uh you know you're sexist
[2:19] if you don't like this female character
[2:20] or a female character being in the lead
[2:22] role were turning around and turning on
[2:23] Stellar Blade even though there was a
[2:25] very beautiful female character in a
[2:27] lead role and controlling the game and
[2:29] everybody was being positive about it.
[2:31] So you you could just see right there.
[2:32] But the the entire situation doesn't
[2:35] just stop at that. Days after that,
[2:37] probably about like 4 days later, there
[2:39] was an announcement that the amazing
[2:40] digital circus was going to be being
[2:42] added to Fortnite and Pomni's design
[2:44] came out. Everybody started talking
[2:46] about it. I made a video talking about
[2:47] it a few days ago. And basically, the
[2:49] same individuals that were calling
[2:50] Eevee's design very creepy. The same
[2:53] individuals that think, for instance,
[2:54] Loi within fiction is very creepy and
[2:56] weird as well and that it should be
[2:58] completely eradicated even though it's a
[2:59] body type. Basically, the same
[3:01] individuals that were doing that are the
[3:03] same individuals that were defending
[3:05] Pomny's design and saying, "This
[3:06] character design is not a lolly design.
[3:08] It's not a lolly body type or anything
[3:10] like that." And just showing sheer
[3:12] hypocrisy. Man, you hear them bugs in
[3:13] the background? Holy crap. I think
[3:14] that's a cicada. But anyways, basically,
[3:17] we got to see just once again two
[3:19] different examples within under a week
[3:21] of just the sheer hypocrisy around
[3:23] Eevee's design. And a lot of people
[3:25] started kind of keying in on this that
[3:27] there was just one thing that was very
[3:28] different from let's say Pomni and God
[3:30] of War from Eevee. And that is Eevee was
[3:33] an Asian game. First off, she was very
[3:35] beautiful, but also it it's an Asian
[3:38] company that was working on Stellar
[3:40] Blade. And a lot of people started
[3:42] keying in on this and kind of looking at
[3:43] just different controversies that we've
[3:45] had, especially in just the last few
[3:47] years. I mean, just to do a brief little
[3:49] rundown, like, you know, just in this
[3:51] year alone, there's been a lot of
[3:52] different Asian games that were just
[3:54] basically deplatformed or removed from
[3:56] Steam for no reason at all. Not even
[3:58] with any adult content in it. And
[4:00] creators went to like, for instance,
[4:01] social media on Twitter to talk about
[4:02] how unfair this is and how they're being
[4:04] debanked for no reason. Or you have, for
[4:06] instance, individuals that do anime like
[4:08] art style and all that and they get
[4:09] commissioned to write art. PayPal
[4:11] actively investigates people off site to
[4:13] ban them. It is legitimately insane. You
[4:16] could just clearly see the attack on
[4:18] certain type of media and certain type
[4:20] of entertainment besides western media.
[4:22] And I think one of the big reasons why
[4:24] this is is because obviously anime like
[4:26] art style and media and stories is
[4:29] heavily exploding within the west. I
[4:32] mean anime's boom right now and manga
[4:33] boom is a very good example of that. And
[4:35] I think a lot of these western companies
[4:37] are very very scared and upset because
[4:40] obviously there is a lot of influence
[4:42] from the west that is basically
[4:43] crumbling apart. I mean, let's look at
[4:45] recent examples of like The Backrooms.
[4:47] The Back Rooms may be a western type of
[4:50] g like a movie, but it's being very
[4:52] successful and it's showcasing cracks
[4:54] within Hollywood and that people want
[4:56] something different from the traditional
[4:57] Western media. And I think that a lot of
[4:59] these companies are very upset that
[5:01] they're losing influence and so they're
[5:02] going out of their way in any way they
[5:03] possibly can to attack Japanese or
[5:06] Korean media and just Asian
[5:08] entertainment in general to make sure
[5:09] that it's not able to grow. They're just
[5:11] basically attacking it at its source to
[5:13] either censor itself or basically
[5:15] sanitize itself. And we know that this
[5:17] has been happening to anime for a very
[5:19] long time when it comes to
[5:20] localizations, but also basically
[5:22] localizers giving comments to having
[5:24] different Japanese companies censor
[5:26] their stuff on the cutting room floor.
[5:28] We know this type of stuff is happening.
[5:29] We do. I've covered this countless
[5:31] times. There's multiple articles on it,
[5:33] Reddit post and everything. A brief
[5:35] little diving into you can instantly
[5:37] find this type of stuff. And so it is
[5:40] very interesting what the Stellar Blade
[5:41] situation does. It showcases straight up
[5:45] the escalation of just not just um
[5:48] censorship of fictional content, but
[5:50] also just an attack on Asian culture
[5:52] itself and that they do not like the
[5:54] fact that it's getting such a massive
[5:56] spotlight and basically showcasing that
[5:58] the the average individual people that
[6:00] want to play games want games like that
[6:02] or that are fundamentally different
[6:04] instead of the same stuff we've been
[6:06] getting over and over from the west if
[6:07] you get my point. Now back into the
[6:10] stellar blade situation. Starblade
[6:12] honestly with the last day and a half
[6:15] with like all this controversy honestly
[6:17] when it comes to it being reported and
[6:19] then the petition as well and everything
[6:21] in between. I think it is definitely
[6:23] showcased a lot of hypocrites as well in
[6:25] the space on just how many individuals
[6:27] that legitimately do not actually stand
[6:30] for anti-censorship. A lot of
[6:31] individuals that like to parrot that
[6:33] they're, you know, anti-censorship but
[6:35] in reality they're not. They'll turn on
[6:37] a dime. It's it's really weird behavior.
[6:39] I've seen a lot of people that used to
[6:40] actually side with me on anti-censorship
[6:43] just suddenly going mask off. It's like
[6:45] I said, it's very jarring honestly. It's
[6:47] really shocking to me. But um besides
[6:50] that, we also have everything about like
[6:53] the Shift Up CEO. Like there's going to
[6:55] be a lot of pressure I think on the CEO
[6:57] and Shift Up and Stellar Blade in the
[7:00] coming months, especially in the next
[7:02] year before it releases because, you
[7:04] know, this is just the beginning. This
[7:05] is obviously PR for the game. This is
[7:07] definitely going to get people to buy
[7:08] the game, but I mean payment processors,
[7:10] they they hold a lot of power. They do.
[7:12] I mean, they got steam to buckle and
[7:14] bend and add an entirely new rule set on
[7:16] their site. So, Shift Up, to be
[7:18] completely blunt, they can't do anything
[7:20] about payment processors if their their
[7:22] eye of Sauron focuses in on them. That
[7:24] just you can't avoid that. So, it's very
[7:27] scary, honestly. And I am really
[7:29] terrified on if this situation is going
[7:32] to continuously escalate because you
[7:34] know truthfully you know all it takes is
[7:37] just a few handful of people and someone
[7:39] with the right connections to do some
[7:41] serious damage once again like
[7:43] collective shout did. And like I said
[7:45] the petition showcases just how few
[7:47] people are in support of censoring
[7:49] stellar blade besides the few select
[7:51] crazies. But the thing is is that all it
[7:53] does is take a few handful of people to
[7:55] really systematically destroy
[7:56] everything. And this kind of gets into
[7:58] kind of like the whole argument with
[8:00] anime and manga and just how like it's
[8:02] been getting censored quite a bit as
[8:03] well in the last few years and how
[8:05] there's just the the very bullies that
[8:07] um basically used to bully you for like
[8:09] let's say Naruto or Dragon Ball or One
[8:11] Piece are now within the community and
[8:13] bullying you if you like anything
[8:14] outside of those shows. We could just
[8:16] see all around there's a lot of attack
[8:17] from individuals that really want to
[8:19] change the space, censor the space, make
[8:21] you silent, different things like that.
[8:23] It's just uh it's got really annoying
[8:25] over like the the past few years and
[8:27] it's just I I I'm glad to see a lot of
[8:30] people are really starting to notice
[8:31] this just the toxicity around it or in
[8:33] this case noticing just how many people
[8:35] are really laring and just want to
[8:37] destroy anime manga and just gaming in
[8:40] general and they don't really care. They
[8:41] want it all for what they want. And if
[8:44] it's anything against what they want,
[8:45] their type of politics or ideals, they
[8:47] want it completely gone, completely
[8:49] censored. I mean, one good example of
[8:51] this is like the recent drama with um
[8:54] you know, the translations. I covered
[8:55] this a few days ago, but with the whole
[8:57] translations of like the unofficial
[8:59] translation, a lot of localizers that
[9:01] typically like to put like gender
[9:02] politics, gender identity, and different
[9:04] type of things that kind of, you know,
[9:07] shift towards left ideal or progressive
[9:08] type viewpoints, you know, those
[9:10] individuals were very upset with the
[9:12] translation of the manga series that got
[9:14] an unofficial translation a few days
[9:16] ago. And um basically they were like the
[9:19] translations need to be 1:1 Japanese
[9:21] accurate. And I'm like this is so
[9:23] hypocritical because the the same
[9:25] individuals that are trying to say it
[9:26] needs to be 1:1 are the same people that
[9:28] say it's impossible to make one to one
[9:30] adaptation or translations of Japanese
[9:32] content. And I'm like do you even hear
[9:34] yourself? Do you even know what you're
[9:36] doing or what you're saying? It's just
[9:38] like I said it's infuriating. It it's
[9:40] really infuriating just like seeing the
[9:43] increase of just hypocrisy, especially
[9:45] in the last few weeks. Um, but like I
[9:48] said, a lot of people seem to be kind of
[9:49] opening up their eyes and a lot of
[9:51] people that used to be kind of against
[9:52] me as well are actually starting to see
[9:54] what it really is for what it is and
[9:56] just honestly siding with me. So, that's
[9:59] that's really nice to see. But, I just I
[10:01] wanted to take a few moments to talk
[10:02] about this, get my overall thoughts on
[10:04] the situation out cuz honestly, I uh
[10:07] just am I the only one seeing it? like,
[10:09] you know, let me know. Like, am I crazy?
[10:11] Am I the only one seeing these type of
[10:13] issues that are escalating and stuff? Be
[10:15] honest. Um, but with that being said, I
[10:17] love you guys. You have a wonderful day
[10:19] or night wherever you live. Be safe.
[10:21] Stay healthy. She be out.