[0:00] I wish I was lying with the title of
[0:01] this video, but I am not. There is now
[0:03] people reporting Stellar Blade Blood
[0:05] Reign to Visa, Mastercard, and payment
[0:08] processors in general, echoing the same
[0:10] thing that we saw last year with
[0:12] Collective Shel. For those that need a
[0:14] very brief rundown on what this
[0:15] necessarily means, basically last year
[0:18] we had a lot of censorship, widespread
[0:21] censorship that kind of ushered in
[0:23] digital ID, age verification, and all
[0:26] sorts of other messes that we saw around
[0:27] the internet and we're still facing
[0:29] right now with Discord even trying to
[0:31] still implement age verification
[0:33] worldwide. And they're using tools to
[0:35] expand upon. There's been multiple
[0:36] articles in the last week of them just
[0:38] testing new things to force age
[0:40] verification. Dox yourself. But the
[0:42] point is is that where the origin story,
[0:44] the the uh the beginning of where this
[0:46] all started, at least last year, was
[0:48] Collective Shout, this Australian
[0:49] activist feminist group that basically
[0:52] contacted payment processors to get
[0:55] Steam and Itch.io and various other game
[0:57] platforms to remove icky taboo like
[1:00] games from their platform. Basically
[1:03] saying that anything that is of sexual
[1:04] nature, anything adult-wise or anything
[1:07] needs to be removed. And because of the
[1:09] pressure of Collective Shout, they
[1:11] managed to contact payment processors
[1:13] like Visa, Mastercard, PayPal to get
[1:15] them to call in Steam and like, "You
[1:17] better remove this or we're going to
[1:19] blacklist you and remove our ways of
[1:21] being paid off your service." Basically
[1:23] killing their company overnight. And
[1:25] this caused it.io, which is still facing
[1:27] problems to this very day. They had to
[1:29] remove a bunch off their platform,
[1:30] causing thousands upon thousands of
[1:32] developers to not have any ability to
[1:34] make money overnight. they lost their
[1:36] source of income, some going homeless.
[1:38] And then this goes into PayPal also
[1:39] cracking down on artist commissions.
[1:41] Basically, if you were to commission
[1:43] artwork and all that and get paid,
[1:44] PayPal would look into this and
[1:46] investigate you off site and remove your
[1:48] ability to make money as well. We have
[1:50] all sorts of things that transpired
[1:51] thanks to Collective Shout last year.
[1:54] And so, basically, we saw the damage
[1:55] they made. They caused Steam to bend the
[1:57] need, make an entirely new policy for
[1:59] payment processors and banks. And we
[2:01] have been seeing constantly, especially
[2:03] this year with a lot of different Asian
[2:05] and Japanese games being targeted by
[2:07] payment processors and banks and the
[2:09] pressure from Western entities and
[2:10] companies to basically do what they say
[2:13] or you're not going to make any money
[2:15] whatsoever, which is obviously a very
[2:17] bad thing. If you're a creator or a
[2:19] developer trying to make something and
[2:20] sell something, if a bank and a payment
[2:23] processor shuts you down, you you're
[2:25] kind of screwed. And so obviously, the
[2:26] only option you have is to censor your
[2:29] game to some degree. And we have seen
[2:31] where this has happened many times where
[2:33] many different websites had to buckle
[2:34] and bend to censor themselves. And so
[2:36] that gets into what we have today with
[2:39] the Stellar Blade, you know, controversy
[2:41] where you have individuals now trying to
[2:44] report Stellar Blade to payment
[2:45] processors to get it debanked,
[2:47] deplatformed, and censored and also
[2:50] removed physically from different stores
[2:52] like game stores and stuff like that,
[2:53] which is uh very horrifying. Now, where
[2:56] this all originated from was a form site
[2:58] called Reset Era. Now, I have known
[3:00] about the site for a while. I'm not like
[3:03] someone that browses them. I don't know
[3:04] everything about them and what they all
[3:06] talk about, but from my brief little
[3:08] browsing through the form that is
[3:09] associated with, you know, Stellar Blade
[3:11] Blood Rain, you can see a lot of these
[3:13] individuals, they are molding and upset
[3:16] about Stellar Blade or in this case,
[3:18] Eevee and her design. This is echoing a
[3:21] conversation I've been talking about
[3:22] basically for about a week now and how
[3:24] you have a lot of people that are I'm
[3:26] just going to be blunt mentally ill
[3:28] thinking that you know Eevee looks like
[3:29] a child has childlike features and that
[3:32] um Asian games problematic and all that
[3:34] type of stuff that just feels downright
[3:36] racist towards Asian people because the
[3:38] same people that are looking down on
[3:40] Eevee are pro like going out of their
[3:42] way to hype up Pomni with all her art
[3:44] and design in Fortnite. But um the point
[3:46] is is amongst this conversation and
[3:48] basically the molding on this forum. I'm
[3:50] just going to be honest looking at the
[3:52] political alignment here. I don't want
[3:54] to dive into it too deep, but just
[3:56] straight up they are very progressive
[3:57] individuals and very left-leaning. I'm
[4:00] just I'm going to say it like it is. You
[4:01] can read through this form yourself
[4:02] which I will link in the description and
[4:03] you can check it out. But basically,
[4:05] when you scroll down and you get towards
[4:07] the bottom, which is where the story
[4:08] begins today, you see that there was
[4:10] someone saying that they reported the
[4:12] game Stellar Blade and shift up to Visa
[4:15] and Mastercard. Now, at this current
[4:17] time, this account has been labeled
[4:18] troll account and also banned. However,
[4:21] I would like to point out though that
[4:22] this only started happening once news
[4:25] broke about this situation. For
[4:28] instance, when I made my initial post
[4:29] today talking about the situation of
[4:32] basically Stellar Blade, you know,
[4:34] having calls to get it, you know,
[4:35] debanked or deplatformed and a few other
[4:37] individuals like Pirate Nation as well
[4:39] and a few others picking it up. Soon as
[4:41] that happened and that started trending
[4:43] and a lot of people started talking
[4:44] about it, within the hour, you had the
[4:47] group on Reset Era ban this individual
[4:50] and you could just see like look at the
[4:51] time frame here, okay? And when you look
[4:53] at my initial post where I talked about
[4:54] this, it was at 1:40. So basically there
[4:57] was about an hour of this news starting
[4:59] to trend and then people came to the
[5:00] forum and started talking about it which
[5:02] effectively got this dude banned. And
[5:04] even though there is technically people
[5:05] fighting back against this which I'll
[5:07] talk about in a second. I would like to
[5:08] remind everybody if you browse through
[5:10] this forum you have just a lot of people
[5:12] molding about stellar blade. And this
[5:15] has been a conversation that's echoing
[5:16] pretty much on the entirety of the
[5:18] internet. You can find it pretty much
[5:19] everywhere. You can find it on Tik Tok,
[5:21] Reddit, YouTube, Twitter. You can find
[5:23] it probably on various different forms
[5:25] like reset era for instance. A lot of
[5:27] people are talking about stellar blade
[5:29] and Eevee's design. And so this isn't
[5:31] just like one area. There's a lot of
[5:33] people that are probably getting the
[5:34] exact same idea, the big idea in their
[5:36] head to do what collective shout did
[5:38] last year. Now we need to get into the
[5:40] push back that is now facing this site
[5:43] or this form, but also the push back
[5:46] from the users of this site. So
[5:48] basically, yes, the account that did
[5:49] this and started this was banned and
[5:51] they were labeled a troll account. Good
[5:53] job on the moderators or whoever to
[5:55] basically do this because this is
[5:57] completely unacceptable and not okay
[5:59] whatsoever. And various comments after
[6:01] this do call this individual out. But I
[6:04] look, I don't want to say it is, but the
[6:07] only reason why I think that this got so
[6:08] much push back so quickly is especially
[6:11] because it started trending and a lot of
[6:12] people started picking up the story. If
[6:14] it wasn't, I feel like this would have
[6:17] gone on unnoticed and potentially there
[6:19] would have been some support on this
[6:21] site about it because I would like to
[6:23] remind everybody kind of what happened
[6:25] here. Basically, Collective Shout, they
[6:27] they reported everything pretty much to
[6:30] payment processors to get uh Steam and
[6:32] itch in hot water. And um if you
[6:35] remember, they got away with it because
[6:37] not a lot of people were able to catch
[6:39] it early. They they they definitely got
[6:41] away with it because of that. And they
[6:42] did have a lot of connections to that
[6:44] people in the higher-ups in that
[6:45] activist group had connections with
[6:46] government entities and stuff like that
[6:48] to get the the ball moving. But the
[6:50] point is is that all it takes is one
[6:52] activist group to get really pissed off
[6:53] that has some pretty good weight or
[6:56] connections with government entities or
[6:58] big businesses to be able to do exactly
[7:00] what Collective Shout did last year with
[7:02] Stellar Blade. And with how blatant the
[7:04] racism is towards basically Asian
[7:06] culture and Asian games and media, I
[7:09] honestly wouldn't be surprised if it
[7:11] does happen to some shape or form to
[7:13] force Shift Up and Stellar Blade to be
[7:16] censored to some degree. Now, like I
[7:18] said, I am proud that this form called
[7:20] this out, but soon as they called it
[7:22] out, the form basically officially died.
[7:24] And from my knowledge, this isn't a
[7:26] locked post. So it is very strange just
[7:28] how quickly it died especially when
[7:30] there was a lot of active conversation
[7:32] on this form for honestly ongoing for a
[7:34] while for days at a time. So I am very
[7:38] interested on uh why suddenly the form
[7:41] has went kind of a little bit silent
[7:42] here after this call out. But with that
[7:45] I I just this is absolutely crazy. Like
[7:47] I can't believe we're now back at the
[7:49] situation like somehow collective shout
[7:51] has returned in a different form under a
[7:54] different name. Now, obviously, this
[7:56] situation isn't as bad, but this is very
[8:00] telling because everybody knows this
[8:02] that it works. For instance, activist
[8:05] groups being able to get a, you know, a
[8:06] platform to buckle and bend works.
[8:09] Collective shout is proof of that. You
[8:11] can hate them or whatever, and I despise
[8:13] what they did, but they were very
[8:15] effective with what they did. They did
[8:17] manage to get to this very day multiple
[8:19] platforms censored. So, it could happen
[8:22] again. And so I'm glad to see some just
[8:24] straight up massive toxic backlash to
[8:28] this entire situation and people are not
[8:31] having it whatsoever. Now there is
[8:34] another little thing I do want to add
[8:35] into this. There also is calls for
[8:38] basically a petition to remove Stellar
[8:40] Blade to remove the youthful characters
[8:42] within Stellar Blade which Packer Girl
[8:44] here basically outlines there is an
[8:46] ongoing petition about this that is
[8:48] getting votes to basically force Stellar
[8:50] Blade to be censored. Obviously, I don't
[8:52] think this is going to go anywhere, but
[8:54] once again, it goes to show just how
[8:55] many people are molding about this
[8:57] situation and that they just cannot
[8:59] stand Asian Games and beautiful looking
[9:01] characters within stories. So, yeah,
[9:03] tell me your thoughts honestly how you
[9:05] feel about this situation. How do you
[9:06] feel about uh this whole mess that is
[9:09] kind of building and bubbling right now?
[9:10] Like I said, I'm very happy about the
[9:12] toxicity. That is why I went right out
[9:14] the gate to make this as toxic as
[9:16] possible with the title just to get
[9:18] people riled up to really make sure that
[9:20] this does not happen. I want people to
[9:23] outright just be completely 100% against
[9:26] this type of censorship because it is
[9:29] unacceptable. These payment processors,
[9:31] Visa and Mastercard, they should not be
[9:33] able to get in front of you making
[9:35] illegal purchase whatsoever. But
[9:37] obviously, they've shown time and time
[9:38] again they will all in the name of brand
[9:40] protection. So, I'm just Yes, that's why
[9:43] this conversation needs to be extremely
[9:45] toxic and needs to be basically
[9:47] completely shut down right soon as it
[9:49] starts and make it to where anyone that
[9:51] dares to try to contact payment
[9:53] processors to do something as evil or re
[9:55] irredeemable as this just gets
[9:57] completely shut down. So, yes, I am so
[9:59] glad people are calling this out and
[10:01] once again, I'm proud of whoever kind of
[10:03] shut this down in the form. But, I
[10:06] wonder what would have happened if this
[10:08] news didn't break. That is the big
[10:10] question I have about this situation.
[10:12] But uh thank you so much for watching.
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[10:17] bit. Be safe, stay healthy. Chibi out.