note : self may not able keep post up to date , may not have energy or brain power . is will try make all links here others tumblr posts so others can share / reblog .
if there more post that credible and want share , feel free tell and can add it
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many koreans have said that Majority of oversea fans may not even know this is happening , that why important to spread and share especially if there no announcement by PM anytime soon
support the protest and remind higher ups the message of their games . this not about tearing down , it about calling for improvement .
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for self in solidarity , will not draw limbus unless its more things like did above , to draw attention to situation [literal]
again , self is oversea fan not korean . if anything need fix , let us know . hope can be of help 🫡 !
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Page 1: Fight for a better company!
An unjust “solution” thou made
Support the protest/boycott of Limbus Company! (This was written by an overseas fan.)
Page 2: What happened? ! Very oversimplified !
A beach event started
Bad incel men from the gacha crowd were mad at the design of Ishmael and Sinclair (Ishmael not in bikini, Sinclair has choker) (On the side of this, two characters from Limbus, Ishmael and Sinclair, are drawn. Ishmael is saying “We’re too hot for them”)
They review bombed the game (having low enough rating can get game removed) and fans made effort to fix.
Then, the incel men protested at projmoon, making verbal threats towards artist and company (On the side of this, Cinq Director Don Quixote is drawn, saying “Then…Injustice”)
The designer of Sinclair and Ishmael IDs is male, therefore incels retargeted to female CG artist
The CEO Kim Jihoon fired Vellmori who did nothing wrong less than 24 hours later.
The CEO and rest higher ups are known not to be good towards team (Team was about 30 people who work in restaurant)
Now fans are mad and currently Korean fans are also doing protest and calling support for fired artist.
Page 3: ! This is not cancelling Projmoon or LCB.
We love the game so we should fight for a better future
What can we do?
Listen to mainland Koreans first and foremost
Support Vellmori
Donate to protest efforts
Spread the word (and don’t be assholes to each other!)
Don’t log into game until there’s change
(On the side, three phrases are written: Silence is not solution. Termination not solution. We are powerful!)
There’s only so much overseas fans can do, but things can still be fixed and done. We are big audience for game too
The main focus is fighting for better treatment of employees
Page 4: Despite small company size, employees are paid well
It’s mostly poor treatment from higher ups that poisons (kind of ironic)
A game cannot live breathe without fans and fair treatment of employees!
Show that we ARE more valuable than shit incel misogynistic whales
Show that we will support Projmoon MORE than incel money and hate can ever give, so long as they protect their workers, treat better, and not cater to shitty men.
DON’T LET HIGHER UPS GET AWAY WITH POOR TREATMENT! Don’t give into incels, don’t let Projmoon give into incels!
Make Projmoon listen to us loud and clear
We are more powerful than you think
Page 5: Your voice is important, both mainland Korean and overseas fans
Protest demands is to withdraw termination of Vellmori and for refunds
Spread the word, let there be outcry! Overseas fans need know
Don’t support game until Projmoon gets shit together
the korean fandom on twitter is, understandably, going scorched earth on project moon due to this. there’s a lot currently going on to protest the decision, so i’m posting a list here of what’s going on for those who want to limit their time on elon musk’s $44 billion midlife crisis impulse purchase website (if you are on twitter, domuk is a good person to follow, as they translate important updates to english). a lot of the links are in korean, but generally it plays nicely with machine translators. this should be current as of 8/2.
A press conference at the Gyeonggido Assembly will occur on 8/3, with lawmakers of the Gyeonggi province (where Project Moon is based) in attendance. This appears driven by the leader of the Gyeonggi Youth Union.
The vice chairman of the IT union–who has a good amount of experience with labor negotiations like these–has expressed strong support for the artist and is working to get media coverage due to the ongoing feminist witch hunts in the gaming industry. Project Moon isn’t union to my knowledge, but he’s noted that he’s taken on companies such as Netmarble (largest mobile game dev in South Korea) by getting the issue in front of the National Assembly (Korea’s congress).
A full boycott of the Limbus Company app, on both mobile and PC (steam) platforms. Overseas fans are highly encouraged to participate, regardless if whether they’re F2P or not. Not opening the app at all is arguably the biggest thing any one person can do to protest the decision, as the app logs the number of accounts that log on daily. For a new gacha such as Limbus, a high number of F2P daily active users, but a small number of paying users is often preferable to having a smaller userbase but more paying users. If the company sees the number of daily users remain stable, they will likely decide to wait out any backlash rather than apologize.
Due to the firing, the Leviathan artist has posted about poor working conditions when making the story. As per a bilingual speaker, they were working on a storyboard revision, and thought ‘if I ran into the street right now and got hit by a car and died, I wouldn’t have to keep working.’ They contacted Project Moon because they didn’t want their work to be like that, and proposed changes to serialization/reduction in amount of work per picture/to build up a buffer of finished images (they did not have any buffer while working on Leviathan to my knowledge). They were shut out, and had to suck it up and accept the situation.
Hamhampangpang has a 'shrine’ section of the restaurant for fans to leave fan-created merch and other items. They also allow the fans to take this merch back if they can prove it’s theirs. Fans are now doing just that.
To boost all of the above, a large number of Korean fanartists with thousands of followers have deleted their works and/or converted their accounts from fanart accounts to accounts supporting the protests. Many of them are bilingual, and they’re where I got the majority of this information.
[note 1: there’s a targeted english-language disinformation campaign by the website that started the hate mob. i have read the artist’s tweets with machine translation, and they’re talked about in the second hankyoreh article linked above: nowhere does she express any transphobic or similarly awful beliefs. likewise, be wary of any claims that she supported anything whose description makes you raise eyebrows–those claims are likely in reference to megalia, a korean feminist movement. for information on that, i’d recommend the NPR/BBC articles below and this google drive link of english-language scholarly papers on them. for the love of god don’t get your information about a feminist movement from guys going on feminism witch hunts.]
[note 2: i’ve seen a couple people argue that the firing was for the physical safety of the employees, citing the kyoani incident in japan. as per this korean fan, most fans there strongly do not believe this was the case. we have english-translated transcripts of the meeting between the mob and project moon; the threats the mob was making were to……brand project moon as a feminist company online. yes, really. male korean gamers aren’t normal about feminism, and there’s been an ongoing witch hunt for feminists in the industry since about 2016, something you see noted in both the labor union statements. both NPR and the BBC this phenomenon to gamergate, and i’d say it’s a pretty apt comparison.]
let me know if anything needs correction or if anything should be added.
I promise. Doing it scared will you give you the best results in the end. I’m learning to step more out of my comfort zone this year, and so far I’m proud of myself.
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