- Joined
- May 30, 2019
If this isn't the perfect illustration of why people hate SJWs, I don't know what is.Buckle up because this shitstorm's been brewing for some time. Gonna spoil this shit so people can skip this post without having to scroll much.
It all started when Kiwi Farms thread-haver Ana Valens spotted the now infamous MIX IT UP drink ad in one of the trailers released by CD Projekt Red and whined about it on Twitter. The complaint was that the ad dehumanized trans bodies by using them as tools to sell a product, ignoring that dehumanization of people by companies is a central theme in Cyberpunk. This caused a very small amount of controversy. Nothing big, but it was just a sign of things to come.
Some time after, the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account made the mistake of tweeting the "I identify as an attack helicopter" joke which caused a small amount of controversy again, because as we all know that joke was created specifically to make fun of trans people and not the hundred thousand genders from Tumblr.
Things got worse when it was found out that your sex in the game was linked to the voice you pick, regardless of how your character looks. This caused these people to complain even more, because linking sex to how your voice sounds is transphobic. Then Cyberpunk had a cosplay contest and one of the finalists was a *gasp* CIS WOMAN cosplaying as the woman with a dick in the MIX IT UP ad, which is transmisogynistic because reasons. Then it was discovered CDPR made it's employees go through crunch, which TransEra couldn't give a shit about (their beloved The Last of Us 2 did it as well and they don't care) but it's a useful point for them to attack CDPR with.
All of these caused TransEra to want to cancel the game, but the ResetEra staff was not having it because preventing A VIDEO GAME FORUM from talking about the most hyped release of the year was a sure way to lose revenue. So TransEra did the closest possible thing they could: Kyuuji created a thread to tell everyone how transphobic and full of shitlords CDPR are and they kept constantly going to Black Chamber's Cyberpunk 2077 thread for the game to make it go off topic by complaining people wanted to actually talk about the game instead of transphobia. This continued to foment for a while.
Black Chamber was the creator the Cyberpunk 2077 thread and was his responsibility to create the OP for the game when it eventually launched. This caused TransEra to become incensed because his thread was way more popular than Kyuuji's, and it didn't have any warnings about how much of a bad person people were for wanting to play the game. They would constantly go to his thread and try to drive it off-topic, but people who wanted to talk about the game eventually wised up and ignored those posts which caused them to get assblasted like never before.
Kyuuji then one day "innocently" asked Black Chamber if he was going to include warnings about CDPR's horrible, terrible transphobia on the OP of his thread, warnings written by TransEra members of course. Black Chamber answered that EVERYONE was welcome in the Cyberpunk thread. This caused TransEra to erupt in a blaze of fury, because he did not immediately bow to their demands and add their disclaimers on his thread. Unbeknownst to them, Black Chamber was planning to add something of the sort to the thread, it just was not ready yet and he wanted to surprise everyone. But alas it was too late and TransEra was already clamoring for his head for ignoring their community. Kyuuji used an alt account and leaked part of a PM between them and Black Chamber, where it was revealed Kyuuji outright stated their objective of shitting up every Cyberpunk thread possible if people were just gonna ignore their thread.
The result was Black Chamber agreed to get banned for 30 days from ResetEra and gave the responsibility of creating the Cyberpunk 2077 OP to the mods, specifically Android Sophia, a transwoman herself. But TransEra was still furious that Black Chamber got to choose his own punishment and went digging on his past, and they found a tweet where Black Chamber joked about tipping his MAGA hat at someone. His 30 day ban became permanent after that was posted on the site and Black Chamber became a pariah on ResetEra, with n-word enthusiast B-Dubbz asking everyone to message the mods if they suspected any other member were Trump supporters. All was well in the world, except...
After being booted from Era, Black Chamber got a warm reception on NeoGAF where he revealed Kyuuji had been aggressively bothering him for months on end about the Cyberpunk threads. He also revealed PMs he had with ResetEra mods, where Android Sophia agreed Kyuuji was wrong but couldn't do anything about it. And how, once the MAGA tweet came to light the mods completely cut contact with him without allowing him to explain himself. The truth being, the MAGA tweet was a joke and Black Chamber had never voted in his entire life.
Meanwhile on ResetEra, Kyuuji's "CDPR Transphobia" thread got pinned, Cyberpunk was allowed one thread created by Android Sophia with huge transphobia disclaimers on the top of every page so that people would not be able to miss them, and the only thread where Cyberpunk reviews were allowed to be posted was one specifically focusing on reviews that mentioned transphobia, and the official Cyberpunk thread was locked for one entire day when the game got released for Trans Remembrance Day. But TransEra was pissed and wanted more, because from their point of view the ResetEra staff hadn't done nearly enough.
Android Sophia and three other trans members of the ResetEra staff went to Discord to talk with TransEra, with predictable poor results. This resulted in Android Sophia resigning, and more and more complaints against the staff for "not caring about the trans community" on the forum. One of those complaints was from an user who got banned, and the ban message being "Does not want to be here.". That only fanned the flames even more, and one user by the name of A.By, who had been present on the Discord talk before, to message mod Poodlestrike about it. Poodlestrike (who was still angry about how the other mods were treated on Discord but didn't participate in the talks himself) told A.By that the mods were going to talk with the banner user, not anyone else, and said A.By to go pound sand.
For those who have English Second Language and don't know, "Go pound sand" is just an informal way to tell someone off. It literally just means "go away" and "stop bothering me". And boy howdy, TransEra did not take to someone from their group being told NO lightly. Someone from TransEra had been told NO by a moderator, which means the whole staff is transphobic and the website isn't safe for the trans community. Cue the implosion happening in real time.
And that, boys and girls, is how we ended up where we are now. With ResetEra burning while the entire inernet points and laughs at it while enjoying the popcorn harvest.
TL;DR
TransEra finds reasons to hate Cyberpunk and will never let go.
TransEra gets assblasted people want to talk about the game and can ignore their constant transphobia whining.
TransEra gets the Cyberpunk thread's OP banned for not sucking their girldicks the very second they ordered to.
After getting all they asked for TransEra still wants more, one moderator finally has enough and tells one of them to go pound sand.
TransEra goes batshit crazy and is setting the website ablaze. Beatings will continue until the mods break down.
They just want to
