CookieRun and its community - The sweetest mobile game franchise with the most toxic fanbase

[Tread Miller]

While doing research for another thread, I got reminded of Cookie Run because the guy I was writing about liked one of the cookies.

Spoiler: Reason I was reminded

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-gmod-sfm-splatoon-community.64512/post-20234901

I'm working on a thread regarding everyone who was part of the Lewd House, a NSFW discord server for Splatoon Garry's Mod artists that had minors in it. One of these "artists" was RasmusH47, who has a Pixiv and uploaded an Inkling version of Peach Cookie (along with an NSFW version)

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Link (Account required)/Archive (NSFW)

Anyways, I got distracted and eventually landed upon this article, stating that Devsisters tried to expand into the Indian market:

English Translation/Archive
Original Korean/Archive

The article mentions that Devsisters's current income stream relies on one IP, Cookie Run; I bring this up because while I can't find it, I remember reading an article years ago (I think some time before CR: OB) that mentioned the reliance on Cookie Run as a major weakness for Devsisters.


Devsisters also apparently partnered with KRAFTON, the Korean video game publisher behind PUBG, and worked with them to advertise the game in India:


Sorry Devsisters, I don't think the saars will redeem the cookie:



In fact, ever since the Cookie Run: Ovenbreak 6th Anniversary update, the Devsisters stock price has been steadily declining, to the point that if you were one of the original investors, you would have actually lost money:


And I'm pretty sure the decline can be tied to that update, since the peak of the stock is before the 6th anniversary of Cookie Run: OvenBreak (October 27, 2016)

(previous dip seems to be related to the Season 6 drama)
Devsisters is a public company on the KOSDAQ, so if you want to confirm these screenshots, you can simply search "Devsisters stock" and see what I saw.

I also found some Reddit posts describing this shitshow, along with an article on Namu Wiki (along with a machine-translated version) discussing the update (for a Korean perspective), but I haven't read them to see if they contain anything new / not covered in the OP.
r/gachagaming post/Archive
r/Cookierun post/Archive
Translated Namu Wiki Article/Archive
Original Namu Wiki Article/Archive

I predict more greedy, short-term-gain type of actions in the rest of the year, but who knows? Anyways, a lesson to learn about why you should not piss off most of your fanbase, especially your veteran/long-time fans.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

This makes me violently ill. Few noted lolcows are in this too.

 

[Your Local Paleofag]

Afraid to announce that one of the Cookies with undefined gender got confirmed as a girl in the newest update video.



Source video (timestamped)

The community sure is gonna take well now knowing that this pastry is a female, right?


Hmm well, doesn't seem that they like it, but the cope now is that they made a typo! Those gooks don't know English after all!

Spoiler: Images in order

Oh wow how curious! After all of these useless examples, the only one that talks about pronouns is here, I'm sure it's indeed a typo and not Devsis forgetting for a second that the character is a gender special in the English translation.

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Source/Archive

Guys guys! It's a typo! Those gooks just don't know how to write! It's a translation mistake the fact that they called her a woman 4 times! The Korean translation calling a pastry "it" is probably more accurate! It's not like they break the English language when trying to avoid using pronouns anyway.

 

[Your Local Paleofag]

Guys guys! It's a typo! Those gooks just don't know how to write! It's a translation mistake the fact that they called her a woman 4 times! The Korean translation calling a pastry "it" is probably more accurate! It's not like they break the English language when trying to avoid using pronouns anyway.

Update, the costume came out and Devsis bent the knee fixed the typo.

 

[#FreeRoss]

I love Cookie Run's wholesome response to that critic of the artist.

 

[woowie queen]

Update, the costume came out and Devsis bent the knee fixed the typo.
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same shit that happened the one time that devsis tried to he/him pitaya dragon in kingdom (when everyone and their mom can figure that he's male).
don't care, snakefruit is a girl.

 

[All Your Bases...]

Well I might as well throw in my two cents, back then the general wiki and the Kingdom wiki were run by two separate teams, however the general wiki was doing the bare minimum and plentiful of things can be updated. So one day, the more active kingdom moderators took control. When the kingdom moderators took control, they mostly did what you would expect. However this addition shows what their priorities lie.

Keep in mind, this is above improving the wiki's reputation, and you can read it for yourself here: https://cookierun.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000093370

 

[Your Local Paleofag]

Thread was moved to community watch! Hopefully the Cookie Run community will continue providing dumb controversy after dumb controversy.

 

[relobotomized]

providing dumb controversy after dumb controversy.

there's one right now, after they revamped the candy blessing system. and it's a resource sink with minuscule chances of getting what precisely what you want. don't forget that the game has 200 cookies in the game so imagine how many blessings you need to do.

Spoiler: screenshots

even the top veteran memed about parking a truck for this update, he also has other grievances but when he posted them on youtube its cropped

5 fucking dollars nigga ??! the minimum is 12-25 blessings just to get lucky and have something that scores well

community manger spoke, and added an event as a band-aid

Spoiler: response

between the event updates being formulaic and this, the feedback is pretty negative

 

[woowie queen]

even the top veteran memed about parking a truck for this update, he also has other grievances but when he posted them on youtube its cropped

if even boxygen complains, you know that devsis fucked hard this round with ovenbreak.
(also, this update cookies are the first time in forever that made me yawn a little. the past korean-based cookies were alright, but korean almond and ugly pissbaby (?) are definitely not something i'm liking (especially the pissbaby. one in ovenbreak was enough (and i like pond dino).)

 

[Mary Lee Harvey osWalsh]

Ah, Cookie Run.... I played Kingdom for maybe a year and a half, but finally couldn't take it anymore. It took up way too much of my time each day and I would dread when there would be new story content because it would end up taking way too long and the app would constantly crash. I stopped playing I think mid-2023? Don't remember the exact date.

Anyway, I had some interesting interactions with the fandom.

Spoiler: Story time

First of all, you have Pure Vanilla Cookie. He's basically the "leader" of the cookies (or at least he was when I played) and his imagery is very obviously based on Jesus.



But of course, having the Jesus cookie be named "Pure Vanilla" is super problematic you guys!!!!! Because it's saying that the literal savior of Cookiekind is pure white! I had an extended argument with an internet acquaintance over this. I told them it was pretty ridiculous because to me it was obvious that he was "Pure Vanilla" because vanilla is a base flavoring used in pretty much every sweet baked good ever. It had nothing to do with vanilla being "white." They said, "Yeah that may be true but maybe they should have thought about the implications of naming the Jesus cookie 'Pure Vanilla'"

Another time, I remember seeing another former friend talk about White Lily Cookie and how annoyed they were that people kept drawing her humanization as a white person.



Uh....? I'm not seeing the problem here?

And finally, I remember someone going on about how Korea and Asia in general actually was super gender diverse with so many genders beyond the binary, but the evil Westerners colonized it and ruined it and made their genders binary. And oh my god how good it is that a Korean company is promoting gender diversity by having they/thems and gender-nonconforming cookies!!!!

 

[DenseDeerFather]

And finally, I remember someone going on about how Korea and Asia in general actually was super gender diverse with so many genders beyond the binary, but the evil Westerners colonized it and ruined it and made their genders binary. And oh my god how good it is that a Korean company is promoting gender diversity by having they/thems and gender-nonconforming cookies!!!!

Makes me think of how people claimed that the CEO of Mihoyo from China (Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero) is totes queer and cares very much about making his games a game for Western queers so all characters are therefore queers and you're Trump if you say otherwise.

Truth is that they are not and don't give a shit about what Westerners say.

As opposed to Devisisters who bent the knee so hard, it broke and they can't stand up anymore. It's embarrassing.

Not to glaze MHY. They are shit in their own way.

Rip fellow Almond Cookie fags.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

In a lot of asian cultures as long as the thing you're fucking looks girly it's not considered gay at all

that doesn't sound super queer positive to me

 

[Tread Miller]

I remember someone going on about how Korea and Asia in general actually was super gender diverse with so many genders beyond the binary, but the evil Westerners colonized it and ruined it and made their genders binary.

It's obvious this person you were speaking to is coping, but it reminds me of something: One of the words for wife, 아내, is pronounced very similar to the word for inside, 안에, and it's easy to see both where it came from and how wives were seen in Korea's past.

that doesn't sound super queer positive to me

I had a Korean friend tell me that his dad once told him that in Korea, if two guys with a large age difference hold hands, it's fine because it looks like family, but if two similarly-aged guys hold hands, people will look at them strangely.

 

[Your Local Paleofag]

there's one right now, after they revamped the candy blessing system. and it's a resource sink with minuscule chances of getting what precisely what you want. don't forget that the game has 200 cookies in the game so imagine how many blessings you need to do.

It seems like Devsis finally responded to the complains about it.








Original Korean article/Archive
Translation source/Archive

 

[Jerkass Ingoff Y2K2.0]

I fucking these dipshits. ( L | A )

Spoiler: HATE.

LIKE LITERALLY WHO IN THE FUCK IS THIS AND WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. ( L | A )

Spoiler: LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE.

 

[Big Fish]

I fucking these dipshits. ( L | A )

Spoiler: HATE.

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LIKE LITERALLY WHO IN THE FUCK IS THIS AND WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. ( L | A )

Spoiler: LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE.

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Apparently male crossdressers/drag queens that stay male IRL despite their stage persona don't exist.

 

[All Your Bases...]

LIKE LITERALLY WHO IN THE FUCK IS THIS AND WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.View attachment 7090463

The crossdressing gag is one of the older ones in the game

(Think this update is released in September 2021)

However as proven by this game’s fandom they cannot simply laugh at the joke:

Spoiler

[/ISPOILER] Yes the Korean company will totally not hear your wishes

 

[All Your Bases...]

Update: the wiki went full headcannon with this:

Yep, this is on the community run English wiki. A full-blown headcannon, he's only referred to female once in the game, and that's cheekily in the princess contest, the rest of the game keeps referring to him as male. And the worst part is that this change is most likely done by the mods themselves:

If I say go ahead and keep referring to Cloud as as a troon in the Final Fantasy wiki because of the one time he crossdressed in Wall Market, I would rightfully get my arse warned or even better banned for that because the info that he's a troon flat out isn't in the game, likewise if I tried to reverse the change on this wiki for bwing a headcannon, I would probably get banned instead for "being transphobic".

No wonder this community is a laughingstock.

 

[Your Local Paleofag]

This fanbase can be quite the looney trooney when it comes to Schwarzwälder, yeah the joke character who is an absolute idiot and crossdresses because masculine men in drag equals funny is definitely the representation you want.

Spoiler: Pics from 3rd tweet

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Update: the wiki went full headcannon with this:View attachment 7092085
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Yep, this is on the community run English wiki. A full-blown headcannon, he's only referred to female once in the game, and that's cheekily in the princess contest, the rest of the game keeps referring to him as male. And the worst part is that this change is most likely done by the mods themselves: View attachment 7092098
If I say go ahead and keep referring to Cloud as as a troon in the Final Fantasy wiki because of the one time he crossdressed in Wall Market, I would rightfully get my arse warned or even better banned for that because the info that he's a troon flat out isn't in the game, likewise if I tried to reverse the change on this wiki for bwing a headcannon, I would probably get banned instead for "being transphobic".

No wonder this community is a laughingstock.

They've updated it