SIGNALIS

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

the animations were posted back in march (i think?).

The one Atelier Credits with being her first is from the 19th of march, 4 days after Liz posted his.

Telonflak

So, funny you mention this, because it made me noticed something.

https://archive.ph/CFu8J#

This is what I believe to be the First post of a Atelier animation on the Reddit. (From March 17th, meaning the March 19th animation isn't actually the first animation she did.)

(Once again showing Ateliers obsession with Violence in Lesbian Relationships, but thats not the point of this.)
TeflonFlak is very clearly one of the people who heavily sexualizes the Relationship in Signalis.
When he isn't just ripping and reuploading Ateliers Animations to the Reddit, he's posting other art.





Archive of His Reddit Overview
(Screenshots taken with New Reddit, but archive doesn't work with New Reddit.)
A Peak at his twitter

Shows that he's a lot more explicit with the fetishization on twitter

Spoiler: Retweets

In fact, Teflon's 3rd post on the subreddit, on January 14th 2023, was ship art. (I don't know if that's the right term)

(That post was crossposted to r/wholesomeyuri, as seen at the start of this little tangent)
He also made a big list of Every Fan Animator

https://archive.ph/Stj10

that's actually a lie, he made 2

https://archive.ph/1qcXn

I didn't even touch on His Linktree, which leads to his Bluesky, Tumblr, and Youtube.
The only content Teflon has posted on Reddit is Signalis related, excluding a single post on the Fire Emblem Sub.

I didn't even go through the comments, of which he has a ton within just the last 10 or so days.

Is this kind of stuff normal for Yuri-Fags or is this guy a especially schizophrenic case?

 

[Tablet County]

Is this kind of stuff normal for Yuri-Fags

My experience with yurifags is somewhat limited to Andrew Dobson and trannies I knew on Discord, but I'd say yes. Though this dude has a very particular fixation. Usually they diversify their portfolio.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I played it on the Switch and just got bored after a while. Gameplay loop is basically:
* Find safe zone.
* Look for everything interactable in an area and go to safe zone every few steps to have the map synced.
* Go to the safe zone and load in the required items for an area since there's a harsh item limit.
* Advance a little and then find out you are missing an item, return to safe zone and try another branch.

See a pattern? Unless you already played it, you just become jaded to areas since you see them over and over since the gameplay necessitates backtracking.

 

[LucasSomething]

Is this kind of stuff normal for Yuri-Fags or is this guy a especially schizophrenic case?

Oh i'm well aware of how spergy this user is, even when i didnt visit the sub i was following the sub so the fanarts they shared every days (sometimes multiple per day) would fill my frontpage. If you follow the subreddit stats they're the top 3 user with most posts/comments in the entire subreddit.

I'd argue "normal" male yurifags are surprisingly rare and few actually powerlevel outside of shipper drama but the ones that DO make their entire personality around lesbians and/or are trans lesbians. Signalis shippers are She-ra and Korra shipper levels of being having no personality beyond being yurifags tho.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

Lots of kiwisperging itt. I thought this game was great. Definitely recommended if you're a fan of early 3D survival horror gameplay, even just for what it does aesthetically (not because it's authentic to that, it's just pretty tight).

I don't think there's even actually any lesbian content. Major spoilers, don't read if you're considering playing: girl and her government-issued android (who has a sanitised brain template from a human soldier) grow close and die together on a long, suicidal interstellar mission. Except the girl went into a cryopod instead of actually dying, and she's also a latent psyker and acts as a beacon for other androids with the same brainprint--who are normally psychologically stabilised by this kind of psychic control by design--to go rampant and find her in order to fulfill the promise of putting her out of her misery. Possibly coinciding with a large-scale apocalyptic bubblegum crisis. There's a bit of a relationship fakeout with state-suppressed trauma involving 'her' dead war buddies mixed in, but if anyone was rubbing flaps I missed it.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

I have added the final part of the OP covering 2 Notable though less popular Twitter users in the Fanbase and also a section about the Devs Response to the Milposter Drama and the Fanbase itself. I also expanded the Preamble about the Milposter drama itself so the thread can be more self contained. The Formatting is rough and I imagine I will make another edit to improve readability of the OP. Sorry in advance if its a word salad, I will fix it if that's the case

I don't think there's even actually any lesbian content.

Personally I think its fair to call the Relationship Lesbian, both of the Devs are some form of Gay and Elester is always portrayed as a Female even before being a Replika. I take issue when people start saying that Falke, the Eule and STAR in the mines, and all Replika's are gay. Elester and Ariane seem to be destined by fate to be together, though each time they are it always ends in tragedy. While you can't outright say any of the others are doing anything out of romantic interest, especially since most of the Station is being mind-raped by Ariane during the course of the game.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

Personally I think its fair to call the Relationship Lesbian

I don't think it's an unfair interpretation, and I wouldn't be surprised if they're officially a couple. That's just not really something that's even alluded to in the game besides one scene of them falling asleep with their filthy, filthy shoulders touching. It's clear they had a strong bond, but they also spent like a decade together with no other company.
The androids are devoted attendants by default, and Ariane never opened the personality degradation protipz envelope and instead let her personality flourish in an environment that turned out to not cause a break--so there's equal reason for her to be devoted either way. It's one case where "they were just good friends" scans equally well.

I don't really care, it's just silly for the thread to inadvertently buy into fandom bullshit for the opposite reason.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

"they were just good friends"

To be totally fair the do seem to kiss in the flashback scene on the Ship
Timestamped link

I don't really care, it's just silly for the thread to inadvertently buy into fandom bullshit for the opposite reason.

Fair enough, Truly the brain rot spreads like a cancer I guess.

 

[Rockzo]

>r/wholesomeyuri,
The reddit side of yuri subculture is infested with trannies, you're diving into a lake with how deep you could go here. I mentioned before that trannies latch onto yuri because it gives them an ideal look at their Chris-Chan "I can become a lesbian to get women because women arn't interested in me as a man" delusion. The result is them projecting their IdPol onto the subgenre.
I made a post about this a few months ago. Basic example is a "yuri artist" saying TRANS RIGHTS in a comment. Top post for searching trans on r/yurimemes is someone complaing how their subreddit is a haven for trans women and how dare the mod breech that. Few more posts from here and different subreddits but the rot goes deep. They call it "Trans yuri" instead of Futa which it really is.

This is just giving context to Signalis. The game gets released, some animations get made, posted to reddit, people pay attention and start playing it and it gains popularity and the community that builds around it.

My experience with yurifags is somewhat limited to Andrew Dobson and trannies I knew on Discord, but I'd say yes. Though this dude has a very particular fixation. Usually they diversify their portfolio.

This is true. People usually find pairings that they like and then follow art made of their pairing and get aggravated if it deviates from their headcanon. It's typical fujoshi shit. The recent Gundam series and Bamco getting into a kerfuffle with suggesting the main character's relationship was "up to interpretation", when the voice actors and animation director said that's not true and were shown with rings in show. Friendship rings became a meme and western side of twitter went rabid over "How dare Bamco erase a gay couple." Just as an example.

I'm tempted to collect autism stickers and make a powerlevel post in the trans thread or community watch somehwhere going over the history of yuri and the general infestation of IdPol into it.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

you're diving into a lake

Worse, a bottomless cesspit.

 

[Tablet County]

It's typical fujoshi shit.

Personaly I think yurifags are worse than fujos, but that's probably just because I've been exposed to the former more than the latter.

On the subject of the game, I think the only objective criticism is that you can be locked out of one of the endings if you take too long to finish the game, which is total bullshit.

 

[the shoebill]

Basic example is a "yuri artist" saying TRANS RIGHTS in a comment.

I forgot about GRS with their self-insert transsexual character in the one-note posts this person makes, but I agree that this entire thing with the Signalis community is part of a larger infestation that has taken root within every Western yuri community. I think you should go ahead and make an autism post about the subject as a whole and the history of it, especially given that yuri really started as a genre created by women for women.

 

[WULULULULU]

Wouldn't the OP be more fit into a SIGNALIS Community Watch thread?

 

[Sigmund Freud]

This game has 6'5" feet tall robot women in it so it's alright in my book, the fanbase is fucking awful though

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

I'm tempted to collect autism stickers and make a powerlevel post in the trans thread or community watch somehwhere going over the history of yuri and the general infestation of IdPol into it.

I would truly be very interested in reading a Effort post or even a whole thread OP purely about the western Yuri community.

you can be locked out of one of the endings if you take too long to finish the game

I do like the fact that how you play the game is the deciding factor of what ending you get instead of what choices you make or if you collect the right items or not, but I can see why that would annoy people.

Wouldn't the OP be more fit into a SIGNALIS Community Watch thread?

Probably, I have some reasons but the biggest thing was that I don't think my writing skills are up to snuff for a proper thread.

 

[Glossy Paper]

>sci fi
>female protag
>many female side characters
>retro style
>lesbians? yuri?
If this was in the 90s-early 2000s it'd attract a cool community, but now all of those elements are tranny magnets. Everything I like overlap 80% with tranny interests like some sort of cruel joke.

 

[Coolio55]

I'm tempted to collect autism stickers and make a powerlevel post in the trans thread or community watch somehwhere going over the history of yuri and the general infestation of IdPol into it.

I'd be interested in a thread but I refute the idea that identity politics "infested" yuri, rather that yuri was naturally intertwined with identity politics and has mostly been used as a tool in suppressing natural male sexuality.

Think about it. For such a niche group - why are lesbians so culturally ingrained?
Sure, there are other exclusive groups like elite military squads and royalty that receive large amounts of attention ...but most of these groups also receive far more scrutiny.

From my armchair perspective: I've always viewed it as a manifestation of male self hatred. A fantasy of something better than them. Perhaps even a vision of a world where they don't exist.
Most yuri fans are male and the catchphrase you hear all the time is "Yuri is the purest form of love".
What does it say about a person that believes "the purest form of love" is one that they physically cannot exist in?
Even if they don't stand by that statement; isn't it disturbing to romanticize and obsess over something that by it's very nature precludes you?

I could talk about feminism, man hatred and their association to lesbianism or about how troonism is deeply rooted in self-hatred but I'd rather focus on the arguments that are easier to demonstrate for now.

 

[X Prime]

"Yuri is the purest form of love" has nothing to do with self hate or whatever from a male, it's just their dick talking. It's not rocket science.

It's no different than how fujoshis pretend that gay couples are romantic or what have you instead of just being degenerate sex toys to each other most of the time.

 

[Site of Origin]

I probably would've agreed with this criticism like a decade ago, but I've since learned that nearly every creative endeavor owes its existence to something else, even the oldies. While their inspirations might seem obscure to modern day people, back in the day it would've been seen as blatant.
It's late where I am so I've sort've lost my thread halfway through typing, but derivation doesn't really upset me unless it's horribly blatant, like all those movies that tried to ape Star Wars after it came out, or the movies that tried to ape Die Hard after it came out, and all the Mother clones nowadays that aren't Middens, Off, or Hylics.

I get what you are saying, but there is like a 10 second span where it rips blatantly from Evangelion, space odyssey, and the GitS movie (spider tank arm tear scene)

It doesn't even make some kind of Meta commentary, it just happens and you're left wondering what the hell?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

What does it say about a person that believes "the purest form of love"

It means he thinks that if a woman lets someone before him stick his dick inside her then that woman is a vile whore, and only a virgin is capable of true love (of course he won't put himself on the same standard). That's really where is starts and ends.

Yuri is accepted because our cavemen minds see lesbianism as a phase, so its fans get to have their virgin coomer bait and fantasize about them having sex. Literally have your cake and eat it.