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hello, i am a loser who lurks /tg/ and /vg/
on one hand, i can confirm the "ACK" meme is transphobic, it's the obsessed-with-trans-people side of /v/ getting mad at new video games and using it to spray that meme
that said, and this is a 4chan tactic, it's written in a way that makes it look normal; the only thing i can say is that from the gameplay trailers i am going through, i cannot find the "pack" being cut off
hail, holy queen of the sea, you're whirling-in-rags, you're vast and you're sad
Looking at the YMMV page, I see that people were complaining about the game being "woke" and "pandering" for having a trans character as well.
+1 vote to removing the entry: we don't need "jokes" about trans people committing suicide on this wiki.
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ah, of course. so that was why /v/ had a chip on its shoulder about it. yeah remove
hail, holy queen of the sea, you're whirling-in-rags, you're vast and you're sad
From a rule standpoint, we don't technically care if the memes are gross and bigoted; we don't whitewash audience reactions.
That said I don't really personally care and it's currently lying about what the meme actually is. If it keeps we'd need to be honest about it.
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Plus, the “joke” is more associated with woke gaming and 4chan than anything specific to the game Hyenas.
Discombobulate.
I went ahead and removed it
What should we do about the person who added the entry? (KBZheng123) It does seem like a covert (well, by internet right-wing definitions of "covert") troll entry. Are their other edits to the website constructive?
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Moderators are currently discussing the matter of the troper.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
So i was reading the YMMV page for the cancelled Video Game/Hyenas, and i came across the following example of memetic mutation:
The part "common exclamation for sudden dismay or frustration—making it seem like the writer of the slogan got into some unfortunate incident and couldn't finish writing it. " really bugged me, this whole sentence felt really weird. That feels terribly specific and it's overall just a clunky piece of writing.
So i decided to investigate on google for "hyenas "join the ack" " and my suspicious were validated, all of the results containing the phrase where from Kiwi Farms and 4chan, with true context of this "Ack" that the troper pretends it's a "common exclamation for sudden dismay or frustration—making" was actually a mockery of the suicide of transgender individuals, one other example of "join the ack" that i found was an steam user making a community post with this as the title and going full transphobe.
Now, the point i'm trying to make is that based on my research, there is absolutely no way KB Zheng 123 didn't know what the context of that was about, which means they intentionally and knowingly added a transphobic joke to the site and tried to pass off as a regular joke, and that requires action by the moderators, as there should be zero tolerance for transphobia and transphobic users in this site.