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Hello everyone!!
Thank you for all of the birthday wishes yesterday! I had a wonderful (and very eventful) night. The food was delicious, the drinks were strong, and the company was unmatched. Starting year 23 off strong.
Over the course of the next week, I'll be moving out of my apartment, so I will likely still be restricted to one post per day. I'm going to try to write two, but you can still count on getting any important information.
A little reminder: as we get closer to the end of the month, misinformation will be circulating. Don't believe everything you see. If there is no trustworthy source, take it with a grain of salt.
The People's Procuratorate of Gaoping District posted a Weibo message with Valko's trending hashtag, citing Article 75 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors
Translation:
Gaoping District Procuratorate
#Love and Deep Space Ao Yin #Legal Perspective to Protect the Growth of Minors #[Daily Legal Learning: Online Game Management Requires Real-Name Authentication and Strictly Limits Minors' Game Time]
Article 75 of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors": Online games may only be operated after being approved in accordance with the law.
The state will establish a unified electronic identity authentication system for minors playing online games. Online game service providers must require minors to register and log in to online games using their real identity information.
Online game service providers shall classify game products, provide age-appropriate warnings, and take technical measures to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate games or game functions in accordance with relevant national regulations and standards.
Online game service providers are prohibited from providing online game services to minors between 10 PM and 8 AM the following day. (Source: Legal Daily Editorial Department)
#LegalDaily#CCTV Today'sLegalDaily's Weibo video
Several polls regarding Valko and his release have begun to appear on Weibo. I've seen a few here and there on Weibo and RedNote since the beginning of the protest, but many more have been posted over the past couple of days.
SPECULATION: I don't think the polls have much influence when it comes to Infold's decision-making. However, getting demographic data from the polls is important. According to the post below, the vast majority of antis voting on these polls are minors. Given how the Chinese government has begun to crack down on minors in digital spaces, the demographic data could very well be used as evidence.
I mentioned in my report yesterday that many CN players are coming across a facial recognition pop-up when they log into the game. I want to clarify a few things regarding this.
Facial recognition would only be implemented in China. Everything is connected to their ID numbers, so facial recognition cross-references the photo on their ID to the face it’s scanning to ensure it’s the same person. Essentially, if a minor used their parent’s ID number to access age restricted content, facial recognition would be able to identify it and prohibit them from entering the game. It is not based on how old you look—it uses information stored by the government to confirm identity.
According to Infold's customer service, Rafayel's fourth myth has been delayed until August.
"Customer service message says:
Here is the latest information we obtained for you: Due to significant adjustments to the schedule for the upcoming versions, and to ensure the stability and user experience of future content after release, the development team is working at full speed on the necessary preparations. After careful evaluation, Rafayel’s brand-new Solar card/companion identity is expected to be released in August. Please wait a little longer. Thank you for your understanding and support!”
We are officially bannerless.
If you are still logging into the game, I encourage you to participate in Valko Wednesdays. For one day a week, consider not logging in at all. This is an organized and effective strategy for getting our point across.
Over 4,000 letters have been submitted using the website made by CN players. Here is the link if you would like to submit your own.
来自53个国家和地区的160份心意，在铃兰与绿意之间相遇。World letters for Valko, with love.
Here is a very interesting post about Valko's supertopic on Weibo.
Translation:
The entire yesterday, and even today at 5 a.m., Valko is in the super topic on Weibo.
Let me explain: for a topic to stay trending for so long, it must:
A) be discussed extensively and for a very long time
B) be paid for/bought [A/N: this is VERY expensive]
A couple of days ago, searching for "Ao Yin" on Weibo brought up negative posts. But today, when you click on the topic title, only positive posts show up. These posts aren't made by entirely ordinary users, or as Chinese girls say, "they don't look like our people."
Buying the FIRST spot in a topic is very expensive. None of the Chinese users organized a purchase. Chinese users themselves are in a state of "???" because this whole positive turnaround toward Valko happened suddenly and very sharply.
What conclusion begs to be drawn? (: Most likely, Infold themselves paid for that spot and the bots that made those posts.
Is that good? Of course it's good, because the antis used the same tactic with bots to tarnish the character's name.
Now let's connect the myth transfer of Raphael + the company's refusal to delete/destroy any information about Valko in any way (since that's the only logical option if they've 100% decided to remove him, and don't want to return even to mentioning his name) + Valko previews on the global version, which still haven't been deleted (they could do that later, but still) + positive articles on various state sites. It feels like the company is leaving little seeds in different spots, which will later bear fruit all at once. I don't want to claim that they're 100% bringing him back, because I myself can't bring myself to believe or hope in something extra like that, but the logical threads are starting to intertwine.
My Thoughts
This is a pretty information-heavy report, but I'm as optimistic as ever! Let me break down a few points that I think are working in our favor.
The government and state media have cleared Infold and Valko, and they continue to post in support of clearing misinformation, maintaining artistic integrity, and pursuing economic success.
The government and Infold are implementing more intense restrictions on minors, which make up a large portion of the anti-Valko group.
Revenue and downloads continue to drop.
Rafayel's fourth myth has been postponed. Recall that the cancellation announcement specifically said that it would be announced in July. They've broken a promise. In my mind, that makes the entire thing null and void.
My reasoning, as someone who worked in a legal office: if you have a contract, you're expecting to adhere to each and every clause in it. If you don't, you can be sued for breach of contract, no matter how insignificant the breach may seem. You render the entire thing null and void simply by not adhering to every term.
Infold is still silent, there are no active events or banners, and we know they are pursuing legal action. To me, this seems like they are trying to clear a path forward.
Several media outlets—both Chinese and otherwise—have acknowledged the global outcry. Infold cannot ignore it. If they do, they'll be actively going against the government's advice to listen to the global market, and that would be an astonishingly stupid thing to do.
Logically speaking, the best thing they can do at this point is release Valko. Now, yes, I'm always high on hopium, but this seems like the best way forward in my opinion:
Release a statement as soon as possible. Give the players an explanation, an apology, and a roadmap.
Reinstate Valko at the beginning of August. Let the revenue speak for itself.
Release Raf's fourth myth directly afterwards. This will give Infold time to release the PVs and to hype up the event.
Would this be rough on players and our wallets? Yes, absolutely. But, it's also the best way to recover their revenue, stay on schedule, and regain player support.
Remember that July 29th is our next checkpoint, but it's not the finish line. As we get closer to the end of the month, it's extremely important that we maintain our momentum. Keep posting, emailing, and pushing the petitions. We will get our wolf back!
⚠️Disclaimer : I won't name this person, even if apparently she is very well known among some extremes Rafayel mains, because I don’t want to give her more light or bring cyberbullying, it’s not how we work here.
So it seems that there were several evidences of her takes on Weibo, seemed that she was behind a very well orchestrated diffamation campaign towards LADS and Infold...
For now, it’s only rumors so be careful.
Again, I'm going to put some rules here :
-don't contact this person
-don’t cyberbully this person
-don’t create hate towards Rafayel mains because they are absolutely not like that, here we are talking about a very extreme behavior that has nothing to do with all of us.
-PLEASE LET OUR CN HUNTERS HANDLE THIS AFFAIR.
-Just keep fighting for Valko and show love and only love on social media
helpful tattoo reminder: they are technically Injuries so u have to eat a lot of calories drink a lot of water and sleep a lot after so your body can Heal The Injury
another helpful tattoo reminder: the 24-48 hours after you get a tattoo your brain can not be trusted in regards to whether or not you should have gotten that tattoo, if you have somehow ruined your life, if it turned out ugly, etc. ignore that
finally, while i am at it: always bring a candy bar and a sugary drink to your appointment for blood-sugar reasons (worst case scenario) or so you can have a treat (unilaterally applicable)
Can I just emphasize that not everyone reading this has yet encountered the information that injuries require food, hydration, and sleep? I think the way many people associate rest and injury is that you rest the injury itself to avoid making it worse, but overlook that the healing process itself requires rest regardless of if not-rest directly injures it further.
Also exercise is a form of controlled injury so that as your body heals it heals stronger. You also need food-hydration-rest for strength and cardiovascular improvements after exercise.
GUYS. you have to have hope!! i see so many people giving up on getting valko back (understandably, given how defeating it is) after seeing the coming soon button missing. we can'tttt give up, that's what they want us to do. giving up is losing 100% of the time
even if we keep trying, we might still lose, but theres a better chance we can make positive progress. don't let this crush your hopes!!! change never happens when people stand down, we're more powerful together :3 the longer we have hope and make ourselves heard, the more infold will be forced to acknowledge us <3
good news will come! i know it seems sad now, but it will get better. i promise
I'm not going to engage in any other Infold/ love and Deepspace news until something official comes out or they add Valko into the game. It's exhausting to be on this roller-coaster, and I personally can't dedicate all of my energy into making sense of what is true or false.
So either this is goodbye to Love and Deepspace, or a new content Valko edit on my FYP page will draw me back in.
And that's the part that's making me lose my fucking mind.
We lost an entire section of the MAIN STORY.
The livestream literally told us Valko's release was going to reveal more about the Aethercore—one of the biggest mysteries in Love and Deepspace and something that's been central to the plot from the very beginning.
So now what?
You think they can just delete him and nothing changes?
Do people genuinely think you can rip out an entire story arc without consequences?
Everything that was supposed to be revealed through Valko now has to be rewritten, redistributed, or outright cut. The main story is going to have to be retconned. Future updates are going to have to be reworked. Characters may have to be rewritten just to fill the gap he leaves.
If you're celebrating this because you "won," I sincerely hope you understand what you've actually cheered for.
I feel like it would change depending on the stage of their relationship
Sweetheart - this scene gives off fist mission together and they have to pretend they are a couple so using something close sounding fits. Being with an enemy and wearing his ring? Hehe
Pup - in a teasing way, he is a wolf and she is a pup copeared to him, also the fact that mc is pretending/learning to be a wolf by wearing a mask, therefore doesn't have experiance like a wolf pup doesn't
Babe - okay now this feels like a really comfortable place for some reason, deeper into relationship, he seems proud to show off his girl and openly be in love. Like we are enemies but you let her in your hidden tech lab right right...
That being said, I think all of these scenes are really early in their relationship butt later I see him using any of these nicknames. Imagine your rival throwing these in the middle of a fight. Even so I don't think they would actually be at each other's throats like Sylusmc were, even them I felt more so ragebait
tysm for the wait! i hope you like them >< i'll be probs posting these on my twitter (because i keep forgetting it exists ahah....) 1. pls lemme know or dm me if you don't wanna be posted! 2. also these are the icons/square ver to fit the post better but also lmk if you want the header/wide ver ones! ദ്ദി/ᐠ｡‸｡ᐟ\
I want to remind everyone of something very important, it took the negative few a week of vandalism, harassment, death threats, and lies to the media to get government attention to get Valko cancelled.
In 48 short hours we have accomplished so much more. Before I list out accomplishments I want to explain why this is so huge. Across states, countries, continents, and language barriers we have done amazing things. In 48 hours.
We mobilize multiple petitions that have hundreds of thousands of signatures
In 48 hours
We mass unfollowed lads socials, tanking their 1 million milestone on Instagram alone
In 48 hours
Many global fans joined Rednote and XHS to better coordinate with the CN fans and have another place to communicate our frustrations to Infold
In 48 hours
We have mass commented on those same socials
In 48 hours
We have flooded the relevant emails with heartfelt respectful declarations of our hurt and displeasure
In 48 hours
We have taken their google store reviews from 4.0 stars to 1.2 (last I checked)
In 48 hours
We have allied both halves of the fandom, something that never seemed possible
In 48 hours
We have achieved official trailers, art, and music to multiple Google docs ( I saw one person say they were going to back their archive up on a physical thumb drive to ensure he doesn't become lost media)
In 48 hours
We have made websites with links to petitions, necessary email addresses, and templates (shout-out t to the Taiwan fans I've heard more then a couple of them have done this!)
In 48 hours
We have made Valko's theme the 3rd most listened to song on Spotify (as told to me in a comment hours ago)
In 48 hours
We have caught the attention of several news outlets
In 48 hours
We claimed his as ours (one person said it best, he's everyone's werewolf OC now)
Be proud of yourselves! Many of us have done this between work and family responsibilities. In 48 short hours we have made giant waves!
Rest, refuel, and refresh this weekend (to my fellow American players try to keep all your fingers lol). The fight isn't over but I don't want us to forget how very far we've already come.
Ooc - I haven't been active here but I am speaking up now. If you are someone who supports the cancellation of Valko and the hate campaign that came along with it, please block me and move on.
If you think supporting Valko means betraying your main, you're so so wrong. This week they removed Valko, tomorrow because of some loud voices, where's the guarantee that Infold won't retcon things you love about your LI? You don't need to be loud and flashy about your support for change. You can do it quietly. Sign the petition, like the posts and comments about Valko. But don't be a bystander.
This site was created by fans with the goal to keep Valko’s hashtags trending until July 9th. Find your time zone for peaceful online protesting by scrolling down the page.
JULY 9TH IS THE OFFICAL LADS BLACKOUT DATE. DO NOT LOG IN OR INTERACT WITH THE OFFICIAL LADS ACCOUNTS. IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN ACTIVE, CONTINUE TO USE THE HASHTAGS ACROSS SNS.
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#SaveValko
#KeepValkoAlive
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