Some thoughts about EN Caleb drama in fandom (from a non-EN player):
I think, ultimately, the fault is on the company.
They are the one who basically have failed to put “dead dove” tag on their contents properly in the first place.
As a non-EN player, I could have avoided his contents from day one “easily”, if I had not been comfortable with it. Why? Because they have always made it crystal clear to their players that MC and Caleb are/were family. Not only that, It was very obvious to me that they were even “selling” this forbidden romance from the way they advertised him in non-EN official stuffs. Like, how often do they want us to remember they are “big brother/little sister/family”? YES. They honestly never shut up about how very much family they are, well, in every universe (even in that little cute cat form, he was simply called “big-brother-cat“ in non-EN) lol.
However, from my understanding, EN players couldn’t experience this proper (kinda almost funny) selling-warning process, could they?
It was not exactly EN-only player’s fault that they have decided to like Caleb believing he had got nothing to do with their big “no-no” stuff, attached to him as a best friend-lover, spent your precious money, later accidentally been exposed to the original element via someone’s random post and gotten upset about it. I would probably upset if I were them tbh. Like, why couldn’t the company just tell us? It’s kinda deceiving? I surely wouldn’t want to find it out especially through someone’s condescending post about how ignorant EN players are. No, It was not EN players fault that they haven’t known.
The whole drama was created by the company’s carelessness. They should not bury the original setting if they could not bury it completely for EN players (which is obviously impossible in this internet era. People would know sooner or later).
Players should stop attacking each other. Non-EN players should stop blaming EN players for not knowing the original, blame the company for it. EN players should also understand that they are the victims of the company’s half-baked attempt. Be mad at the company, not at the original setting you don’t like.
This mess is nobody’s fault but the company’s, y’all. Please stop fighting.
(Edit: I don’t know it makes sense, but for me, a non-EN player, complaining about Caleb’s familial aspect is like:
You buy a book selling as a murder-mystery, and complain because there is indeed a murder in it. Strange, isn’t it?)