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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026

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Posting links that could be summarized as 'Boo outgroup!' Basically, if your content is 'Can you believe what Those People did this week?' then you should either refrain from posting, or do some very patient work to contextualize and/or steel-man the relevant viewpoint.

You've been banned once for being egregiously obnoxious and this, if anything, is more obnoxious.

What is the content here? Basically "Look at these ugly trans girls" in some niche media nobody else cares about.

I know, not literally "nobody." (Yes, I am in fact familiar with light novels[ETA:visual novels, those too] and probably many other people here are as well.) But this is still not anything of significance. It's somebody redrawing some anime characters as trans, and we should care why? Because you don't like trans? Because you want a disgust reaction?

And I specifically warned you previously that "some rando on the Internet did a thing and I want to rant about it" is not worth starting a thread.

Transgenderism of course is the biggest gas-light of them all, but feminism broadly is filled with some of the most bald-faced untruths of any political ideology.

This is purely waging the culture war. What is "beliefs I don't like are stupid and bad" offering to discuss. Agree/disagree? And the feminism rant was a complete tangent from the main rant, which was "Trans bad." "Trans bad" because... someone redrew moe anime girls to look ugly.

You've run up a number of tempbans, your discourse in general is low quality dragged-in-from-some-Internet-rathole bullshit like this for you to rant about Things You Don't Like, and from a less obnoxious poster I'd just say "Knock it off" but you're already a ban evader we gave a long leash to because we dislike pulling the trigger when there is a small hope someone will actually improve this incarnation.

You're banned for a month. I should probably just make it permanent because almost certainly you will come back and do more of this and make us pull the final trigger in short order, or else you'll just roll a new account. In the extremely small likelihood that you actually care to modify your behavior and participate in a more meaningful way, know that the purpose of the Motte is not just to dump rants about things you don't like and rail about how much you hate your enemies. A disturbingly large number of posters have trouble accepting that, but few go on such a speed-run of shitting the place up every time they start a thread.

The idea that DDLC is niche media that nobody cares about is really bizarre.

This is equivalent to having someone post about Star Wars and you say 'I've heard of Star Trek but Star Wars? Yeah, you can google it up, but there's absolutely no reason to post about such a niche property. Banned for a month!'

He was not banned for posting about niche media.

What is the content here? Basically "Look at these ugly trans girls" in some niche media nobody else cares about.

I think OP's post is a bad post, but I think your take is also a pretty bad strawman. DDLC is the most influential VN made by western devs (soon to be overtaken by TCOAAL) and arguably the most influential in the english speaking audience. When it went viral it firmly penetrated into the normiesphere.

The fansom has shrunk since then but I still think this incident is quite an interesting scissor statement that manages to piss off different people for different reasons.

Obviously I think OP is wrong but I have to accept that it's hard to grasp what is truly at the core of this situation.

DDLC is the most influential VN made by western devs

It is the #1 most popular (as opposed to most liked) OELVN on VNDB, but only by a tiny margin over Katawa Shoujo. Admittedly, it's a biased sample insofar as non-weebs who read DDLC wouldn't tend to visit VNDB.

(For anyone reading this who's confused: Katawa Shoujo is not actually Japanese, despite the Japanese title. It was made by 4chan, and originally in English, though they did translate it into Japanese afterward.)

Yes, I am in fact familiar with light novels

Confusing them with visual novels casts some doubt on this assertion.

I do actually know what both of them are, but you are correct, brain produced the wrong token output.

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