As consumers, we shouldn’t have to beg a company this hard to let us spend our money on their product.

So apparently yesterday, a Sylus stan became a moderator on LADS Super Topic on Weibo. They mass deleted Valko-related posts, and muted and blocked a large number of Valko fans before being removed. And it made me panic a bit like, oh, damn, we need to do something!

But then it hit me.

Why are we the ones trying to fix this? Why should we, the customers, spend our their time fighting harassment, cleaning up community spaces, and defending a company just for the chance that they’ll bring back a character we’ve been asking to spend money on for a month?

It’s completely backwards!

We’re not employees or community managers. We’re customers.

PaperGames is the company. They should be the ones protecting their community from this kind of behavior. They should be the ones making sure fans can safely enjoy their game, not leaving players feeling like they have to fight bully after bully in the hopes that maybe we’ll eventually be allowed to support the character they want.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t advocate for Valko. I still am. This isn't meant to discourage anyone. It's more like, another realization of how messed up this is. We deserve better than this.

We’re literally putting ourselves through all of this… just to beg them to let us spend our money on them. We're still gonna do it, but it shouldn't even be our job. The company should be protecting us from these toxic people!
I'm proud of all of us for still fighting for him, but we and Valko deserve so much better.