Zhihu User Fabricates Arknights Creator 'Harassment' Story with Doctored Screenshots — Gets Exposed, Creator Says 'Huh? What Cyberbullying?'

An Arknights content creator got 'cyberbullied into disabling comments' just for playing another game? Sounds juicy — except the entire thing turned out to be a laughably amateurish Photoshop fabrication.

It all started on Zhihu (China's Quora). A user called '黄桃果酱' (Huangtao Guojiang / Peach Jam) posted a question alleging that Bilibili Arknights creator '泥萌都是托' was mobbed by angry Arknights fans — and even forced to lock their comments — simply because they posted about Zenless Zone Zero (miHoYo's new action game). As 'proof,' the user attached video screenshots (with dates visible) and comment section screenshots (with dates conveniently blurred out).

Several Zhihu respondents immediately took the bait, writing impassioned defenses of the 'bullied' creator and condemning the alleged mob, racking up plenty of upvotes in the process.

But eagle-eyed netizens soon spotted the catch: those comment screenshots had their dates deliberately redacted. The comments were actually from a year and a half ago — ripped from an entirely different post and spliced onto the creator's recent activity. In other words, the whole 'evidence' was fabricated from top to bottom.

Here's where it gets even better. When someone reached out to the creator via QQ (likely their actual account), the response was legendary: 'Huh? What cyberbullying?? I had no idea!' That's right — the supposedly 'bullied' person had absolutely zero awareness of being 'bullied.'

The creator then posted on Bilibili quoting the iconic line from the Chinese film 'Let the Bullets Fly': 'They said Big Bro is dead — that's BS, Big Bro ain't dead!' A hilariously deadpan denial of the entire narrative.

After the fabrication was exposed, the original poster '黄桃果酱' tried to defend themselves in the Zhihu comments, insisting 'this wasn't a bait question' — while conveniently saying nothing about the doctored screenshots. Meanwhile, the respondents who had passionately defended the creator quietly deleted their answers. What remained were responses mocking the fishing attempt, dunking on the gullible respondents, and a half-hearted copium argument of 'well this specific case is fake, but similar things DO happen, so that community is still terrible.'

And the cherry on top: after some digging, netizens concluded that '黄桃果酱' — the one who started this whole fabrication — is actually an Arknights player themselves. The original NGA poster described the situation perfectly with a military metaphor: 'The recon team planted the beacon, but the assault squad never showed up.'

NGA commenters were absolutely losing it. One wrote: 'This is literally cyber Israel — same strategy, same tactics, same blame-shifting playbook.' Another quipped: 'Nobody noticed three years of miHoYo bootlicking, but one fabrication later and you're suddenly branded as an Arknights warrior (利刃).' Someone else tried to analyze the bigger picture: 'They want to enforce a so-called "digital chastity lock" so creators can't play other games — but honestly, full-time Arknights creators are mostly multi-game players anyway, so what exactly are they locking down?'

The original NGA poster summed it all up in one line: Either one person went fishing and got caught, or a group coordinated badly — the scout fired the flare but the assault team was still eating lunch. The situation has now entered 'Stage 2: Denial and Coping.'