A UP主 (content creator) who barely made a few hundred RMB from Genshin leaks just got slapped with a ¥100,000 lawsuit by miHoYo. Year-end means the corporate legal team is hungry for some KPI padding.
The story is straightforward: a Genshin Impact spoiler UP主 received a court summons from miHoYo and posted it online for everyone to see. According to the documents, this is already a judgment summons — meaning the trial has already taken place. And the UP主's background was quickly dug up: a college student who reposted leaks for easy traffic, never expecting to become miHoYo legal team's target practice.
The original poster raised the obvious question: this person isn't even the source of the leaks — just a reposter. So why is miHoYo going after small fry instead of the actual leakers who broke their NDAs?
The thread exploded with reactions, which roughly fell into several camps.
The "serves them right" camp argued that actions have consequences: "They knew the money was peanuts, the risk was huge, and they still went for it." One commenter delivered a particularly savage take using a palace metaphor — basically, miHoYo's secrets are imperial treasures, and random internet peasants shouldn't be touching them.
But the majority of voices were questioning miHoYo's approach. A commenter with legal knowledge broke it down: based on miHoYo's evidence list, there's zero proof of causation for "trade secret leakage" — the case looks more like an IP infringement claim. Plus, miHoYo failed to demonstrate actual damages, which is basically fatal for any tort claim. And there's a jurisdiction problem too — the defendant is in Guangxi but the case was filed in Shanghai, which opens up a whole can of forum shopping worms.
Another commenter nailed the deeper strategy: this is likely a scattergun approach. If the defendant doesn't show up, miHoYo gets a default judgment. An ordinary person can't afford a lawyer or a trip to Shanghai for the hearing, so they'll almost certainly cave at the mediation stage — delete the account, post a public apology. The court probably won't back the absurd ¥100K demand, but that's not really what miHoYo wants anyway.
One commenter distilled the whole thing perfectly: "It's year-end. Round up a few scapegoats, send a message, and pad the department's performance metrics." That sentence captures the essence — miHoYo doesn't really care about the money. They want every spoiler-reposting UP主 to know that even if you're just a middleman, you can still end up in court.
Netizens also dug up the case of another leak community figure, "Ye Cang" (叶藏). When miHoYo went on a cease-and-desist spree targeting leakers (舅党, jiudang), Ye Cang was the only one who emerged unscathed — even thriving. This led to widespread speculation that Ye Cang is miHoYo's "official spokesperson" in the leak scene, making the selective enforcement look even more suspicious.
The comment section was full of bangers. One viral quip used a satirical formula: "Me plagiarizing ≠ me being guilty. You leaking ≠ you being innocent. Formula solved." — a savage jab at miHoYo's own history of plagiarism allegations while they go after leakers with righteous fury. "Shanghai Always Wins!" became the thread's running joke, perfectly capturing miHoYo's home-court advantage in its own city.
As for the defendant UP主, someone did the math: they'd need to repost leaks worth 1,000x their current output just to break even on that ¥100K fine. Risking a six-figure lawsuit for pocket change in ad revenue — the ROI on that decision is absolutely cooked.
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