Girls' Frontline 2 App Store Ratings Flooded by 'Ancient Phone Army' — Even a Gree Phone Shows Up to Leave 5-Star Reviews, Players Cry Astroturfing

A mobile game launched in late 2023, yet its app store ratings are flooded with 5-star reviews from phone models dating back to 2013 and even earlier — and yes, a Gree Phone (格力手机, an infamous AC-maker's failed smartphone experiment) somehow showed up to the party. The rating section for Girls' Frontline 2 has become the community's biggest laughingstock.

The original poster opened with biting sarcasm: "What amazing optimization — even a 13-year-old phone can run it (deadpan reading)." Attached were over a dozen screenshots of the app store's rating section, showing an army of 5-star reviewers clearly using decade-old phone models. The star of the show? The "Gree Phone" — a smartphone released in 2015 by Gree Electric (the air conditioner giant), which was so disastrous that virtually only Gree employees were forced to buy it. It couldn't even run Honor of Kings without lagging, and it forced a boot-up animation of Dong Mingzhu's (Gree's chairwoman) face on every restart.

The first reply piled on with even more evidence screenshots, blasting: "Who hired these shills? Straight out of 2015." One commenter unearthed a phone screenshot from 2012 and marveled: "This phone is older than Sunborn (the developer) itself."

The comment section instantly turned into a roast session. The Gree Phone became the biggest meme — one user was genuinely shocked: "Wait, Gree actually made a phone?" Another veteran netizen went full historian: "The thing was so bad that literally no one outside of Gree's own employees bought it. Every time you boot it up, Dong Mingzhu's face pops up. Who actually wants that?" A reply doubled down: "Dong Mingzhu's face greeting you at every startup — is that based or cringe?" One older commenter sighed: "Has the internet gotten so young that people don't even remember the Gree Phone memes?"

The community's roasts covered every angle imaginable: "That's the Undead Army for you" summed it up perfectly. One player cracked a lore joke: "Doesn't this perfectly match the GFL setting? A bunch of ancient relics fighting future technology." Another pointed out the logical absurdity: "A phone from 2013 probably couldn't even run the original Girls' Frontline at launch, let alone the sequel." One commenter went full anime villain with "The dead rise again!" — and the classic copium line: "Can afford an RTX 4060 but not a new phone? I'm literally crying right now."

For those wondering how this even happens, one tech-savvy commenter provided the answer: many Android emulators and cloud phone (云手机) services default to spoofing ancient phone models. Cloud phones typically emulate Snapdragon 710 devices, but some emulators still masquerade as Motorola relics from over a decade ago — processors built on 28nm or even 40nm fabrication nodes. These prehistoric devices can't even open the Bilibili app, yet somehow they're all posting glowing 5-star reviews for Girls' Frontline 2? The math ain't mathing.

"It's a Corpse Party alright," "What kind of Scourge army is this," and the sardonic "The older the phone, the stronger — don't you get it?" — the entire comment section turned this suspected rating manipulation into the comedy event of the year. From Gree Phone to the Undead Scourge, Girls' Frontline 2's rating section has officially become 2023's most surreal mobile gaming archaeology site.