Girls' Frontline 2 Valentine's Event Gives Players a TOOTHBRUSH Instead of Chocolate — On the Official Live Server, No Less

While everyone else is giving out chocolate on Valentine's Day, Girls' Frontline 2 (少前2: 追放) character Dai Yan gives you... a toothbrush. And no, this isn't some beta test quirk — it's on the official live server. When players unlocked her Valentine's greeting voice line, the community absolutely lost it.

Here's what happened. A Bilibili UP主 (content creator) posted a showcase of Dai Yan's Valentine's Day voice line, revealing that her romantic gift to the player isn't the sweet chocolate you'd expect — it's a toothbrush. This isn't new either; it was the same during the third closed beta test, and the devs shipped it to live without changing a single word. Tieba (Baidu forums) users even put together detailed analysis posts trying to decode the hidden meaning.

Of course, this isn't Girls' Frontline 2's first rodeo with writing controversies. As one commenter brilliantly summarized: 'I'm increasingly impressed by GFL2's dev team — you'd need real talent to pack this many hidden metaphors. From celebrity quotes to obscure language references, from potato flowers to toothbrushes... this game is absolutely loaded with subtext. Other games have scandals inside the game; Zhaifang (追放) grew a game inside a scandal greenhouse.' This captures the game's notorious track record of writing debacles perfectly.

The toothbrush debate quickly turned heated. One confused player asked: 'What does giving a toothbrush even mean? After thinking for ages, the only conclusion I could reach was that it's insulting players for having foul mouths from all the trash talk.' Another delivered an even more brutal reading: 'At best, it means brushing away the chocolate other characters gave you — showing the character's yandere side. At worst, it's the writing team implying you neckbeards only deserve to fantasize and... you know.'

Adding fuel to the fire, earlier posts in the GFL2 sub-forum had someone claiming to be an insider (舅舅党, a leaker) insisting that the whole dev team was keeping 'Star Sister' (星姐, the alleged lead writer) in check to prevent more controversies. That claim aged like milk. One player offered a bleakly plausible theory: 'Maybe nobody on the team even noticed the metaphor. Everyone's busy putting out fires, so a weird toothbrush on Valentine's Day didn't register as a priority. Meanwhile, Star Sister is probably patting herself on the back that nobody caught it.'

Players also raised concerns about the game's voice system itself. One commenter blasted: 'GFL2's writing is garbage — can't even get Valentine's fluff right, let alone the main storyline. But the game doesn't even have voice acting anyway. 9 minutes of recorded lines sitting unused — I bet two months from now the entire roster will still be mute.' This points to a separate but related frustration: voice lines recorded but never actually implemented in-game.

One player confirmed the toothbrush gift was identical in the beta: 'Third test also had the toothbrush. I'm pretty sure they just didn't bother changing it.' The cynical take was sharp: 'At this point, what's the use of defusing bombs? Either scrap the whole thing and start over, or ship it as-is and go out in a blaze of glory with your remaining hardcore fans.' In other words, the dev team seems to have gone full YOLO.

From controversial celebrity quotes to the potato flower debacle to now a Valentine's toothbrush, the GFL2 writing team keeps finding creative new ways to surprise — and infuriate — their playerbase. One player pleaded: 'Can we just put this game out of its misery and nail it to a pillar of shame?' Another predicted grimly: 'I'm leaning toward this game not surviving six months.' As of now, the controversy continues to brew, and the devs have yet to respond.