When a game company tries to mass-delete forum posts to bury its own controversies — and fails spectacularly because players already screenshotted everything — you know you're in for a good time. Sunborn Network (散爆), the developer behind Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium, allegedly attempted what Chinese netizens call a 'history rewrite' (岁月史书, suiyue shishu) — systematically scrubbing embarrassing posts from their official forum. The result? Players dug up even more evidence, and the forum got completely overrun by yuri/CP content. It's the Streisand Effect, gacha edition.
The OP posted a mountain of screenshots as receipts. The first image reportedly shows the official 'hit list' — the content they planned to purge. The rest showcase what actually happened: posts about female character pairings, yuri shipping, and romantic headcanons flooded the forum and couldn't be cleaned up no matter how hard the mods tried.
The OP's deadpan summary says it all: 'Everything got dug back up. They couldn't delete it all. Now the forum literally looks like a yuri fan community.' One sentence, maximum damage.
The top reply immediately dropped what players call the '牢骑语录' (Lao Ji quotes) — a collection of past statements from a notable community figure or possibly an official representative, exhumed as living proof of the hypocrisy. Every time the company tries to rewrite history, these quotes get dug up again like clockwork.
One widely-upvoted comment cut straight to the bone: 'I've never seen a game company delete PLAYER posts because of ITS OWN mistakes. Sunborn is genuinely a once-in-a-millennium kind of circus.' Another user snarkily replied: 'I hope you're only talking about Sunborn' — implying that this kind of community management blunder isn't unique, but Sunborn somehow made it look even worse than everyone else.
But the real bombshell came from the third hot comment, which exposed the fundamental economic contradiction eating the game alive: 'There's a difference between fangirling and whaling (磕 vs 氤). These people only fangirl over CPs but never spend. The actual whales? They got disgusted and left.' In gacha game terms: the shipping community that dominates the forum creates zero revenue, while the paying players who actually fund the game have been driven away by content they find off-putting.
Beyond the deletion fiasco, commenters piled on from every angle. One wrote: 'Even if the story were fine, the game quality itself can't retain new players — they've copied every bad habit from every major gacha out there.' Others noted that Sunborn had been ramping up paid advertising recently, speculating whether the company was about to launch a 'ML offensive' (麻辣攻势, mala gongshi) — a sudden pivot toward male-targeted romance content to win back the core male audience.
But players immediately called this out as wishful thinking. 'Would an ML push even work at this point? Any new waifu would just get accused of being another Reymond situation,' one commenter argued. This refers to an earlier controversy where a female character was perceived as having overly intimate interactions with a male NPC (nicknamed 'Reymond'), which traumatized the community so deeply that players now scrutinize every new character through that lens. Trust, once broken, is nearly impossible to rebuild in a gacha community.
One player tried to explain the cultural logic behind how CP culture cannibalizes a gacha game: 'Old-school otaku who ship female characters together? Their whole point is "I want ALL of them." The classic line "who doesn't love watching two cute girls get it on" — the key word is "for ME to watch." That's the spending motivation. Once it turns into a stan culture (饭圈) where characters 'belong to each other' instead of to the player, the entire monetization model collapses.' In other words: healthy fan content drives sales; stan culture drives away the people who actually pay.
The thread's most devastating comment, however, came near the end: 'Whether they release an ML-focused limited banner or another story-less limited character this month, it's equally laughable. Starting the ML pivot now — the copium huffers won't care, the meme lords won't return, and new players seeing two characters waiting for a rework won't exactly rush to pull. Who is the target audience even supposed to be?' In just a few sentences, this commenter laid out Sunborn's impossible situation: stuck between an audience that's already gone and one that was never coming back.
This whole deletion debacle is really just the tip of the iceberg for Girls' Frontline 2's accumulated grievances: story controversies, CP culture overtaking the community, hemorrhaging paying players, and an indecisive strategy that keeps pivoting between audiences. Sunborn tried to erase the past — but the internet never forgets, especially when players have been screenshotting everything since day one. The forum becoming a 'yuri fan forum' is, in a way, more devastating than any player complaint letter: you wanted to rewrite history? History just slapped you in the face.
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