Ex-Industry Insider 'Brother Dragon' Declares Anime Gacha Games on the Verge of Extinction — NGA Responds with a Chorus of '11111 Can It Happen RIGHT NOW?!'

An ex-industry insider declares the anime gacha market is dying — and the entire comment section breaks out the champagne. You can't make this stuff up.

The main character of today's drama is a former mobile game industry worker known as 'Brother Dragon' (白龙, or 龙哥). According to the screenshots shared in the original post, he went on a lengthy social media rant arguing that China's anime-style gacha game (二游) industry is on the brink of 'extinction.' Judging by the comment section's reaction, he apparently spent the entire day arguing with NGA's '有男不玩' (won't play games with male characters) faction — a growing player movement that boycotts any gacha game daring to include playable male characters alongside their waifus.

But Brother Dragon's doom-and-gloom prophecy didn't trigger panic — it triggered a party. The top-voted replies were all variations of the same sentiment, expressed through '11111' (typing '1' in Chinese gaming culture signals agreement, but here it carries an unmistakable tone of gleeful anticipation): 'Anime gacha games going extinct? BASED, is this real?!', 'Are they REALLY dying? Can it happen RIGHT NOW?', 'If they actually die out I'm popping champagne immediately.' The fact that a significant chunk of players has evolved from 'disappointed frustration' to 'burn it all down' says a lot about the current state of player sentiment toward the gacha industry.

One user delivered a surgical burn: '白龙 joking about other devs is entertaining enough, but if he wants to talk about the gacha industry, maybe he should first ask himself why he LEFT it — was it because he didn't want to stay?' The implication being: a former practitioner who bailed out of the industry has no business lecturing those still in the trenches. Another comment was even more savage: 'Sure, it's all the pandemic's fault, and the economy, and the big bad market conditions — the practitioners themselves bear zero responsibility. My verdict: not enough of them have died yet.'

The comment section revealed another layer of the argument: many players believe this isn't really about the industry dying — it's about bad products getting what they deserve. One highly upvoted reply put it bluntly: 'If they go extinct, I don't even need to boycott games with male characters anymore — we ALL stop eating slop from the 混厕 (mixed toilet).' For the uninitiated, 'mixed toilet' is Chinese gacha community slang for games that try to pander to both male and female audiences simultaneously, satisfying neither and angering both. Another user pointed to the real problem: 'Every studio is making general-audience games without proper targeting — so why wouldn't players just go with Mihoyo or Hypergryph instead?' — a direct jab at mid-tier devs who lack the quality of industry giants but insist on competing in the same lane.

Players also roasted Brother Dragon's underlying logic: 'How is 龙哥 the real gacha slave here? This delusional confidence that people literally CAN'T LIVE without domestic mobile games to play.' In NGA slang, 'gacha slave' (星奴) refers to players so Stockholm-syndromed by game companies that they can't imagine leaving — applying it to an industry insider is peak irony. Someone else added: 'Doesn't this just mean Mihoyo and Hypergryph become even more dominant? That's amazing!' — the implication being that a market shakeout might actually benefit players by clearing out mediocre competitors.

All in all, Brother Dragon's 'anime gacha extinction' take generated exactly zero sympathy on NGA — instead becoming a community-wide celebration. The industry insiders say the sky is falling; the players say let it fall. This bizarre consensus might just be the most honest reflection of where the Chinese gacha market actually stands right now.