Fellow drama connoisseurs, today we bring you a spectacular train wreck of a gender war — all thanks to a single male player topping the leaderboard in otome game 'Beyond the World' (世界之外). The clash between 'male ketones' (男酮, a derogatory label for men who play otome romance games) and 'otome addicts' (乙解, a snide term for hardcore female otome fans) has reached full boil.
The trigger itself is straightforward: Beyond the World is a gacha romance game marketed primarily at women, so when a male player claimed the #1 spot on its rankings, it was bound to ruffle some feathers. But this wasn't just about a leaderboard — it was the spark that ignited long-simmering tensions between two factions who both claim ownership of the genre.
The most unhinged part? The rhetoric both sides deployed. Someone on the male-player side actually invoked 'ancestral traditions' (老祖宗的规矩) — essentially citing feudal patriarchal customs to argue that women should 'know their place' in the game's hierarchy. The OP could barely contain their disbelief, writing: 'I absolutely lost it when I saw this ancestral rules take.'
It got worse. According to the OP, the 'ancestral rules' comment about calling women 'concubines' (妾) spiraled into male players labeling female fans as '同妾' — a derogatory slur combining 'concubine' with a pun on 'child bride.' Attack levels: maximum.
The female-fan side wasn't any less spectacular. Reports compiled by NGA users show that some called for an outright 'ban on male game designers making otome games.' Others delivered impassioned speeches about how 'women are inherently oppressed by patriarchal society, and otome games are the only pure land' — framing a mobile gacha game as the last bastion of feminist liberation.
One NGA user who went to observe the front lines came back with a devastating observation (Floor 7): 'When they're attacking gay male players, it's "only women should play." But the moment a lesbian player or a female-protagonist supporter shows up? They go straight for each other's throats. It was never about gender — it's just tribalism dressed up as ideology. If you want to enjoy a game in peace, stay away from these "communities". It's all just people weaponizing petty grievances to bully anyone who disagrees. Play how you want, spend your own money, ignore the lecturing.'
Floor 8 offered a more linguistic analysis: 'The gay male players are honestly way more entertaining trash-talkers. Their self-deprecating subculture cranks out memes and one-liners that actually make you laugh. The female otome fans just default to generic insults with zero creativity.'
Floor 12 doubled down: 'The otome fans' takes are embarrassingly low-IQ. The "ban male game designers" thing was already peak cringe, but the one that said women are inherently oppressed and otome games are the only pure land? That's the funniest thing I've read all week.'
Floor 11 brought the historical receipts: 'The otome fans deserve every bit of this. When they were teaming up with toxic stan culture to trash male gamers, they never imagined the same thing would happen to them someday. I can only wish them the experience they've earned.'
The climax came when, according to the OP's final screenshots, a male player infiltrated an all-female otome fan group chat and spammed it with explicit content (news/牛子, slang for male genitalia). The OP called it 'the most unhinged episode yet.'
The NGA gallery audience ate it all up. Floor 17 quipped: 'LMAO, now they're pulling out ancestral traditions — can we at least get some capitalist arguments in here?' And Floor 19 delivered the final verdict that echoed across the entire thread: 'I'm dying. Mobile game drama is way more entertaining than the actual mobile games.'
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