All the author did was say "no" to turning their male protagonist into a girl for yuri content — and in return, they got their group chat raided, their personal info doxxed, and their novel mass-reported into oblivion. This isn't just being annoying; this is criminal harassment.
The whole mess started in the most absurd way possible. According to the original post, a group of hardcore yuri fans known as "河豚" (hétun, literally "pufferfish" — Chinese internet slang for aggressive, militant yuri/GL fans who demand all fan works cater to female-female romance) descended onto a Blue Archive fanfiction author's page on Ciweimao (刺猬猫, a popular Chinese web novel platform). Their demand? Gender-swap the male lead into a female character so the story becomes a yuri romance.
The author refused. And honestly, that's their right — creative freedom works both ways, and no one is obligated to write what a random mob demands. But the yuri extremists didn't see it that way. What followed was, by all accounts from the original post, a coordinated retaliatory campaign.
Based on the screenshots shared in the main post and comments, the retaliation unfolded in three stages: first, they raided the author's QQ group (the go-to community platform for Chinese creators); second, they doxxed the author's real-world personal information; third, they mass-reported the novel to the platform, resulting in its takedown.
One highly upvoted commenter (Floor 4) delivered a savage critique: "So this is what 'creative freedom' means in the yuri camp's dictionary — literally the Ministry of Truth from 1984." The comparison to Orwell's "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery" hits hard — implying that when these fans say "creative freedom," they really mean "you're only free if you write what we want."
Even more chilling, another commenter (Floor 9) shared a parallel incident and claimed they'd personally seen "about ten" similar doxxing cases from the same faction. In this particular case, a content creator was assumed to be into yuri, received unsolicited DMs demanding GL content, exposed the harassment publicly, and was subsequently doxxed as punishment.
But here's where it gets even worse. As Floor 7 pointed out, rather than showing any remorse, the yuri camp's response was to gaslight everyone: "Over on the other forum, the pufferfish are already spinning this as a publicity stunt. Classic move from our 'innocent' pufferfish." In other words, faced with clear evidence of harassment, their playbook was to flip the script and claim the author orchestrated the whole thing for clout.
Floors 13 and 14 dropped massive dumps of screenshots providing context for those out of the loop — including the yuri camp's usual tactics and prior incidents. Among the evidence was a screenshot of the original novel in question and a controversial interview with the Japanese creator who inspired it, where they expressed wanting to "be reincarnated into a yuri world but feeling unworthy as a male." Some speculate this sentiment may have fueled the yuri camp's hostility toward male-oriented BA fan works at a deeper level.
Floor 15 chimed in with a classic movie-quote shitpost, riffing on a famous line from the Chinese film "Let the Bullets Fly": "The pufferfish must be dealt with at all times — no exceptions. Imagine this: you're chilling with your wife, eating hotpot, singing songs, and suddenly BAM — hijacked by pufferfish!"
Meanwhile, Floor 11's reply revealed a grim resignation: "The pufferfish are THIS crazy? This crazy? You know what, this is actually them being RESTRAINED." The implication being that this level of harassment is considered mild by the faction's standards.
As of now, the incident continues to spread across Chinese gaming and fan communities like NGA, with heated debates over "creative freedom" and the state of the fan-fiction ecosystem. For the BA fanfiction author who got their group raided, their identity exposed, and their work taken down — the damage is likely irreversible.
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