Wuthering Waves Bilibili Account Caught Self-Censoring Cosplay Photos — Adds Black Fabric to Cover Up While Twitter & Weibo Keep Originals, Community Erupts

One cosplay photo, four platforms, four different versions — and just like that, Wuthering Waves found itself at the center of an NGA firestorm.

It all started at the Guangzhou Firefly Anime & Game Convention. Wuthering Waves commissioned cosplayers to portray in-game characters, then posted the photos across all their official social channels. Players quickly spotted something fishy: the Bilibili (B站) version looked different from the one posted on Twitter.

In the Bilibili post, a piece of black fabric had been added to cover the cosplayer's chest area. The Twitter version? Completely untouched.

What made it even more bizarre was that the cosplayer herself posted the uncensored original on her own Bilibili account. Weibo, WeChat, and Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book) all featured the unmodified photos too. In other words, the ONLY account that applied censorship was Wuthering Waves' official Bilibili page.

But it didn't stop at promotional photos. Players pointed out that the in-game character model had also been modified — the character's chest area now featured extra black fabric that wasn't present in earlier promotional materials. The self-censorship, it seemed, extended beyond marketing into the actual game assets.

The comment section erupted immediately. The OP and many users slapped the label "Myanmar scam game" (缅北游戏, a popular NGA slang comparing predatory game operations to Myanmar telecom scams) on Wuthering Waves, accusing the devs of "self-castration" (自我阉割) — voluntarily creating a censored Bilibili-exclusive version without any external pressure to do so.

One user in the replies summarized it bluntly: "Exclusive for foreigners? Nah, exclusive for Bilibili users! Weibo, WeChat, and Xiaohongshu all got the uncensored version. Even the cosplayer's own Bilibili post was unmodified. I'll let you guess who the real target audience is."

Another user sounded the alarm: "They're already adding fabric to cosplay photos — I can't imagine what other 'blessings' await Wuthering Waves' male playerbase down the road."

However, the narrative took a turn when some users actually went to verify on Weibo. One commenter, "极夜姬" (Polar Night Princess), furiously pushed back against the OP, pointing out that the Weibo version was also uncensored — suggesting this was Bilibili's content review system doing its thing, not the company voluntarily censoring.

But other players weren't having it. One pointed out: "The in-game character literally has extra fabric on the chest now — isn't that textbook 缅北 behavior?" Another went further, directly questioning whether the costume design was being deliberately toned down: "The in-game model doesn't match the promotional materials. What's going on? Are they trying to appeal to a broader, more mainstream audience at the cost of existing players?"

At this point, the debate had escalated far beyond a single photo edit. The real question became whether Wuthering Waves was merely navigating Bilibili's content review system or actively self-censoring their character designs across the board. The NGA comment section devolved into a classic faction war between "Shouzong bros" (手游综合版 veterans, a specific NGA subforum community known for harsh takes on mobile games) and defenders of the game, with accusations of "cherry-picking evidence" flying in both directions. Peak NGA entertainment.