Code: Kite Fans Raid Hundreds of Unrelated Tags on LOFTER After Getting Roasted on Weibo, Blame 'Rival Companies' — Community Not Having It

If you thought only A-list celebrity stans could organize mass harassment campaigns, you clearly haven't met Code: Kite (代号鸢) players — after getting fact-checked and roasted on Weibo over a museum-related controversy, instead of taking the L, they pivoted to LOFTER (China's Tumblr-like platform for fan creations) and launched a coordinated tag-bombing campaign across hundreds of unrelated tags. Welcome to one of the most unhinged gacha fandom incidents of 2024.

For the uninitiated, 'tag bombing' (炸tag) means flooding specific tags with spam — gore images, irrelevant content, anything to bury normal fan works. As NGA users explained, LOFTER's tag system is notoriously exploitable: a single post can appear under all its tags simultaneously, there's no duplicate content detection, and as long as the images aren't overtly explicit, one account can spam indefinitely without triggering any moderation. One dedicated person can wreck an entire tag with minimal effort.

Looking at the victim list shared by the community, the collateral damage was absurdly wide — tags for everything from One Piece's Kozuki Oda to Dream of the Red Chamber's Lin Daiyu got nuked, despite having zero connection to Code: Kite. Screenshots of the fallout were circulating all over Weibo.

The real comedy gold came when fans tried to spin this — classic deflection: 'it was rival companies framing us.' NGA users weren't buying it for a second. One commenter roasted: 'A game with no official publishing license (版号), pulling in maybe a few million RMB monthly — which rival company would even bother sabotaging you? Get your monthly revenue past 100 million first, then maybe someone would care.' Others pointed out the game doesn't even have a real name yet — it's literally still called 'Code: Kite' — and asked how it attracted so many ride-or-die stans.

The comment section turned into a full-on watch party. One veteran netizen dropped the most devastating comparison possible: 'I've seen this episode before — Xiao Zhan fans did the exact same thing' — invoking the infamous 227 Incident of 2020, the most notorious fandom war in Chinese internet history. Others expressed skepticism about the scale of the operation, saying they'd 'sooner believe LOFTER itself glitched than believe Code: Kite has that many players with that much free time.' One resigned player simply sighed: 'Just watch, don't engage — lesson learned.'

The most damning verdict came from inside the fandom ecosystem itself. An insider revealed that Code: Kite stans (鸢解, yuán jiě) are so toxic that they're notorious even among 厕妹 (cè mèi) — the broader label for aggressive female-dominated fandom circles on Weibo. 'Other 厕妹 literally refuse to associate with them. When they encounter Code: Kite fans, they just pretend they don't exist.' To reach a level of toxicity where even the most extreme fan circles want nothing to do with you — that takes a special kind of dedication.