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Shift Up says it “doesn’t tolerate any expressions of hate” in NIKKE following backlash over alleged “small genital” gesture - AUTOMATON WEST
Following backlash over an offensive hand gesture allegedly inserted into Goddess of Victory: Nikke, Shift Up has made a statement.
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Although it doesn’t mean much overseas, this gesture, known as the jibgeson or “crab hand” is highly controversial in South Korea due to its association with specific radical feminist groups considered to be “antimale” or misandrist. Said groups used the gesture as a way to mock Korean men, suggesting they have small genitals. Years of heated gender wars between radical feminists and radical anti-feminists in the country have heightened sensitivity towards the gesture to the point that even big businesses like Apple and Renault have been pressured into revising ads which unwittingly evoked the crab hand. It’s been a problem in the game industry too, with Nexon’s artists receiving death threats over a single animation frame suspected of being “secret feminist propaganda.”




