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I am a woman who lives alone in Korea. I'm too scared of this situation right now.

lim_
lim_ Member Posts: 2
edited March 2021 in General Discussions

Hello. Day by daylight?

I played this game for 900 hours. And I live alone in Korea.


I have something to say about your new character.

I have no choice but to live alone today and always lock the doors and windows tightly. Because in Korea, men come into the house of a woman who lives alone and [BAD WORD] her. He grabbed the doorknob and shook it. He masturbates and leaves. It is a story that not only I but also my friends have experienced. This is a crime that really happens a lot. This is actually the fear that women in their 20s and 30s in Korea feel in their daily lives.

To me with this background. The story of a Korean man's "Hak Ji-woon" was bound to be angry. I'm scared that this man might exist in reality. Why did you express this guy in such a ^COOL^ way? I'm afraid there will be men who copy this character's ^coolness.^

Does my fear give you pleasure? Whenever I read a story, I cry. I'm so scared and nauseous. Don't try to use my fear as pornography. I still avoid men when I walk alone. He takes a video under my skirt. There were times when they hit me while laughing at my appearance. The man peeped at my house and my chest. For me, this is survival. You agreed to Korean men's crimes without your knowledge. If I don't check the doors and windows four times, I can't sleep because I'm nervous. I'm so angry. I still feel like crying with fear. Did you make this story without knowing my fear? Modern killers and past killers are clearly different. It's like making a shooter into a character at school and enjoying his good looks. Just like you don't make 911 terrorists into characters. I'm taking this case seriously. I have to keep my daily life safe.

Would you not respect the fear of half the population and make it just a ^GAME^? This is an apparent abomination of the weak. You didn't respect my life and Woman.


I hope you think about it again. Apart from Asian hatred(But I feel racist through this character.), this is... It ruins my daily life......


Thank you for reading the long text. I hope the world will be safe and happy for everyone. 🙂


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Thank you for replying to me. But I don't know how to reply! sorry.


I'm very fine right now. I am not good at English, so I don't think I can tell you the situation of women in Korea. Thank you for worrying about me. 

Or in the Korean translation, Korean women are cut with knives and groans, and it is described as very pornographic. I think you and I might be looking at a different sentence. I thought the problem could be the Korean translation team, not DAY by daylight.

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  • Phasmamain
    Phasmamain Member Posts: 11,531

    A lot of killers mirror real life. Legion mirror the angst and desire to break rules a lot of teens have. Billy mirrors the hatred towards disabled/deformed people at the time even nurse’s archive goes into eugenics.

    These are all dark themes that are in a mature horror game. This seems fine to me

  • MeltingPenguins
    MeltingPenguins Member Posts: 3,742

    we are not talking about cosplay here.

    We are talking to how people with specific harmful mindsets are drawn to liking certain characters and using these characters as justification to be harmful towards others.

  • kor
    kor Member Posts: 27

    Serial killers and rapists in Korea are not well known in foreign countries. Because even if they commit a crime and go to jail, they don't reflect on themselves, but rather mock their victims with a brazen attitude.


    Above all, the target of the crime is murder against those who are weaker than him.


    And most of all, due to the preference of boys/girls,


    There's a gender imbalance, so most killers and rapists have a significant gender imbalance.

    It's irregular.

    The biggest "characteristic" is that the gender ratio is focused on "male."


    Of course, it's not like there's. It's just "adult."

    In the case of children, there was a killer. It became a big social problem in that the cause of the murder was severe domestic violence.


    If profilers from overseas come to Korea to study,


    You might faint.


    First of all, let me to you.


    "No matter what kind of fear hits you. You run. That's the answer."


    This is the advice I can give him.

  • UnentitledBunnyMan
    UnentitledBunnyMan Member Posts: 313

    The docter "Yang Yongxin" is still large outside in China. We are borned to suffer in this land. Try to go to some defence club and learn to defend yourself. At least your killer does not get support from your gorverment while in China the tourchering teens killer is under the protection of the gorverment and he does not need to hide at all

  • kor
    kor Member Posts: 27

    It's a game that's perfect for studying the minds of serial killers. Not only is there an environment where we can start with psychological experiments, but we can also study the psychology of murderers and the psychology of why they turned into murderers, like contaminated blood.

  • chadbeastofprey
    chadbeastofprey Member Posts: 437

    "nobody will be inspired to commit atrocities because they saw it in a piece of fiction" bro you very obviously know nothing about true crime lmao.

  • chadbeastofprey
    chadbeastofprey Member Posts: 437

    i'm not blaming all of violent crime on media, i'm just saying your statement is completely wrong and ignorant.

    there have been MANY many cases of murderers and other violent offenders who were inspired by things they see in all types of media/copycats.

  • Irisora
    Irisora Member Posts: 1,442

    Im sorry to read that, it must be terrible to live in those conditions, it is a fact that politicians always mind their own business until... they are touched by reality. Sadly we live in a world ruled by greed and bad people. The only thing we can do its take care of each other like we are doing with this covid thing.

    And in any case Behaviour can't be responsable for other people actions. This is a fictional character. It is the police and the goverment of your country that should put that perverted people in place.

  • glitchboi
    glitchboi Member Posts: 6,023
    edited March 2021

    Sorry you're going through this, I honestly don't blame you for what you're going through.

    Of course I don't know how it feels, so it's hard for me to sympathize, but the best I could do is hope the environment you live in gets safer. In fact I don't feel very safe either, but you're going through something worse.

    I hope you're staying cozy during these tough times. 😊

  • unluckycombo
    unluckycombo Member Posts: 582

    I'm sorry that this is the reality you live with, and I hope you do indeed get any help as needed, but I personally love the new chapter because of the realism in the lore itself. It's something that is creepy and terrifying because it's something I could see happening IRL, and to add to it, the killer and survivor's stories and motivations all make sense.

    I also personally don't know how it was written in the Korean translation, but at least in the English version, I never read his lore as sexual. At least, not compared to how I read Clown's lore. I personally took it more as a star who snapped, and the only reason he got as far as he did is because those around him let him. I saw it more as him enjoying the screams because of the fact that they were caused by him and only him and they were for him. After all, in the English version, it states that he was envious of the other people in his group because he didn't like how their fans were split between them. He went on an ego trip, and after having a hand in killing his group, this only got worse, along with a desire for blood.

    Personally, I also like how they kept with the 'K-POP Star' style, as it fits with his lore, and the fact that it just makes it all that much more scary. Adds a certain level of realism to it.

    I hope my post didn't make you more anxious or anything.

  • Kazim
    Kazim Member Posts: 229

    Rather you need to go to a psychiatrist that will happen when you find yourself in a situation that you do not like and it is more complicated to change it or leave it.

  • DTJObe
    DTJObe Member Posts: 170

    Explaining a killer's backstory isn't actively portraying them negatively. Most casual players don't even care to read the backstories. Just because they're on the opposite side of the survivors doesn't mean they're being portrayed negatively either. The Trickster is being portrayed as "cool" or "slick", and that's an issue.

    And you're discrediting this woman's legitimate argument based on the fact that it's a translation that you're not willing to read into. She can clearly differentiate between reality and fiction, but you're arguing that she cannot to discredit her. The point she's making is that this killer is too based in people's current realities to be an innocuous addition to the game. The number of sexual assaults worldwide is on the rise, and 35% of all women have experience sexual assault or violence at some point.

    To have a modern day killer placed into the game, have him wink at the camera, and portray him as cool while knowing that a patriarchal system is in place that makes violence against women difficult to prosecute is clearly an issue that needs to be accepted.

    Your "opinion" was that OP was mentally unwell. That's a terrible thing to insinuate, especially when she's trying to express how glorification of male violence against women with modern day examples can perpetuate more violence.

    You don't live in fear of violence against you because of your gender, so you don't have solid ground to stand on.

    I'm married, btw, so you can knock that ######### off, too.

  • Crackgear
    Crackgear Member Posts: 279

    Yeah, anyone remembered the obsessed girlfriend that stabbed her Japanese boyfriend. As if it wasn't based upon the Yandere genre of Japanese Media Culture of a loving obsessed killer crazy archetype

  • MingBongo
    MingBongo Member Posts: 32

    A lot of killers were influenced or based off of real life events/locations or people.


    The Trickster is no acception, you can clearly see he's based off of a type of Joker-esk style along with serial killer hiding behind an kpop idle identity.

    I don't think anyone would ever want to be a fan of a serial killer, but the Joker part here is somewhat important. The people who idolize him are often plain weirdos who want to get the same attention as the fictional character.

    My point? I totally get where you're coming from, but I think it's unlikely that someone will try to adopt The Tricksters identity.

  • Mistercookie
    Mistercookie Member Posts: 147

    Well I didn't expect this kind of post. I'm really sorry about what you're living and the stress you're experiencing but it has absolutely nothing to do with a fictional character. Psychopaths exist whether there is a game version of the monster they are or not.

    Trickster will not inspire anyone to become something they were not already.

  • Raja
    Raja Member Posts: 319

    Strangers grab doorknobs in Korea and Jack off outside strangers Houses? 🤣🤣🤣 Sounds like florida

  • poomanchu
    poomanchu Member Posts: 242

    Leatherface was a real dude who ate people, and wore their skin in the 1950’s.

  • kor
    kor Member Posts: 27

    Jack the Ripper committed serial murders even without media, how can you explain that? And how would you describe Samuel Little, America's worst serial killer?

  • ddubuckyee_user
    ddubuckyee_user Member Posts: 178

    In addition, I don't think the new killer is cool. It's just ridiculous. To be honest, I don't even want to buy it

  • LexTalionis
    LexTalionis Member Posts: 135

    Many killers in this game are either based on real killers that existed, or have significant similarities to real-life scenarios. Those who have experienced those things first hand will have greater fear of them.


    But saying that you're afraid this exact killer may exist in reality - that's just absurd. If you are that fearful of fictional characters coming to life, please be sure to avoid every horror movie or game ever. You can't seriously be angry at the developers for this.

  • senki527
    senki527 Member Posts: 275

    It's just a game bro

  • Patrick1088
    Patrick1088 Member Posts: 628

    Do video games incite violence has been a question for years. Could Call of Duty inspire real life shootings, and by that extension DBD cause serial killers? I would think people who are already teetering on the edge could get pushed over, but for the majority of the population won't be affected by it tbh.

    I'm not familiar with Korea and the practices, but many of the DBD lore is dark by nature, and rooted partly in real life. There were doctors who experimented on people and we aren't talking just 1930s, but as recent as 1970s.

    One last note is the circle of influence of DBD. Is it really a mainstream game with a wide audience? Its nowhere near phenomenon like Fortnite levels, and even big IP like Pokemon/Splatoon will have greater affects.

    DBD could remove killers and the lore, but then the games couldn't exist as is. They could just resort to licensed characters only, but then lose out on potential original characters.

    I'm sorry for what women in Korea (and in general women go through). I'd there is a way we can help, then please let us know (i.e. social campaign pushing for new legislation, etc.)

  • Mandy
    Mandy Administrator, Dev, Community Manager Posts: 23,166

    Thank you for your feedback on this situation, I have passed the information along to the team.

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