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I am a woman who lives alone in Korea. I'm too scared of this situation right now.
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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A lot of people can relate to frank from the legions hatred for the school system
A lot of people relate to hillbilly’s hatred for their parents
Does that mean these people try to act like these people. No
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You are comparing a fictional killer to a real life one?
Many things will likely overlap since many of the killers are based off of real life murderers.
You don't need to feel afraid of living in South Korea because of one character in one game.
If you do feel like having a panic attack, you need to go see a psychiatrist and book a meeting.
You will need professional help.
Good luck and stay safe.
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I'm not trying to discredit your experiences or anything. We all live very different lives and many of us have experienced hardships that others can't hope to comprehend and I'm sorry you've lived a very difficult life and hope you find peace. However, DbD is intended to be a horror game. A horror game is meant to tug at your fears and mess with you. I can't tell if you play DbD or just saw the character on Twitter or something but If it's too much or you're not in a place in your life where you feel you're stable enough to handle it I suggest you stay away from horror games until you can. Or realize its just a game and even though you're seeing a manifestation of your worst fears the game can't actually hurt you. And men with his aesthetic already exist in Asia. So, I don't really see anyone emulating him. They'd be emulating the style more than anything.
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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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For everyone saying there is no correlation between characters like this in fiction and violence against women etc in real life perpetuated by those who thing these kind of characters are 'cool'.
There is long since the notion of 'if you date a guy and he says 'fight club' is his fav movie etc, RUN'...
Because while liking a fictional character does not equal you wanting to be them, but there is an overlap of what kinds of characters certain people like (and why).
so, you are being quite ignorant when you say there's no chance anything bad could come of this because the character is just fictional.
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you are comparing angsty teenager crap to this? really? and that got 8 upvotes? really?
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There will always be characters that mirror real life. But it doesn't work the other way around, no-one will be inspired to commit atrocities because they saw it in a piece of fiction. There are people that will see characters they resonate with and try to imitate them, but truth be told they would act the same no matter what. If there are no fictional characters, they would latch on to real, horrible people that for with their disgusting self-image. To put it simply, they would commit the actions they commit regardless of whether or not Trickster exists.
I'm sorry you had to go through such hardships. Personally, people like The Legion tormented me and made my life a living hell. Such despicable psycho's are the reason I didn't come out until quite recently. I was hurt a lot and genuinely feared for my life every day and tried to convince myself I wasn't who I really was. But The Legion is one of my favourite killers, because I know that the characters aren't going to inspire more cruelty, they are a reflection of the cruelty that exists in real life.
I hope that this message translates well, should you read it.
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I grew up as a physically and mentally abused farm boy. Do I have a right to ######### and moan about billys backstory and claim that bhvr is specifically attacking people like me with no care? Its a ######### horror esq game. Theres gonna be gruesome ######### and ######### up stories. People need to either get over it or find something else to play.
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Bruh. People have always emulated videogame character's aesthetics. But nobody is going to go out there and become the DbD Serial Killer. I've seen a lot of dudes emulate Sephiroth in my time, but I've never heard of anyone going on a samurai sword killing spree through the streets because he did the same to ShinRa HQ.
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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
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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.
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But that's an issue with people with specific harmful mindsets. There is a good chance that those people would have those harmful mindsets and take harmful actions based on those mindsets without needing a fictional character to lean on as justification.
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Not trying to be mean but if you genuinely struggle to separate fiction from reality this badly you may need to seek help
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Can you provide an example or two that stem from gaming? I know copycat killers exist but like I've stated above I have never heard of someone emulating a videogame character and using that as justification to do crime. People have said the same about violent videogames since the dawn of gaming and studies have constantly proved that false.
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You never liked someone who is antagonist or at least slightly one? If you played a killer in this game you are probably an evil person right? Why would you play as a killer who put people on hooks or even like them.
Your comment generalising every man liking fight club is so funny btw. Imagine thinking like that. Guess everyone who likes anything is evil too because some people who like the same things are. That is your logic btw.
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Sounds like Korean problem, not sure how it related to the new DLC.
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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.
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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
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This game literally has a entire cast of serial killers. Freddy is a CHILD #########. I have trouble seeing how this new character is anything new and it never mentions him taking sexual thrill in his killings.
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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.
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This is just the same old "video games make people violent" argument. Just because the video game character kills people doesn't mean that people who play as him or see him are also going to start killing people. Gamers aren't some wild animals that don't know the difference between reality and a game, not sure why people think that we're incapable of not repeating what we see.
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You beat me to it. This has the same vibes as the arguments that were made as to why Mortal Kombat should be banned.
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"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.
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I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, but suffice it to say you really should do some research on the subject of why people commit atrocities, and why other people blame it on violent media. Specifically videogames, but generally speaking the same rules apply to pretty much everything.
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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.
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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.
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I guess everyone is stealing cars and is a gang member because of GTA.
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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. 😊
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You're crying hysteria over a legitimate fear of sexual violence and the nonchalance of portraying a contemporary killer as "cool"?
No uterus, no opinion.
You can't claim someone is mentally unwell because DBD is portraying a murderer in a positive light. It's a legitimate fear. After the Columbine shooters' videos were shown across the US, school shootings skyrocketed. Why? Because impressionable teenagers and children saw two guys dressed as characters from the cool, new movie that everyone was talking about. It encouraged copycats.
This is a legitimate concern.
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Dude dead by daylight doesn’t portray the killers positively they are literally portrayed as the bad guys in the game
also way to go shutting down any attempt at discussing this issue by saying no uterus no opinion really productive
at the end of the day yes this person does need to seek help as does anyone who cannot differentiate fiction from reality
btw she isn’t going to have sex with you
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Strangers grab doorknobs in Korea and Jack off outside strangers Houses? 🤣🤣🤣 Sounds like florida
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Leatherface was a real dude who ate people, and wore their skin in the 1950’s.
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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?
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Are you right to live in the same country as me? The level of security in Korea is very high, and strangers don't usually knock on the door. And you feel like dealing with Korean men as potential criminals. I'm sorry if you've really been through it, but that doesn't justify treating us as prospective criminals.
And I've seen this article in the Spirit chapter as well. On a famous male hate site in our country. I hope it's not the same.
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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
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If a game makes you feel like this, then don't play the game.
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Lol. I think your image failed to load.
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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.
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It's just a game bro
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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.)
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Thank you for your feedback on this situation, I have passed the information along to the team.
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