Incredibly disappointing to see from you
Hate that this has to be my last post on the forums, but I really can't let this go unsaid:
This is the official DBD twitch account acknowledging that giving every DLC to a known racist and homophobe wouldn't be received well. We're already seeing an uptick in the worst kinds of people commenting on posts with their bigoted vitriol, is this really the kind of thing you want to endorse?
Saying you support the LGBTQ community with one hand, and then gleefully giving free handouts to queerphobes with the other is a really disgusting thing to do.
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They collabed with TheBurntPeanut and openly said they could take the heat in regards to catching flak for his slur usage?
Fully expecting this to explode in visibility sometime soon and blow up in BHVR's faces, at which point they'll backtrack and apologize because they cannot in fact take the heat.
Frankly, this is disgraceful behavior from BHVR akin to frat bros, and if they did the barest minimum research into which content creators they blindly gift hundreds of dollars of content they'd realize this collaboration is only going to hurt their brand and credibility for the sake of a meager audience boost.
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This whole thing is gross. I was excited for Terrifier but I'm keeping my money. "We can take the heat!" shows they knew what they were doing
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i’m going to be honest as a canadian supporting a known bigot like burntpeanut goes against our canadian values, bhvr should be living up to the standards our country stands for. I’m incredibly disappointed in them and will not be giving them anymore of my money going forward.
Bhvr as a canadian company you represent our country and you should be ashamed of what you chose to promote. Shame on you.
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So they got literally nothing out of this?? I'm kind of too baffled for any anger to even register.
They spent literal years with all this targeted promotion towards Queer communities trying to position DBD as a specially cultivated pro LGBTQ space, and they're throwing it all away just to back a guy literally cosplaying a peanut, known previously for hate speech, presumably because he was in Fortnite?
I'm convinced I could go back in time 10 years and convince people that paragraph was a goddamn madlib. This is like the Pinhead NFT controversy, except BHVR doesn't even get to make a Twitter post saying "we didn't know what they were gonna do with the model, we swear!!" because their comment was so blatantly about TBPs bigotry that there's not an ounce of plausible deniability to be had.
Wow. Just wowwwwwwwwwwwww
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I figured I was done with my posting after the "Forums are going away" post but saw this. I guess since I haven't played in years, maybe I don't "get" an opinion on this but what happened to the company I loved man?
BHVR made an incredibly bold move of removing the "Claudette Face" from Bubba years ago, taking heat from all kinds of people (racist idiots as well as normal people who were upset they had cosmetics taken away because of racist idiots being racist idiots) after the racist idiots were using them to harass black streamers.
Now they're just giving out free ish to, at the VERY BEST, a streamer who is known to have an incredibly toxic, homophobic, and racist fanbase.
Just because I don't play the game anymore doesn't make it less sad to me to see a game and a company I sunk WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many hours into make such a bonkers own goal like this…
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Oh hey, good to see you one last time.
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"This is like the Pinhead NFT controversy, except BHVR doesn't even get to make a Twitter post saying "we didn't know what they were gonna do with the model, we swear!!" because their comment was so blatantly about TBPs bigotry that there's not an ounce of plausible deniability to be had".
Yeah, I was pretty sure they had forgotten to do a background check, but then I saw that comment.
It may not be surprising, but it is very disappointing.
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What the #########? How is it that I wake up on the day the forums are supposed to be getting closed to see this? How many bad decisions can this company make in a single day.
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I am really sad about this, I really hope the Community Development Lead has something to say about this. Surely it wasn't them behind it… right?
We should not in any case be giving anyone who spreads hatred a place in our spaces, if you are complicit to that, we need a new community lead, I'm sorry but that's just my opinion.
Hopefully we hear about this tomorrow.
I implore people to be more vocal on the discord forums too, it's the only way we can keep communication as this thread will be gone very shortly.15 -
Disgraceful behaviour by Behaviour. I barely follow streamer news but even I know that this guy is a right wing bigot. I guess bhvr are more interested in money than actually supporting LGBT groups
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Yikes.
I'd seen some complaints about BHVR working with this guy, but I'd never heard of them before and was willing to give BHVR the benefit of the doubt. Not after that comment though. As if, today of all days, us forumgoers needed any more reminders of their real priorities.
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Back for one more post to ask can we fire Mandy already? She is a horrid community manager and always has been. Disgusting behavior.
EDIT: Let Ryan take over he's been chill and actually communicates with us.11 -
Killed the forums and now working on killing BHVRs reputation with marginalized communities. Its like that grim reaper meme. What will she work on killing next?
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Remember:
BHVR is the company who used a "wheel of privilege" to judge people based on their ethnicity, sexuality, gender and other factors in order to determine what level of "privilege" a individual people have.
Using those kind of metrics to judge people is in itself racist, sexist and judgemental of sexuality.
For a company calling themselves "Behavior". they sure don't have good behavior.
But i suppose this is how it goes:
- Big streamer brings in his community.
- The community spends money on the game.
- Behavior is happy.
- They allow their bad behavior because money.0 -
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doublepost bc at this point who gives a ######### but can we please start making heads roll at BHVR bc this is getting ridiculous
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The whole ''bhvr using the wheel of privilige'' claim was entirely made up by a ragebaiter on twitter. The person who originally posted it never backed it up nor gave any proof to verify the claim's validity whatsoever.
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Wasn't that Blizzard?
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Greattttt, one last middle finger before the forums gets shut down
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For posterity, they responded. Quicker than I expected them to, too.
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Oh you know it's bad when they're working on a weekend 😭
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They could take the heat…for about six hours.
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What an empty response. They avoided posting on main and avoid actually outlining any sort of action taken beyond "Won't happen again guys, trust ;)". All this does is make every bit of allyship that BHVR shows look preformative.
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It's why they made this new account. Keep these type of "negative publicity" messages off the main page.
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like Sabrina Carpenter says “Oh Boy”, BHVR why would you do that? Terrible look.
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Like even if you wanna be as reductive as possible as say BP isn't what people are calling him (his community 100% is and I'm not sure why you want to bring that crowd into the game but w/e) the fact of the matter is a BHVR employee went into a twitch stream and gave that streamer every DLC with no permission from higher ups when there have been streamers who have been trying to get into the creator program for years and have supported the game day in and out and get nothing for it.
And then when it's brought up to them the reply is "lol I'll take the backlash idc" followed by "sorry that happened" you will never convince me BHVR actually gives a **** about it's community.
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How on earth does an individual even have the ability to do something like this without clearing it with others first? Well, here's exactly why that's a really bad idea, I guess.
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Disappointing but not surprising seeing BHVR chasing the coin by cosying up to the phobes.
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Mandy can just… give people things?
Just off the cuff, from the comfort of her home?
What about that guy that needed 6 auric cells for 2B? Bro was talking about his unfortunate amount of cells on Twitter for days.
But a random low effort Vtuber gets hundreds of dollars of DLC for free?
That's genuinely tens of thousands of auric cells they spared.
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The woke lefty's are out in force today
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The ironic thing about calling peanut a vtuber is he doesn't consider himself one and actually hates them because….idk he just seems miserable tbh.
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"Woke leftys" lmao
If you still use woke as an insult you need to be studied.19 -
From the comments on social media, it's Burnt Peanuts bigoted followers who are out in force. Ya'll are nasty
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He's not a Vtuber?
That's my bad, how intolerant of me, I didn't realize he's actually a real peanut.
I'll review my own performance & do better in the future 🌈❤️
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Im out of the loop lol i know of peanut just not whats got everyone flipping tables.
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Like most companies, BHVR only cares about making money.
Honestly I am surprised there is so much outrage about this.
It's not like BHVR has ever should themselves to be a bastion of integrity.
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TW : This meme features F slur but too funny not to share
""Me trying to impress mandy so I can get all dbd dlcs for free""
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I wouldn't say they only care about money, if that were true they wouldn't be recycling auric cells in the rift & giving maps away for free.
They could very easily EA it up & charge $20 for literally everything they make.
The problem is the blatant hypocrisy, they created the whole rainbow in the fog event & act buddy buddy with LGBT creators, then they do this?
Well, Mandy did it """without permission""" apparently.
I'm not sure how believable that is considering how many positions Mandy holds.
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It doesn't surprise me too much. Out reach efforts would fall under her department and engaging with influencers/content creators is a huge part of their model.
I think the bigger reason for giving 'everything' is they don't want a new audience to see how much of the game is locked away.
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"engaging with influencers/content creators is a huge part of their model"
Oh, I see.
Does BHVR know that?
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Considering how much of Mandy's work day seems to be committed to watching Hen's stream, I'd say they must
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Grow a pair and touch some grass you bozos, this "human empathy crowd" has already started a witch hunt for a defensless DBD employee for no reason at all, forcing BHVR to come forward with an official statement to calm things down before anyone got hurt.
You people are genuinely mentally ill and should knock your bs off, nobody gives a sh.t about your woke nonsense; once you step outside your bedroom – if you ever actually venture out – you realise your opinon has never counted for a thing, and the truth stares you right in the face.-17 -
who are you?
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i'd imagine mandy actually has a lot more control over things than people realize, mainly because of how long she's been there and how much she has been one of the faces, much like mathieu before he retired to the marketing department.
but yes, the back and forth is frankly exhausting. but it's a similar pattern you will see with many other corporations. bhvr just happened to fall in line because the money is greener now.
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I was a bit hyperbolic saying they "only" care about money, but it's not far from the truth. It's certainly their top priority and everything else is miles behind.
They care much more about bringing in new players than retaining old players because they already got our money. A pack of whatever-have-yous from some nut's stream is a perfect way to bring in new players who could potentially drop $200+ each on DbD in short order. That's why this stunt doesn't surprise me.
It's not like all the people raging can refund their purchases now can they? So truly how bad can this backlash be for them?
As for permission I think this is perfectly within Mandy's promotional powers.
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People don't like bigots or companies who openly support them, feel free to project your way around that simple truth.
If you actually went outside you'd realize people are tired of hypocrites like you crying about wokeness while calling everyone else snowflakes.
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this is what happens when BHVR has been catering to these freaks for the past 5+ years now they are losing money from 2 groups of people
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