A little bit of context (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy)

In 2019, competitive Hearthstone player Blitzchung was removed from a tournament and banned from future tournaments for displaying a sign saying "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" in accordance with Blizzard's policy against political protest during events

Now that they've Targeted Gamers, there was a massive outrage, and the hearthstone community got pissed, so they protested in the following ways:

-Pretending to delete their account

-Preparing for some big protest at Blizzcon

-Some weird scheme to associate Overwatch's Chinese character Mei with Hong Kong protests, in hopes of getting Overwatch censored in China (obviously didn't do anything, based on the myth that Winnie the Pooh is banned in China)

-And most importantly, making big posts about how mad they are

Eventually, Blizzcon rolled around, no protest materialized, and they announced Overwatch 2, so everyone let this die, everyone let Hong Kong be forgotten. A stunning example of Reddit activism, I'll never forget it

  • bananon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Bruh I thought Dr. Mei-Ling Zhou was a real person in Hong Kong politics. I google her and its just Mei from fucking Overwatch

    • Ezze [hy/hym,they/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/dfizf2/overwatch_hero_mei_is_becoming_a_hong_kong/

      The top post of all time on the Overwatch subreddit too.

      They wanted to turn the one Chinese character in the game into an anti-CCP reactionary.