Posted on 07/06/2025 7:58:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The players in the live-action Revenge on Gold Diggers are male protagonists lured into relationships by manipulative women who are after their money - how the man responds shapes the rest of the story.
It topped the gaming platform Steam's sales list within hours of its release in June but controversy quickly followed. Some slammed it for reinforcing insulting gender stereotypes, while supporters say the game cautions people about love scams.
So heated was the criticism that the game's creators quietly renamed it Emotional Anti-Fraud Simulator the next day.
But that wasn't enough to undo the damage. The game's lead director, Hong Kong filmmaker Mark Hu, has now been banned on several Chinese social media platforms.
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A newspaper from the central Hubei province said the game was "labelling an entire gender as fraudsters".
But Beijing Youth Daily praised it for its "creativity", citing the financial impact of love scams: around 2bn yuan ($279m; £204m) in 2023, according to data from the National Anti-Fraud Centre.
[S]ales of the game have continued to soar. It is now among China's top ten titles for the PC platform, surpassing even Black Myth: Wukong which is reportedly the most successful Chinese game of all time.
Some people online have suggested the game is inspired by the real-life story of a Chinese man, known as Fat Cat on the internet, who jumped to his death last year after a breakup.
His death sparked an intense discussion online, where the term "gold digger" was liberally used, with some accusing his ex-girlfriend of exploiting him, leading him to take his life...
Women who spoke to the BBC worry that the video game perpetuates problematic gender norms in China, where society believes women belong at home, while seeing men as the primary breadwinners. [BBC finds normal "problematic"]
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Anyone that doesn’t know a LOT of women are like this are retarded.
[Dean Martin watches from beyond in amusement.]
China is becoming a leader in making games that v gamers actually want. Western developers have lost hundreds of millions making woke crap that doesn’t sell but they keep churning them out and going out of business.
One of the reasons for the gold-digger stereotype is that, due to China’s one-child policy, there are 100,000,000 more men than women in China, and women can leverage that to maximize their market value.
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
The other gender is highly manipulative and lies quite often. This same other gender is against mandatory paternity testing. And this other gender is obsessed with what a person makes and can provide them to the point they will not date them if they don’t meet their standardd, this same other gender says their money is their money, his money is our money. The other gender quickly divorces the other if they have problems providing at the level demanded, because they know courts will favor them and they can leave with cash and prizes, almost always way more than what they entered the marriage with.
So its not an unfair stereotype, its based in reality.
I heard it as “If I ever feel like getting married again, I’m going to find a woman who hates my guts and buy that b___h a house.”
That was actually Lewis Grizzard...
Never understood why they didn’t adopt a multi husband marital model to weather this. Two to three incomes. A wife at home. A wealthier life.
One of the most overrated things in life is a piece of ass and one of the most underrated things is having a healthy bowel movement every day.
I would posit “lots” means “most”.
I suddenly became much more handsome and clever when it became public knowledge what I sold my company for.
The atttention amused my wife of 30 years (who declared me her future husband in elementary school) but only because I am not fooled by them.
Little trivia, slightly unrelated, but paternity testing is basically illegal in France.
Tells you a lot about French women.
Reisure suit Rarry.
“One of the most overrated things in life is a piece of ass and one of the most underrated things is having a healthy bowel movement every day.”
I’ve always said this: Nothing beats the morning constitutional (credit: Nino Greasemanelli).
When your new bride tells you:
“What’s yours is mine & what’s mine is mine.”
In community property states.
That was actually Lewis Grizzard...
“Ripped my heart out and stomped that sucker flat….”
We all say it if we get to that point! 🫠
In Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress,”—I know, “Shut up about that book already!” Right? 🫠—the lunar colonists adopted various forms of marriage including one such as you suggest and for similar reasons: more men than women and at some point y’all do need each other to survive.
The Way of the Strong Man Going On by Himself
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