Stella Sora, a brand new gacha recreation from Yostar, the developer behind video games like Arknights, Blue Archives, and Heaven Burns Crimson, solely launched a month in the past and is already apologizing for its first large controversy. No, it’s not about microtransactions or a nasty character design, as usually occurs with gacha video games. As an alternative, it’s as a result of a personality allegedly made an notorious penis-pinching gesture known as “crab hand.”
Whereas the pinch gesture has been used to sign a small measurement or portion of one thing ceaselessly, it’s additionally been used within the Korean feminist movement Megalia to insinuate somebody has a small dick. Some males are apparently taking two fingers shut collectively as a private assault each time they see it, together with in video video games.
[특정 모션 관련 안내]
안녕하세요 마왕님,
현재 이슈가 되고 있는 출시 예정 캐릭터의 특정 모션에 대한 마왕님 여러분의 의견을 확인하였습니다.먼저, 여러 마왕님께서 해당 장면으로 인해 불편함을 느끼신 점에 대해서 진심으로 사과드립니다.
다만, 해당 모션의 경우 우려하시는 것과 달리,…
— 스텔라 소라 (@StellaSoraKR) November 16, 2025
Yostar’s apology was revealed on the sport’s Korean X account, as the conspiracy that this sign is being put into artwork to emasculate males originates in South Korea. This all began as a result of Fuyuka, an upcoming character in Stella Sora, has her pointer finger and thumb lined up in such a approach during one of her animations that if somebody wished to fake to see a gesture making enjoyable of individuals’s dick measurement, they may achieve this. As soon as the web took that and ran with it, Yostar updated the animation in order that Fuyuka now has a closed fist within the related scene.
Stella Sora isn’t the one recreation that has needed to apologize and alter its work to keep away from accusations of sneaking in misandrist canine whistles. Stellar Blade developer Shift Up additionally just lately issued an apology for artwork celebrating the anniversary of its RPG, Goddess of Victory: Nikke. That character didn’t seem like it was pinching something both, however as a result of the fingers have been parallel to one another and one was bent, kinda, the staff edited it to take away any doubt. Loopy.
