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CW: This post contains brief mentions of depression, suicide, infidelity, and sexual harassment/assault — please read this at your own discretion.

My very first write-up! (all on mobile, so apologies if the formatting is weird) This gets convoluted VERY quickly, and there are many names involved, BUT I will try my best to make this all make sense. This requires quite a bit of context before we get into the whole tweet thing, so buckle up.

What’s a Genshin and what does it Impact?

Genshin Impact is an extremely popular anime-style mobile open world rpg that was released in September of 2020 by the company HoYoVerse (keep this name in your noggin for later). The game includes a large open world map with exploration and a fast paced battle system. The game is monetized through gacha mechanics: a system that entices players to spend in-game currency (that can also be purchased for real currency) for the chance of getting an in-game item (in this case, either weapons or characters). In Genshin, this comes in the form of “wishes”, which is what you use to pull for the chance of a desired character or weapon.

The Initial Impact

To say Genshin Impact exploded upon its release is a MASSIVE understatement. No matter your opinion on the game, it’s an indisputable fact it broke multiple revenue records within months of its release, and is one of the highest grossing mobile games in history. To this day, it is the most popular game within its niche: having little competition except for other games HoYoVerse has also published.

With its mounting popularity, it’s no surprise that content creators would soon begin to jump on the bandwagon. A handful of notable creators began to rise on YouTube and Twitch — from playing the latest events, discussing characters and their battle prowess, giving guides on game mechanics, analyzing the story, and much more.

As such, these creators (all grown adults by the way, I feel that also needs mentioned) began to talk with one another and collaborate on videos and streams, slowly building friendships and friend-groups who share a similar enjoyment for the game. Some of these creators would even be picked by HoYoVerse to participate in events and receive sponsorships. All seemed joyful!

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This all starts with two creators in particular: Tectone and Atsu

Tectone is a former Genshin content creator you may be familiar with already for… several reasons. He’s been in a slew of controversies, which all have their own convoluted series of events. All you need to know for right now is that he no longer plays Genshin due to his numerous gripes with the game, and he is not quiet about it. This has alienated him from most of the Genshin creator space and he is often referred to as a “drama-farmer”.

Atsu is a Genshin content creator who was known for pulling for characters, reviewing people’s accounts, and, most notably, collaborating with his friend group on videos. For the sake of the drama, just remember the names Dish and Tuonto. These friends of his are also big creators within the Genshin space.

Both Atsu and Tectone were initially friends and collaborated on videos. However, they had a messy public falling out that is honestly not worth going into depth about. Just know it was petty and that they now hate each-others guts and have done so as far back as 2021. I won’t be going too into depth concerning their beef in this post as it’s pretty much the same thing every time.

The Tweet.

Some quick context: Genshin Impact does scheduled livestreams on Twitch and Youtube before each update to show a preview of what’s to come. Creators will often record their reactions to this and upload them to YouTube.

On January 19th, 2024, another Genshin content creator, Zy0x, tweeted “the duality of man” with a screenshot of two thumbnails related to the most recent livestream at the time. The first video, by Doro44, expressed a positive reaction towards the stream. The second video by Tectone expressed a negative reaction towards the stream.

Now, as popular of a game as Genshin is, people expect a lot from it. These expectations are often not met, which leads to a lot of negative criticism. The most notable in relation to this drama is the lack of free rewards and quality of life improvements — a large reason for Tectone’s progressive distaste for the game, going so far as to call for a boycott due to a lack of rewards for the games upcoming “Lantern Rite” event: a huge yearly event to commemorate Chinese New Year as HoYoVerse is a Chinese company. More specifically, Genshin only gave 3 free wishes as a thank you gift for the event, which for many felt like a slap in the face. Doro44 is known for being a pretty positive creator in the space and stays pretty much drama free.

What initially started as a harmless tweet quickly escalated into heated debates. On one hand, people were accusing Tectone of inciting negativity about the game and saying his community were harassing others for enjoying and playing the game. On the other hand, people were accusing Doro44 of overpraising the game for money and saying he should express his criticism for the game more.

This all culminated in a now-deleted twitter thread by another content creator, Fobmaster, talking about how Tectone incited a lot of negativity within the community. They have since resolved their beef and are on ok terms. Atsu quickly followed with his own (also deleted) twitter thread, expressing a similar opinion to Fobmaster. What makes Atsu’s thread so significant is that in his last paragraph, he insinuated that a certain creator was spreading misinformation to Tectone about other creators in the community due to them having a grudge against Atsu, but Atsu did not say who this was:

“p.s. if you’re reading this Tectone & your source for some of these claims you are making happens to be a [creator] that bears a personal grudge against me, please be aware, you are likely being manipulated.”

Now of course, such a public vague-post like this would get people speculating. Who is this mysterious unknown creator supposedly spreading lies to Tectone? And why did this person have a grudge with Atsu?

The Big Reveal

On February 3rd, a creator known as Braxophone (Brax) tweeted the link to a google document titled About Atsu with the caption: “Please tell me what I did, or move on.” To sum it up:

  • Brax was the creator Atsu was talking about.
  • Atsu allegedly spread lies about Brax to other creators.
  • Brax accidentally posted a picture of Tuonto’s then-girlfriend’s face without knowing she didn’t want her face shown publicly, which is one of the reasons Atsu doesn’t like him.
  • Atsu allegedly disliked Brax and actively alienated him from other creators, something that was a factor in Brax’s declining mental health and depression.
  • Atsu allegedly had the ability to get people blacklisted from working with HoYoVerse due to Atsu’s connections with HoYoVerse staff. Brax believes Atsu got him blacklisted.
  • A certain creator at a party “caused trouble” for some women and people were allegedly silenced by Atsu. (Keep this in mind for later.)

Now to say this blew up would be an understatement, with the tweet accumulating a whopping 10 million views. Many expressed their disappointment with Atsu, even including some of Atsu’s closest friends in the replies, and showed their support for Brax.

Atsu didn’t take this sitting down. In response, he posted (yet another deleted) tweet basically refuting all the claims in this document, accusing Brax of borderline-stalker behavior, lying about a blacklist, and bringing up private conversations and situations he shouldn’t have, including a sexual assault in which the victim did not want put out in public. This tweet was clearly very heated, which didn’t help his case in the public eye. This was followed up by a 6 hour (yes) Twitch stream essentially reiterating the same points. Tectone would make a reappearance with his own stream (and several youtube videos), supporting Brax and expressing his very potent dislike for Atsu.

Another Genshin content creator, Mtashed, along with Asmongold, an extremely popular twitch streamer unrelated to the Genshin community, talked with Atsu on seperate streams to clarify Atsu’s connections to HoYoVerse. (only Asmongold’s stream is available but please take my word on Mtashed). Someone like Asmongold getting involved shows the sheer magnitude this drama had, and the YouTube video reposting this stream has almost 1.5 million views. Atsu did confirm in both streams he had some degree of control as to what creators could be sponsored by HoYoVerse, which led many to conclude he had the ability to also get creators blacklisted. This didn’t help Atsu’s case, and as such, many began to express further disappointment with him. Even another popular unrelated YouTuber, SomeOrdinaryGamers, made his [own video](…

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