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nonny · 11mo

hi juna! what was this thing enstars did some months ago that almost made you drop the game? i think it had something to do with an advertising campaign using vans? i can't remember and i would really like to know

oh gosh it was over a year ago now but basically, there are advertising trucks in japan that are meant to lure young women who need money into sex work (these are often referred to as the Vanilla trucks/buses), and enstars had an advertising truck that riffed off of that truck's design and jingle. iirc it was just a one-off and not a whole campaign, but still pretty gross!! one of the vas also tweeted about it being funny. a lot of jp/kr fans were pissed off (kr fans especially lol) but altho the news eventually made it to eng fandom it seems like the outrage was a lot smaller. ultimately i obviously went back to the game but no more whaling for me.

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