‘They talk like we’re actually soldiers’

It took GantztheDemon 10 days to be able to play Helldivers 2 again. On Feb. 21, TikTok user AJGaming shared a video featuring Gantz killing them. The sequence went viral overnight, garnering 4.8 million views as of this writing. A subsection of the Helldivers 2 community, hung up on the politically charged satire theme of the online shooter, labeled the player as a “traitor” and began inciting others to shoot on sight. Alongside dozens of TikToks campaigning for a witch hunt, Gantz’s PlayStation account was temporarily banned after receiving hundreds of reports.

  • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
    174·
    4 months ago

    Maybe if you want a satirical fascist regime to fight for, stick with Starship Troopers Extermination? Idk, but it seems like that community is more meme-y than HD2.

    I just think back to the OneyPlays video where they kept coming across the guy who kept saying “you apes wanna live forever?!”

    • Bimfred@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      4 months ago

      If Starship Troopers had the player numbers of Helldivers, these articles would be about that game instead.

    • Funderpants @lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      What an amazing piece of dialogue, it invokes a paradox. The way to achieve eternal life for a trooper is to die in glorious combat. So the answer is both yes and no.

      What a great film, too bad there were no sequels.

      • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        There were several sequels, but they were all terrib-ohhhhh, I see what you did there