Earlier this year, the raunchy mobile third-person shooter Goddess of Victory: Nikke (developed by Stellar Blade studio Shift Up) found itself in a bit of controversy, following the release of an image celebrating the 1000th day since the game's launch. That image featured three of the game's characters, one of whom is carting around some presents and a cake with the number 1,000 on top of it. From the outside, it seemed like a pretty standard Nikke image, but it soon came under fire in South Korea for what many deemed to be anti-male gestures.
While it's not really a thing in the West, the pinching emote that we can find almost anywhere and on any device is considered to be a gesture used by radical anti-male groups in South Korea, as tensions over gender inequality are extremely high in the country. Also referred to as the "crab hand" or the jibgeson, it's a gesture that is seen as mocking Korean men, suggesting that they have small genitals. That's why so many people blew up at Nikke's celebratory post, as two of the characters had their hands displayed in a way which was perceived as subtle crab...
