posted ago by DoomerPill ago by DoomerPill +7 / -6

If you've encountered discourse on localization within certain circles, you may have seen @iuntue. He's an active figure in these circles. Most evidence can be credited to him. But something about him is suspicious. Here is the tweet in question. https://twitter.com/iuntue/status/1782585035473985577 I couldn't help but ponder whether the uproar sparked by this tweet is, in fact, orchestrated. A lot of the outrage comes from youtubers and streamers, whose opinions are easily influenced by money. From the looks of things, it appears to be a smear campaign with the goal of smearing anti-localizers as extremists. Even the "based centrists" are going around accusing these demographics of being racist nazi bigots. And this is not the first time a post of his got dogpiled. https://twitter.com/iuntue/status/1730545337335468298

So I decided to take a deep dive into @iuntue as a person.

Let's take a look at his thoughts on Xenoblade 3. https://twitter.com/puppetrevival/status/1783038772440870958 These feel incoherent. It feels like he's putting together random things that a lefty thinks how a chud views video games. An "adult cast" is a bad thing? Sounds like. Regardless of how you may feel about lolicon as a whole, this to me isn't something a lolicon would take issue with, much less even notice. Typically, lolicons argue that the age of a character doesn't matter in the context of fiction. So why does he complain about Xenoblade 3 featuring an adult cast? Here's a similar post on a Ace Attorney character: https://twitter.com/iuntue/status/1752855588696891466 Really comes off as someone trying to larp as a lolicon without knowing what a lolicon believes.

The attacks didn't start until this user replied with the following: https://twitter.com/HenriqueJos12/status/1782585892290355575 A Spanish account with a low follower account. A literal who like this would normally be ignored, but the quotes say otherwise. The fact Twitter takes issue with this one user's reply in particular leads me to believe the outrage is heavily coordinated.

@iuntue's tweets read awkwardly. Very unnatural. I can't describe it, but https://twitter.com/iuntue/status/1783295336313655748 https://twitter.com/iuntue/status/1780040661078548674 Now compare to another anti-localizer's tweets, who sounds more natural. https://twitter.com/Scratch_Point_Z/status/1783141346041299284

Not long before the outrage, he posted this. An attempt to lump in WWII skepticism with localization discourse? Strangely he chooses to censor "Jew". https://twitter.com/iuntue/status/1781901984691323320

At best, @iuntue is just a sperg. At worst, they're a bad actor trying to poison the waters. I recognize that I may be wrong, but I just wanted to share my concerns.