"The more frivolous these people are, the more she loves to talk about Neil."
As one of the most well-known dating apps in the world, Tinder, which pioneered the "left slide right slide" dating model, is also more and more favored by scammers like many domestic competitors.
In the documentary "Tinder Fraud King" launched by Netflix in February this year, it was exposed that a pig killing master who wandered among multiple women, relying on the identity of a Middle Eastern prince and the enemy family to chase and kill the drama to deceive money and cheat feelings. Even if he once entered the classroom and went to the news, he is still at large and continues his "hunting".
Just recently, the story of another Tinder "female liar" was spread. However, this time, the protagonist did not cheat or cheat money, but induced 22 men to buy "Neil: Automatic Humanoid".
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Ennja, a 21-year-old Twitter user, likes his favorite game is Neil: The Automatic Humanoid. Compared to the average player's support for just buying a copy of the game, her love for the Neil series is obviously much more fanatical.
In a corner of her home, Ennja has carved out an area she calls a "shrine." The various game peripherals and a giant candle on it all highlight the aesthetic of this series' cult style, and exude a lot of money by the way.
A few years ago, she also got the attention of series producer Taro Yokoo himself on Twitter with a large-scale welfare photo of the two heroines in Cos", Neil: Automatic Humanoid, which made her especially happy.
It was such an avid fan who recently claimed to have tricked 22 men on Tinder into buying her favorite Neil: Automatic Humanoid and then quickly disappeared.
In an interview with foreign media Kotaku, although she could not prove the figure of 22 people, the flirtatious dialogue full of screens from some of the chat records she still kept was enough to prove the authenticity of her unique "game recommendation".
When chatting with these people, she always talks a lot about Neil: The Automatic, and how strongly she loves the game. Some people will buy the game in "side knock", and sometimes she needs to directly ask the other party to place an order. Although the purchase did happen under Ennja's inducement, she never promised anything, did not promise anything to happen with the other party, nor did she promise to wear a 2B uniform for them.
Among those who bought the game, even if some of them seemed to have actually completed the game, they discussed different endings with her. But most of them, in fact, just think, "The game is good, but there's nothing to talk about." So after these people buy the game, she often disappears quickly, never replying to their messages, and turning back into an ordinary two-dimensional enthusiast who is harmless to humans and animals.
Ennja, who usually appears on social media, in addition to the Neil series, has also dabbled in a wide range of JRPG works such as the manga "Hunter", the anime "Battle of Two Cities" or "XenoBlade".
Just on the Twitter of her dozens of fans, most of the content is retweeting other people's second creations. She rarely expresses her opinions, and few people come to her account to comment, which is basically a little transparent.
Ennja's Twitter avatar
But after this matter was exposed, her account fans have multiplied to nearly a thousand, gaining great attention. Whether it is a fan of the "Neil" series or not, they all rushed to watch this rare "sex-seductive game recommendation". Even the game's producer, Taro Yokoo, once again retweeted the news with the inscription "Glory to mankind."
But in fact, this kind of "sex-seductive Amway" is not the first time it has appeared in the game industry.
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Released in 2005, the game "Killer 7", as one of the masterpieces of ghost producer Tsuyoshi Suda, also has the same unique temperament as Neil: Automatic Humanoid - and a fanatical fan who tries everything to recommend the game to others.
In one of the adult dating forums, there was once a "Player Recruitment Notice" posted by a Killer 7 player. In the first sentence of the main text, he makes it very clear: "This is, and is not a sex ad." ”
"I need a young man, between the ages of 18 and 29, to come to my house and spend dozens of hours playing Killer 7 on NGC. Because it's amazing, it doesn't take any expense other than time to sublimate your life. ”
The story of this seven-fold personality killer has been released for PC in 2018
Immediately after, recruiters began to explain why nudity images appeared in the ads. It's "just" because he may not be hanging around the house without clothes, and emphasizes that "you're not here for me, but for Hitman 7."
Candidates need a person to go to his apartment and play this single-player game. Recruiters say they might watch from the sidelines, maybe they might not close the door and take a shower, maybe they might have some "small interactions" while the other person was playing games, or they might go out shopping, and anything could happen. But candidates need to focus on the game no matter what happens, "You're here to play, and there's nothing more to look forward to than Killer 7." ”
Even though the ad is full of provocations and hints, the publisher still explains the gender and age requirements in a serious way:
Killer 7 is an adult game, so candidates need to be at least 18 years old; This game does not resonate with middle-aged people outside of Japan, so it cannot be more than 30 years old; There's also a slightly stereotypical "It's a video game, you know, so you need to be a man."
There are many details in the original text that are not easy to translate
Whether it is the content or the form, this "recruitment notice" is full of Suda Junichi's style, and it does implement the "seduction amway" more thoroughly. With it, Ennja's game promotion story suddenly seems less bizarre. After all, it seems that it is not an easy task to surpass this predecessor with complete elements.
In fact, this female fan of "Neil" did not think at all to sell the game to "cheat sales" at the beginning.
Like all people who are new to dating apps, Ennja downloaded Tinder just to make friends. She thought that by writing her favorite game in the profile, she would be able to find people who also liked the game, rather than just looking at her appearance.
But she did not expect that most of the so many people on the "match" later were flirtatious, and they always wanted to coax her to fast forward to the next step.
This inspired her rebellious mentality. Since there was no drama between the two, she felt that "it was better to do something", and the more frivolous these people were, the more she loved to talk about Neil. Giving hints or explicitly asking them to buy the game and then flashing away, she knows very well that "the better the sales, the more successful the sequel", so she simply makes a contribution to this.
She added to it herself, and she also had two people buy Neil: Artificial Life Plus.
At first, she thought it was funny, until more and more people brought her similar experiences, and she gradually felt tired, and even fell into a struggle and began to feel guilty.
Some people's speech and demeanor did disgust him, but others may simply not be interested in the game, and the chat was not excessive. She began to suspect that her actions might have deceived the other person's feelings, so she quickly braked.
Ennja, who used to be, was also plagued by emotional trauma because of her original family. Perhaps it is this empathy that allows her to imagine strangers on the Internet in a more kind way in time, even if sometimes this attitude can only be criticized.
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Unlike the two-dimensional image on the social media, which is not low in concentration, Ennja, who has changed out of her Cos suit in daily life, is a formally dressed paralegal. The circle of life is not large, there is no one at work who loves ACG, and she has not had any like-minded friends in reality for a long time.
She once mentioned to reporters that her original family was very bad, she was scolded and abused since she was a child, and she once fell into depression and could not extricate herself. It was during such dark days that she played Neil: The Automatic.
This game not only fits her aesthetic very well in music and art, but also expresses her emotional core, which also makes her very identifiable and deeply inspired her. Since then, Ennja has become obsessed with the game and began to build the aforementioned "Neil Shrine" at home.
For her, who is very eager for friends, there is a sentence in the game that she takes for granted, which becomes the motivation for her to take the first step: "The future is not given, but something that needs to be obtained." So she tried to reach out to dating apps, hoping to find friends who could talk about Neil together.
This quote comes from the E ending in the game
Judging from the results, this attempt was undoubtedly a failure. Especially after this special "game recommender" experience was reported, although most netizens expressed their desire to make friends with her while complaining, there were still a small number of people who began to suspect that her story of "family trauma, depression and then redemption" was too fake and routine; Or simply attack her directly, she is taking advantage of the popularity of the game to hype her own account, and it will almost develop into a new wave of Internet violence.
But Ennja ignored any criticism and couldn't see what he wanted to do with the influence he had just gathered. As events have cooled down, today's Ennja has not only long since found a community where everyone loves Neil, but twitter fans are also steadily approaching the 1,000 mark.
Whether these people came for welfare or her story, at least she didn't have to worry about no one talking to her about Neil, let alone tricking each other into buying games. Fortunately, in the end, Ennja still found what she wanted to "get".
She continued to like and retweet her favorite diopus on social media at her own pace, except for making good friends, as if nothing had happened, just like her ever-unchanged Twitter signature:
"Let's talk and then make friends!" ^^”