here’s another interesting take i found on tiktok
‼️just a disclaimer‼️ i’m not forcing anyone to believe every article i translate here !!
i translate what looks like the truth. to believe it or not is your right :)
from the author ‼️
switching to silent whispers is pure hypocrisy and directly supports those who are trying to destroy lads.
why and how the developers of silent whispers are linked to the valko scandal.
i’ve gathered all the interesting and crucial information regarding tencent.
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tencent is the largest gaming corporation in the world, regularly involved in high-profile lawsuits over plagiarism, illegal copying, and copyright infringement. the company appears in court both as an aggressive plaintiff defending its franchises, and as a defendant accused of stealing other people's ideas.it’s important to understand: tencent is a giant with immense power, media connections, and the best lawyers in the industry.
the valko scandal: it’s their doingbuying bots, bribing media and bloggers, etc., creating a million fake issues with valko just for the cloutlads makes colossal amounts of money, taking the lion's share of profits from other market giants (including tencent and netease projects).
to shake the leader's position, competitors often use 'water armies'.
the concept of 'water army' and 'business black pr' (heishui)
what it is: in the prc, there are legal marketing agencies that unofficially provide heishui (黑水 — 'black water') services. they manage millions of automated and semi-automated accounts".
tencent or its related entities don’t write hate comments themselves. they hire an agency, give them a brief with key triggers (for example: 'link the character to unit 731', 'promote the topic of domestic violence') and pay to push these tags into the trends of the weibo social network
fanning the flame: the actual dissatisfaction of a small group of radical fans (who simply didn't like the new character) is artificially picked up by thousands of bots.
generating crazy accusations: bot employers use the tactic of spamming absurd 'political' allegations (like what happened with the fabricated hints about unit 731). bots start mass-duplicating these tags into weibo trends, creating the illusion that 'all of china is furious'.
the goal — management panic: the calculation is that gaming companies have very strict reputation kpis, and under the pressure of an artificial 'million reasons', their nerves will crackwhich is exactly what happened: on this wave, infold cancelled valko's releasethe strong accusations were precisely the political topics, and that became the main reason for the sudden cancellationnext will be a summary of lawsuits and competition between infold and archosaur games (tencent).
nfold games filed a lawsuit against archosaur games accusing them of trademark infringement and unfair competition.
the reason for the conflict: infold accused archosaur of plagiarism and illegal use of keywords and elements from its franchises (shining nikki, love and deepspace) to promote the competitor's projects. it was noticed that the creators of silent whispers copied visual elements, fonts, and the interface positioning of games from infold.
tencent's role in the lawsuit: tencent corporation is involved in the case as a third party. this is because the unfair advertising was distributed through its marketing platforms, and tencent itself owns a large share of stocks in archosaur games.the process has dragged on due to legal tricks from archosaur. the defendant (archosaur) filed an objection against the court's jurisdiction, which caused the first hearing to be dismissed, and the process is being artificially delayed. meanwhile, in early 2025, infold already won a similar lawsuit against archosaur regarding their game life makeover, creating a strong legal precedent in favor of the creators of love and deepspace.
regarding sylus's carbon copy and the so-called lawsuit that infold 'won' this year: on the wave of that victory, infold's legal department immediately started the process of documenting violations concerning silent whispers and the character alaric. in china, intellectual property law is complicated: proving plagiarism of a character's appearance and concept before the game's release is legally difficult, so infold is striking from the front of unfair competition and trademarks (the use of love and deepspace and sylus tags in archosaur's hidden advertising.
the outcome: infold won the lawsuit against archosaur over unfair competition, which heavily damaged the opponents' reputation. but the 'sylus cloning' itself in may 2026 caused a new wave of legal claims and a severe public boycott of archosaur by players, forcing the creators of silent whispers to make excuses to the audience.
next will be a summary of tencent's major lawsuits with other games and the final result ⬇️
1. tencent vs moonton (mobile legends) — tencent won (awarded $2.9 million in compensation).
2. tencent vs netease (rules of survival / knives out) — ended in a settlement (netease modified the games).
3. sony vs tencent (light of motiram) — ended in a settlement (tencent completely removed and cancelled its game).
4. nexon vs tencent (qq tang) — tencent won (the chinese court dismissed the korean company's lawsuit).
1. infold games vs archosaur games (with tencent involved as a third party) — infold games won (the court recognized unfair competition on archosaur's part).
2. tencent vs netease (honor of kings vs onmyoji) — ended in mutual lawsuits and closed out-of-court settlements.
3. tencent vs map creators in eggy party — netease / the map authors won (tencent paid hidden compensations for copying locations).
4. pubg corp. / tencent vs netease — ended in a settlement agreement after years of litigation in the us.
with this whole valko scandal topic, here is what infold has in its favor:
- shanghai officially sided with infold because they bring in unreal amounts of taxes.
- tencent didn't expect this kind of reaction from the global fandom. they were sure everything would die down quickly and infold would cancel it fast.
and all the noise happening right now is literally the salvation of lads and infold. we, the fandom, are acting as infold's shield.
that's why the police and infold's department are so deeply involved with each other right now. it was never about the haters, it was paid bots from the very start and a brutal war.
financial blow: infold's love and deepspace revolutionized the market, becoming the highest-grossing 3d otome game in the world and taking billions of yuan out of tencent's pocket.
tencent's failure: revenues of tencent's own mobile projects for the female audience (such as light and night) began to drop rapidly. tencent's attempts to create new games or promote projects of friendly studios (like archosaur) failed. destroying valko is an attempt to disrupt infold's most crucial update and stop their market dominance.
that's exactly why switching to silent whispers and supporting this game is pure hypocrisy. you are supporting the aggressor with your own hands. this is exactly what tencent bought tons of bots for. those who leave for that game, thinking they are escaping toxicity, are actually sponsoring the very people who created that toxicity to destroy love and deepspace.
also from the author:
let me clear something up. first of all, i’m not defending infold. lads has plenty of problems, i’ve never denied that and i’ve always talked about it. but what we’re dealing with here is specifically a cyberattack. my video post is not fake, it’s just simple analytics of everything going on right now and what happened before. media manipulation, coordinated harassment from bloggers, botting views and inflating pre-registrations — all of this is already obvious. read my replies in the comments, there are way more proofs with numbers and facts. trying to justify sw while closing your eyes to plagiarism is just pure denial of reality. honestly, i don't really care whether you play sw or not. as someone connected to art and gaming, i will always protect copyrights. plagiarism is absolutely always bad, and it can never be justified. i can't force you not to play. my job is to deliver the core message and the facts that have already been proven. your job is to accept it or just pass by.
