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Yes, it's absolutely true that ALL LED BANNERS are generally not allowed at events like this. Fans sneak them in. All fans of all colors. MTJJ sneak them in, turtles sneak them in, Yixing fans sneak theirs in, etc. etc.

In fact, even rival fan groups have helped each other smuggle in their light banners at times (such as for Tencent 2020, when turtles and others helped XFX get their banners in - and brought red banners themselves - so they could give GG his red ocean). Fans have also shared solid color panel graphics to each other that they could load onto their phone screens to hold up when their light banners were confiscated.

It is a widely known reality that light banners are generally considered contraband at events, especially large ones.

No doubt there is plenty of footage of security yelling at fans and arguing with them about their banners. Some of which involved security coming after motos and trying to get them to lower their banners (there are clips of that in my post!), and some yelling at turtles. This should not be even remotely surprising.

No doubt there was also a tsunami of complaints from MTJJ about the presence of turtles. They love trying to get turtles into trouble, creating huge disruptions around turtles and then pointing at that disruption and saying, "See, they're so disruptive!"

As I said in my post, security is concerned with visibility and comfort for all audience members and will require obnoxious banners to be lowered/removed, regardless of color.

Solos cherry-pick clips that seem to support their claims, conveniently either editing to remove context or only showing situations where turtle banners were being addressed by security - all to deliberately mislead people into thinking it was specific to turtles. Especially on Twitter, where antis deliberately mistranslate things for unsuspecting international fans.

As I showed in my post, they will present clips that appear to be about one thing when it's actually something else entirely. Don't believe their BS. Don't be a rube, my friend. Use your head.

If you're going to go around Twitter and read posts from antis, that's your choice, but realize you're going to be duped, misled and abused, and don't come crying to me about it. I'm getting tired of people sending me anti messages and asking me to parse them. You should be able to do that yourself by now.

And if you can't or won't curate your online experience, and if you're determined to hang around haters on Twitter and get drawn into hate threads there, don't import their garbage here. I and others on Tumblr are here for a reason. We're not on Twitter for a reason.

Please read this post for more info.

As always with these things, solos are constantly claiming that turtle LED banners and headbands are forbidden and security will remove them. If you watch an event that long and see how many turtle banners and headbands survive through hours and hours of programming it becomes clear these claims are BS.

But these claims and rumors persist, and turtles are heavily targeted with misinformation and hate by solos who are trying to hurt us.

Here's some clear video evidence of how much BS it all is.

Now let's break it all down.

Clips 1 & 2

The first clip was circulating around Weibo and Twitter, with solos claiming it was footage of security removing a turtle banner.

Clip 2 is a close-up of what actually happened. It wasn't security removing the banner at all, it was a solo ripping the banner out of the turtle's hands. And this is just typical of motos, seriously. Making false claims that appear to make turtles look bad, when the facts instead show bad moto behavior.

Clips 3 & 4

Solos seem to love this fiction that turtle banners are forbidden and will be removed by security. In reality, security removes obnoxious banners that are obstructing people's views of the event - regardless of their color. It has nothing to do with turtles specifically.

In the 3rd clip you can see there is a turtle banner and a moto banner. Security ignores the turtle banner - which was held at a modest height - and makes the moto lower her banner, which was held above her head and obstructing the view for those behind her. (And if you look closely, it looks like the moto might have been leaning forward with her banner trying to block the turtle banner and security stopped her.)

In the 4th clip you can clearly see green and red WangXiao headbands and yellow turtle colors on display, but security removes the moto banner that is too large and being held too high.

Just a reminder to all of us to block and ignore antis who are trying to attack and harm us. Realize their words are aimed to hurt you, and they only reflect their own ideas and interpretations - much of which is based in hatred toward us.

Be wary of all claims, but especially those of antis.