Reminder that after 9:00AM PDT/10:00AM MDT/11:00AM CDT/12:00PM EDT on July 6th, do NOT post on RedNote or Weibo.

I repeat, DO NOT POST ON ANY CHINESE MEDIA APPS ON JULY 6TH.

At those times, it will be 12:00AM on July 7th in Beijing. July 7th is a sensitive, historical day for China. The CN fans have respectfully asked us to avoid posting on CN apps.

You are still free to post on Instagram, X, Facebook, and other American-owned media apps. For the good of the protest, please be respectful of this.

Reminder that after 9:00AM PDT/10:00AM MDT/11:00AM CDT/12:00PM EDT on July 6th, do NOT post on RedNote or Weibo.

I repeat, DO NOT POST ON ANY CHINESE MEDIA APPS ON JULY 6TH.

At those times, it will be 12:00AM on July 7th in Beijing. July 7th is a sensitive, historical day for China. The CN fans have respectfully asked us to avoid posting on CN apps.

You are still free to post on Instagram, X, Facebook, and other American-owned media apps. For the good of the protest, please be respectful of this.

Midday Report 7/5/2026

Good noon friends! I don't have much to report as of right now, but here are a couple updates:

As of 11:00 AM CDT:

LADS following count: Instagram 917k, X 656.6k, TikTok 891k, YouTube 325k

Petitions: 225.8k and 92.2k

Valko is getting SO much love at AX2026! Here's a video posted to X.

CN fans are getting some interesting responses to their messages to Infold. They aren't copy-and-paste anymore—they're responding with emojis? Post here.

A lot of people on X seem to be having similar dreams about Valko coming back. It's obvious not concrete evidence or anything, but a woman's intuition is no joke!

Players have noticed the lily of the valley painting in the desk decorating. It's been there since the beginning. FYI—Valko's flower is the lily of the valley.

We're still trending on X! 6 days straight! And we've reached over 2.5 million posts.

It's easier to track the popularity on X, but there are 10k posts on Instagram under #bringvalko back, and #bringbackvalko is a trending search on TikTok.

Here's a list of all the outlets that have reported on the protest: GosuGamers, Polygon, IGN, Aftermath.site, Kotaku, TheGamer, GameSpot, Pocket Gamer.biz, Dexerto. Here's the post with the article links.

Important!

DO NOT interact with CN players on RedNote or Weibo. They are trying to use sinophobia as a new tactic. If you post on either site, do so respectfully and kindly. Do not respond to hateful comments.

DO NOT post on RedNote or Weibo on July 7th. Please ensure that you're paying attention to the time zone difference. July 7th is a historically important day in China. In 1937, it marks the date that Chinese troops clashed outside Beijing, triggering the Second Sino-Japanese War and the full-scale Japanese invasion of China.

If you are not currently boycotting, remember that July 9th is Blackout Day. If nothing else, DO NOT LOG IN on July 9th.

CN players' protest is different than ours. They need to raise the rating in their app stores, and we need to continue to lower ours. Both sides need to emphasize that LADS helps international players appreciate Chinese culture.

Remember!

DO NOT LOG IN! We're still trying to affect their DAU metric.

Don't expect a statement from Infold until Wednesday. With Anime Expo this weekend, and a historical day in China on the 7th, it's unlikely they will say anything about the situation until then.

Keep fighting! Antis worked for seven days to get Valko's release cancelled. We have to continue to make noise in order to be louder than them. Many companies will wait out protests for a few days to see if they fizzle out.

Don't lose hope! We're making a HUGE impact!

Please remember that this boycott is not just about Valko. The CN fans deserve an apology for the 731 incident, global fans deserve recognition, we need more MC customization options for darker skin tones—there are a lot of issues involved.

Take care of yourselves. Take breaks, eat, drink water, and get plenty of rest. We're in this together <3

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Remember; nothings been confirmed yet!! No news rn is good news because it means infold is trying to make a consice statement and actually handle this with the gravity it deserves

tiny LI comfort audio concept I can’t stop thinking about:

you come home overstimulated and exhausted, and he notices before you even say anything.

not dramatic. not a huge plot. just him lowering his voice, guiding you to sit down, telling you to breathe with him, maybe teasing you gently for pretending you’re fine, then getting softer when he realizes you really needed comfort☺️

the kind of scene where nothing “big” happens but somehow you feel held the whole time.

I would fold instantly tbh 😭

Just no. Don't do this. Don't support this. No VA/artist/actor has consented to having their voice, art, face used by LLMs and this is just wrong on many levels.

There's no respectful, transparent way to do this when no LLM model is transparent in itself. People have pointed it out and you have blocked them. That shows this isn't about being respectful. It's about you getting your instant gratification.

And to those who are supporting this? You're as much a part of the problem as OP is.

Doing this is also insulting to people who painstakingly snip audio lines of LIs from the game and create content by using those snippets in different contexts.

We lost an entire section of the MAIN STORY.

The livestream literally told us Valko's release was going to reveal more about the Aethercore—one of the biggest mysteries in Love and Deepspace and something that's been central to the plot from the very beginning.

So now what?

You think they can just delete him and nothing changes?

Do people genuinely think you can rip out an entire story arc without consequences?

Everything that was supposed to be revealed through Valko now has to be rewritten, redistributed, or outright cut. The main story is going to have to be retconned. Future updates are going to have to be reworked. Characters may have to be rewritten just to fill the gap he leaves.

If you're celebrating this because you "won," I sincerely hope you understand what you've actually cheered for.