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- 13 Gru 2022
Well there are three Mihoyo founders, and the guy went in intending to kill two, Liu Wei and Cai Haoyu. Liu Wei is the public face of the company. Cao owns the most shares, but in 2023 he went to Silicon Valley to found his AI R&D company, which is what he has been focused on since. All three founders are unmarried the last time I checked, so it's not clear what would happen to their shares if they both dropped at the same time, leaving Luo Yuhao as the sole owner left. We know the least about Luo Yuhao. We don't know enough about how much each person is involved in Mihoyo's day to day operations, so it's hard to say how Mihoyo's internal operations would have been impacted. From an outside perspective, Liu dying would definitely impact Mihoyo's PR ability unless one of the other two stepped up.
A Chinese CEO getting killed because his company released an advertisement video showing an anime character in a bunnygirl outfit would probably chill the ACG (anime, comics, games) scene in China. The primary take away would be that these ACG fans are radically unstable and that you should not touch them with a ten foot pole. I'd imagine that the companies would become much more conservative whenever they release anything to the public. Others would be deterred from even attempting to get into that industry in the first place, like the wave of startups after Genshin's release. This incident happened half a year after Genshin's release so maybe some of those projects just never get greenlit.
Bigger issue would probably be the news media lurching on this, like how otaku in Japan were heavily stigmatized after the sarin gas attack. Might be a useful talking point to deflect people's attentions away from the government.
Hard to tell what the government would actually do. Shortly after Genshin's release, the government showcased a powerpoint slide with Venti on it saying "don't make effeminate men" and there was a brief censorship scare, but nothing seems to have really come of it, and now new Genshin characters are just as sexualized as before. Off of the top of my head, the instance I can think of where Chinese nerds got arrested was the wave of yuri/yaoi authors who got arrested, which intimidated others to stop writing/drawing that content.
China has a very powerful internet censorship apparatus. When the recent wave of "revenge against society" attacks happened, such as the guy drove a car through a crowd of people and killed 30, footage of it was very quickly scrubbed from the Chinese websites and social media. They have control over internet forums like NGA and can scrub wrongthink and identify posters very quickly. So stuff doesn't spread that the CCP does not want. Probably not a lot of people jumping through all of the effort to download a VPN and go to hidden forums, though with China having 4.5x the amount people as the US then who knows. There might be a lot.
A Chinese CEO getting killed because his company released an advertisement video showing an anime character in a bunnygirl outfit would probably chill the ACG (anime, comics, games) scene in China. The primary take away would be that these ACG fans are radically unstable and that you should not touch them with a ten foot pole. I'd imagine that the companies would become much more conservative whenever they release anything to the public. Others would be deterred from even attempting to get into that industry in the first place, like the wave of startups after Genshin's release. This incident happened half a year after Genshin's release so maybe some of those projects just never get greenlit.
Bigger issue would probably be the news media lurching on this, like how otaku in Japan were heavily stigmatized after the sarin gas attack. Might be a useful talking point to deflect people's attentions away from the government.
Hard to tell what the government would actually do. Shortly after Genshin's release, the government showcased a powerpoint slide with Venti on it saying "don't make effeminate men" and there was a brief censorship scare, but nothing seems to have really come of it, and now new Genshin characters are just as sexualized as before. Off of the top of my head, the instance I can think of where Chinese nerds got arrested was the wave of yuri/yaoi authors who got arrested, which intimidated others to stop writing/drawing that content.
China has a very powerful internet censorship apparatus. When the recent wave of "revenge against society" attacks happened, such as the guy drove a car through a crowd of people and killed 30, footage of it was very quickly scrubbed from the Chinese websites and social media. They have control over internet forums like NGA and can scrub wrongthink and identify posters very quickly. So stuff doesn't spread that the CCP does not want. Probably not a lot of people jumping through all of the effort to download a VPN and go to hidden forums, though with China having 4.5x the amount people as the US then who knows. There might be a lot.