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Related: Gacha Games and the Korean gender war - Moon Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Im4YAMWK74
It's a pretty interesting dive into a bit of Korean history and how their extremely conservative culture, plus a bunch of equivalent 4channers, made a stupid lie become "reality". Also a bit on how/why they are culturally accepting of people spending money in p2w games
part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woB0eecbf6A