THE FUSE

Stella Sora, a new gacha game from Yostar, the developer behind games like Arknights, Blue Archives, and Heaven Burns Red, only launched a month ago and is already apologizing for its first big controversy. No, it’s not about microtransactions or a bad character design, as often happens with gacha games. Instead, it’s because a character allegedly made an infamous penis-pinching gesture called “crab hand.” While the pinch gesture has been used to signal a small size or portion of something forever, it’s also been used in the Korean feminist movement Megalia to insinuate someone has a small dick. Some men are apparently taking two fingers close together as a personal attack whenever they see it, including in video games.