Gacha Life: World's Most Disturbing Kid's Game
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In this documentary we talk about the toxic side of the online video game, Gacha Life. This innocent looking kid's game is home to some questionable people. Welcome to the disturbing world of Gacha Life.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Gacha Life
1:22 - The Father of Gacha Life
4:13 - Gacha's Soulless Content Farms
7:49 - The Disgusting Realm of Gacha Heat
10:42 - # SaveTheGachaCommunity
13:17 - A Hazard to Kids
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I will not.
Im
*homophobic*
@@kiroden358 👍
Maybe you should talk about the discussing truth of furry p*rn it's bad.
Ok
The amount of times I've officially reported Gacha Heat to TH-cam is crazy. They won't listen and it's tiring. The game itself is extremely child friendly but there are some members of the community that are sick and make weird content. It's so easy to ban the search term 'heat' yet they won't do anything about it...
Im glad u try to help loved ur gacha/Minecraft/Roblox videos when I was younger 🩷🩷
Hi yammy :D I absolutely love your videos and I'm glad you tried to report these disgusting videos... they really bring shame to the community...
Yammy :D
YAMMY!?
Fax Yammy Fax!
A lot of the community is child friendly... and yet somehow gacha heat is always the first thing you’ll find
I swear, there are so many talented and nice people in the community. But every community/fandom has bad people
The bad things outnumber the good, so I wouldn't say there are "alot" that are child friendly, at least by proportion. Giving a child gacha is like leaving them in the kitchen, they might grab a yogurt from the fridge or end up drinking detergent
Even you will find people who want to runin someone's life and make lies when that victim have evidence yes I've been their
Legitimately gacha Community is a horrible community of the Internet
@@----S.If you want semi-quality content and non-lewd content, you should probably look at the reaction content. And while some reactions that these videos contain are mediocre, there is a lot of talent there. Not everything is bad and full of crap.
Yeah the community is absolutely amazing with talented people that are child friendly. except the children are not at least some of them tho some kids just play the game for fun
as a person in the gacha community i HATE how people took such a good game and made it violent and inappropriate its disgusting
Same
That is true.
As an ex-member of the gacha community, it's crazy
Same
it's not a good game. Just gonna put that out there. I can hardly call it a game, there isn't any gameplay at all. It's more like a crappy piece of mobile software
Bro when you said Amino my heart sunk, that platform is a groomer's paradise. I've been on the internet basically unrestricted for almost 15 years now so I've gotten a lot of creepy messages over the years but some Amino communities definitely had the most and the weirdest ones I've ever gotten
NO BC ACTUALLY!
tw, mention of grooming
i also had basically unrestricted internet for YEARS, and Amino was one of those awful apps i have had. there definitely were positive and fun times, but, it’s definitely more memorable as a, well, groomer heaven. ofc, at the time, with me being probably around 10-12, i never noticed i was being possibly groomed. mind you, i wasn’t completely oblivious of dangers of the internet, but i definitely was oblivious.
looking back, it’s… terrifying. especially since they, well, in my experience, “date” you and yk, being a stupid lonely kid, who may or may not be having family issues at those moments, (alongside wanting to either look cool/older) want someone close, and/or a relationship. we would always do shit like dirty rps too, and youngish kids play into it bc it’s,, “fun”.
tldr: Amino was one of the shittiest(and honestly , scariest) places/apps i’ve ever been on. It’s horrible. 10\10 NOT recommended
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Yeah like not me but I have heard that amino was full of 18+ fetish crap or the P three do's wanting to see the kids. Which is why I never want to use that app.
No child under 16 should ever have unrestricted internet access
@@Mike-oxlong1029 unless it’s Roblox bc unlike pretty much everywhere else Roblox doesn’t let you have fun when you have restrictions
Originally, Gacha was supposed to be for older kids like teens, but after the creator, Luni, saw the inappropriate things people were making, he removed some assets to prevent it. Sadly it wasn’t enough. It’s the bad side of the community that’s bad, not the game itself
Yeah, same man
guys let's make this person the top comment so that he can see this and talk abt this.
What of the loot boxes?
unfortunately, there are some gacha alternatives but they look like modded gacha for more accessories and (of course) some bad stuff bypassed into it. i only use the vanilla ones and kept it in the safe zone, while i prevent any unsafe content.
it's sad that because of this I think gacha life is cringe
Honestly the app itself is very family friendly and can strengthen kid’s creativity, editing and storytelling. The community is just… a bad product of the internet I guess. I used to love gacha life until I watched more and more gacha life videos. A lot of them were funny and entertaining to watch! But the more I saw the weird and inappropriate videos I got more deterred from the app. It’s too bad though, the app was fun to use.
i agree. i used to like it. now the only time i even see those is when checking what my little brother is watching.
I use Gacha for rough character designs, and I wish people could just be normal about this, especially sense Gacha Heat is made primarily by minors.
i agree with this as well. i sometimes use gacha to make characters and then draw them. and yes heat is made by minors. dumb ones to be exact
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the same story with me
brooo watching a video that's just talking about your childhood as a whole feels so weird
Luni tried his best to stop it by removing skin colors and all the Inappropriate stuff like the poses and ect but most of the community is kid friendly blurring out the blood in some of the trends
As someone in the gacha community I can already hear heat and some terrible creators being mentioned in this
*cough* HATSUMI ROU-
@@YourOverprotectiveGachaBflen.. total- (*vomitingsounds.mp3 here*)
Ehem *cough* Len and Hatsumi
*cough* Nehama Rahman
*cough*I don't know any creators but I want this chain to keep going*cough*
It's not a disturbing game, it's a normal game with a disturbing community
Commenting this shows you didnt even watch the video entirely, did you not see the part where they showed the inappropriate poses, items and references?? The game literally included a reference to a CP anime?? Be for real .
@@hautecoutures I use Gacha Life for making characters. I see none of the poses as inappropriate. It's just people finding ways to use normal poses in inappropriate ways. And about the CP poses, those aren't extremely inappropriate. And if you somehow find them to be, just note that the app says there is 13+ content, so the only people who are exposed to it are people who are okay with it and people who were warned
@@smartestgirl If you aren't gonna read the entire reply, don't bother continuing the conversation. Same goes if you're just gonna answer some weird shit just because or whatever. If you're gonna reply to me, read the entire reply before even writing anything.
If "Twerk" and "Air Thrust 1 / 2" isn't inappropriate then what the hell is?? It doesn't have to say straight up sex poses for it to be classified as inappropriate.
You misunderstood what I said. The interactive part of the game where it makes you talk to different characters and interact with them has a reference to an anime where it depicts a grown man grooming and having intercourse with a prepubescent child. If you don't think that's inappropriate I'd easily assume you were born yesterday.
As one of the first clips from Mutahar showed even before the actual video essay started, the app is literally classified as 9+. Plus even if there is an age restriction there is NO way to ACTUALLY restrict kids as young as 5 or less from downloading and playing. You should know since there's an "epidemic" of literal children and babies installing apps like Tiktok or Discord nowadays. If you know your main demographic and 85-95% of your playerbase ranges from 0-12 years old, why would you include sexual content? If you didn't want that age range to be your demographic, why make the game so child-ish looking? The game is in a chibi style, bright shiny colors, a P2W mechanic, minigames included INSIDE the actual game.. It will make the demographic mostly be composed of children.
That last sentence is HORRENDOUS. Did you think before typing that? That's literally the same as saying that if you go to a man's house as a woman you are consenting to intercourse because you were warned.
Why are you so eager to defend someone who doesn't know you? Luni doesn't owe you anything. He won't pay you for defending him. You're reaching the same level of low by defending him.
He doesn't care and has not taken accountability for his actions in any moment. Closest he's been to doing anything was literally removing skintone colors from the clothing section and getting rid of a couple of poses. None of that matters at all cause day by day parents still complain about their children being exposed to inappropriate content and children still get affected by this. By removing colors from the clothing section you aren't doing anything, the adults partaking in it are still gonna find a way to surpass it by editing or anything they need to do. These grown people traumatize and taint children for money.
It also isn't of much help that he's literally working on a new game as we speak called Gacha Life 2, and it also doesn't help that he drew himself and some other guy having sex (specifically a threesome) with one of his characters which was stated to be a legal minor (15 years old) and THEN changed the character's age to 18 to avoid any more backlash. You don't have any reason to defend him. Again, he will not pay you for defending him, you're not a lawyer. You are just feeding into his ego and his actions.
I repeat, if you're gonna answer, read the entire reply.
@@hautecoutures1. *Note*
I just read your entire comment and watched the entire video.
2. *Poses*
One of the poses is part of the combat section and is depicting a tired person, and even though it looks like twerking, it isn't. From there, it can only be the fault of the Gacha player to change its meaning. And the air thrusts are combat. I never saw them in any different way besides battle poses until this video, which shows that it's up to the person playing to decide whether it's inappropriate or not. If you think about it, ANY pose could be shifted to be used inappropriately, so should they not have any poses at all? For instance, the pose at the top is just someone in normal battle stance. If you've seen fighting, that's the normal pose. I know what people are probably using that as, but that wasn't the intention.
3. *Expressions*
There are and were not any default expressions that looked as inappropriate as the example. The player made that by combining NORMAL things like blush, a banana, and a mouth with a tongue sticking out. The fact that these look normal without the others added to it shows that THEY ARE NORMAL, and it's the PLAYERS that are making them weird.
4. *Reference*
Many Disney, Pixar, etc. films have sexual references. They get away with it. Children don't notice, so it's not that bad. And they don't even warn viewers about it. That's much worse than this scenario, because there's only a small chance (no chance now that it's removed) to see it, and people have to check an agreement to accept the 13+ content.
5. *"Why are you so eager to defend someone who doesn't know you?"*
You're acting like I'm saying this to get credit or something. And I'm not defending HIM, I'm defending his GAME (what he drew is horrible, but that is not in the app). I'm defending because I've just used my brain to figure out that it's the community's fault, not his.
6. *"There is NO way to ACTUALLY restrict kids as young as 5 or less from downloading"*
That can be blamed on Google Play and the App Store, not the apps themselves.
@@hautecoutures Personally, I enjoy watching Gacha, but it’s difficult to share this with others as many people view it as cringe and inappropriate due to those part of the more disturbing side of the community. Many gachatubers post nice, funny and appropriate videos. Many of them are also creative, coming up with original content. Despite that, this community is being judged by its darker side. However, all communities have a dark side, and it isn’t right for people to ignore that in other more popular communities and then create a stereotype of the gacha community from the darker side. People who misuse certain features of the app are the reason why gacha is viewed as cringe/inappropriate.
1. Poses. There are some poses which can be misinterpreted as inappropriate positions. Such as the “twerking” pose. It was never meant for twerking, it’s purpose to just show a character bending forward with their hands on their knees. There is nothing wrong with this pose, only with the people who use it to depict other scenarios.
2. Facial expressions/features. The blush is used to show that a character is embarrassed/angry/in love/feeling hot/design choice. However, people will pair it with the mouth with a tongue sticking out to show something else. While there is nothing wrong with that expression(seriously, it can be used to show that someone is really hungry), the scenario in which the expression is usually used in is not.
3. Gacha Heat. Luni has taken measures to prevent people from creating more, but this doesn’t mean videos already created are gone. Nobody has control over the fact that those videos have been posted and viewed by many people. At this moment, there are probably people watching and reporting Gacha Heat. And about people editing so as to create more Gacha Heat, no one, including Luni, has control over that. Unless you’re saying that we can just barge into people’s houses and delete any edits they make to create Gacha Heat, it’s not really within our control. Also, the fact that people still click on Gacha Heat videos will likely encourage the creators to continue. If they’re able to gain views through making those videos, they won’t stop. Especially since that would just make them more popular. Currently, the best we can do is to continue reporting Gacha Heat creators and try to stop watching their videos.
4. The thing Luni drew. While I have not seen what Luni had drawn, this doesn’t change the fact that what he drew is horrible. However, I don’t understand why people make such a big deal out of this, when some of them probably draw/look at NSFW art of Muichiro Tokito from demon slayer, when he’s literally 14. No Gachatuber and gacha viewer are at fault. We do not control what Luni does and does not do. Although we are part of a community based on an app Luni created, that doesn’t mean we support everything he does, nor does it mean we are responsible for any of that.
5. Gachatubers. No Gachatuber is at fault for what other Gachatubers create. Like every community there is, the Gacha community is also not completely innocent. There have been Gachatubers who were reported for grooming, the creation of Gacha Heat, racism and other things. However, creating stereotypes based on those Gachatubers is completely unfair for the other good Gachatubers.
While there are many sides to the Gacha community, I hope that people will stop viewing it as inappropriate/cringey all because of those who decide to use Gacha Life that way. Many, many gachatubers have their own take on things, and many of them work hard to create videos for their viewers to enjoy. “The Music Freaks” is proof that the Gacha community isn’t all bad. Not only do many people enjoy watching it, it is an original idea by RosyClozy. Instead of focusing on the negative side of the Gacha community, take some time to look at the positive side. “There’s always 2 sides to a coin if you have the patience to see,” ~ Kathryn Budig.
On the behalf of the gacha community, I would like to say something. Not all of us are like this, most of us are good! There are multiple people who just make skits for fun, me being on of them. Your only looking at the 20% of the community, the bad part, but there is a big 80% that is not toxic! So don’t worry, we are not all bad :)
Weirdo.
"20%"
Gacha’s disgusting part of the community is something I wish I never knew. I was a fan back when gacha studio was released and I had found out about gacha heat. I didn’t know what it was at the time and discovering all of that had ruined my innocence.
Same honestly. Just start reporting the vids
As a child being in gacha back in 2018 I can say it can be a very powerful tool. It actually enhanced my love for story writing and art! Sadly every community has it's dark parts, especially Gacha Heat. The community is full of talented and kind people, but like every community, it has flaws.
Sometimes I wish TH-cam could ban those people ruining our community
@@Tactical_Nuke0my brother in christ that is a child
@@Shinobu_kochoooosame..
Same
ily@@Aventurine_is_my_pookie_bear
for any parents watching: PLEASE do not let you child search up gacha life/ gacha club content because a lot of people use it to make p*rn! If your kid is interested in these games, please keep an eye on what they watch so they don't get exposed to it!
also, can't wait to watch the video!
edit: yes, not everything in the community bad! just make sure you keep an eye on what your kid watches so they don't get exposed to the gross stuff!
This ^
there's so much disgusting shit about gacha and will scar some kids
@@TheanimationWorkstationtheres alot more of this shit then actual good stuff, thank fully it died down. From all i know, the only ppl making this stuff is trolls
Yes take there advice the gacha community post really inappropriate stuff so monitor them and what they search online to keep them safe
Yes there is shit but if you do search up Gacha you can find great channels aswell
There are many good creators in the community people just pays more attention to the toxic side of it too much its not even the majority of the community but a small part that are just attention seekers knowing even people outside of the community pays attention to them and uses it as a advantage to seek attention 💀
This existed back In Gen-Z. When I was like 11 used to be a huge hater of the Gacha stuff. The little girls roasted my ass in the comments 💀💀. I’m 15 now and I just find it genuinely weird. Nice vid
dang
If the girls are 5 year olds they are just addicted
We were fucking ruthless
@@bearbear105 u still a lil kid buddy
@@Xmd500 hence the WERE. I only use gacha for making my OCS in an easy way and rarely content. I'm 13.
As someone who grew up on Gacha I loved it so much while being inspired to animate and actually become an artist outside of the game and finding anime’s I now am obsessed with
The game itself isn’t bad,the commuinity is. Its part of the reason why some kids are exposed for early maturity.
Edit : why am i getting no notifcations that 700 ppl are liking it 😭✋
Edit 2 : OMG TYSM FOR 1K LIKES!
I know 😭
There’s really amazing creators. The sad part is that the heaters of gacha get more attention then the amazing animators, editors 😭. Why can’t anyone remember that there is other community with terrible stuff like the Fortnite or Roblox.
the game is bad, too
@@m8ak it's good as a dress up game for little kids. it's not good in the fact that some content is clearly sexualized, like the occupation section, where it says "master, pet, sadist, masochist." they also clearly stated there was a 15 year old succubus and luni was a coward so he changed it. he referenced boku no pico at one point. but if the kids don't pay attention to that and just use the dress up feature, then yeah, it's a good game.
@@m8akhonestly I’m not gonna blame the game
Ima have to blame the fandom for why it’s bad (the bad side of the community)
Oh so the game isn’t bad? Explain why the developer(s) added AIR THRUST AND TWERKING IN A SUPPOSEDLY CHILD'S GAME?
As someone who is a part of the community, i really appreciate the amount of care and research put into this video. Im glad that people still see the good side of the gacha community
same.
Agreed
Real.
I know right!! It’s so hard to find people who actually care.
@@Aj_The_Potato_Cat Ikr!?
As a member of the community ive seen many gacha creators with actually really nice content, it sad this is how most people see us
Tbh I really like how you talked about the theme! I usually find people who either act like all gacha is like this or people that justify gacha too much, but you found a pretty good middle ground imo.
I used to be in the gacha community around its golden ages (2018-2019) and its crazy to see what it has become.
It was still around it just wasn't as popular there was still toxicity and gacha heat we all just ignored it then
sameee 😭
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Like when I see people liking Roblox even though it has some dark history like gacha life, And people just forget those things and go to the positive side of Roblox.
But its not the same for gacha life.
it was always like that tho, lol
i played and liked gacha for a bit knowing i was younger then, but like it quickly got cringe n all that lol, i have a vastly different taste in games now
As a kid I loved the gacha community, it was a place that I could express myself and create fun and interesting stories. It really sucks for this fun game to twisted into something dangerous.
how is it dangerous it cant kill us
@@kwmccabeDangerous in a different way.
@@kwmccabeI know your joking 💀
@@DoffysRightHandMan45it ain’t dangerous at all, people make their own decisions
@@ILoveObjectShows77 you’re only looking at the 1%, that ISN’T dangerous, if it was, then why is p0rnhub allowed and not taken down, that’s still dangerous? You must think negatively on most things, huh? The original game IS innocent, ya’ll take shit out of context because ya’ll wanna be mad at something since ya’ll don’t have jobs or anything to do in your spare time, ya’ll insecure as if you do this because of that 😹😹
As someone who was on the gacha community in 2018-2022 it’s not everyone that makes gacha heat, I knew so many people that actually make good gacha life content but there’s still gacha heat creators that make the the community look bad, its sad to see what the community has come to
Why can't people leave the kids apps to the kids? Seriously, why do there always have to be people targeting literally everything out there instead of leaving those things alone that are meant for children? I'm not saying being a creep and demanding inappropriate photos for joining a group, or monetizing everything is good, but at least limit it to doing it to adults who understand what they're dealing with and can defend themselves. Let children grow up peacefully instead of scarring them and practically stealing part of their childhood. I'm not trying to defend such behavior in any way but I know there will always be people out there who do that stuff so I'm saying at least be considerate enough to limit those things to adult people, instead of targeting innocent children.
I used to like gacha when i was young but as i got older i realized how messed up the community actually is 😭
Yep same
That is why I quitted watching gacha videos or playing the game (I quit the game because I got creeped by creepy pasta videos)
I don't want to see them
*I don't want to see my nightmares again*
It all went down when my childhood friend at a prayer group showed me gachaverse and their “skits”.
I used to love Gacha, but now it’s pure chaos to me
Sad thing is I still like it but don’t rlly watch it and I’ve tried to be away from it..
Me too. I felt boring too so I just stopped.
Luni (the creator) is a really nice and family friendly person, and the game is very family friendly too. It's just the community, that was rotten by the oversexualisation of every single thing, even children, that ruined the game. I sometimes watch gacha videos, and often enough they are done well.
The good thing about the community, is that a lot of the creators are reporting, and exposing the ones that are problematic. I hope that the community gets better, and that the bad creators actually get banned in every way possible.
Edit: Look through the replies, to learn that I was wrong!
Man... The bad community make all communities bad and the game too
yo u single?
@@Tactical_Nuke0 no.
damn srry@@nanaminaokoshi7077
@@Tactical_Nuke0🤨📸
That's interesting, I'm from Brazil and we have that news thing here called "Balanço Geral" mentioned in the video. It mostly shows up either robberies, murder and such, so I didn't know it talked about Gacha once.
WOw your voice is so amazing it help me when I study to focus more.
ALSO thank you for bringing light to the promblem on teh intrenet and you share a point of view taht is well i cann't really descibe it but it make me feel luike I am listening to news reporter taht have spent years uncovering truth and delevring them in away were he is not trying to spread a ideolgy but the truth
honestly good luck on your journey
also i have started watching the mix thing and it feel like you are slowly guiding people through the rabbit hole and not just giving a schovck value but slowly and patiently
so far your viedio have been adiccted
As a gacha creator myself, I honestly try my HARDEST to not come across any inappropriate videos, and I never do. I really hate that people have used the app to make disgusting content and I hope that sometime soon, it can be stopped.
Yea good luck man cuz they keep getting in my reccomendeds for like no reason 😭😭
They literally won't stop. It's so annoying. It's just so abominable the way people are just so dirty and abominable enough to have the guts to make these kinds of content. Now I'm getting hated irl because I still watch gacha (the good ones).
gacha heat is hell
It's so hard to stay away from that gross stuff. ALSO I LOVE UR PFP
@@YourOverprotectiveGachaBfomg same and I don't even watch these videos yet they appear, I watch the animations and art speedpaints
As someone who's been in the community since 2017, it's a shame that there's still that one side of the community. I just hope the Gacha community will strive to be a better one in the future and won't contain such explicit content anymore.
I feel so bad for Luni , he just wanted to make fun game suitable for all ages, but ended up with a sick-minded community.
PS I Know not everyone in the community is bad.
@@SCIENCE90003 Luni also made updates as a good attempt to stop the Heaters, but they always found mods to keep their mean streak going.
They went as far as creating a Heater game! I saw those ads!
It all started in 2020/2021 when Toxic TikTokers were leaking stuff from r/Gachalifecringe. That Reddit was there for a while, but it was mostly restricted to Reddit until the TikTokers leaked it out and this is how this madness started.
@@SCIENCE90003Yeah,Despite All These Efforts To Stop Gacha Heat(Like removing Inappropriate Clothes,Removing The skin Colour Options In Clothes ,etc.)
Sick Freaks Still Make disgusting Content.
The NSFW Part is Not The Only Problem.
Tracing,Death Threats,Stealing,Grooming,Disturbing Trends,etc. Are a Bigger Problem Then The Gacha Heat Problem
I’ve Been In The Gacha Community Since 2018 And It’s Sad To See How This is Turning Out.
If You want To Make Lore Videos,do That,But Please Remember The COPPA rules and TW’s.
Overall,The Gacha Community Is Still Full Of Underrated Amazing Content Creators,It Just Needs To Fix It’s Problems.
Good news for you,most gacha heat is gone I think!
@@Lily_lol574 kk
Yes, this video is good, when I play gacha I am crazy about it. I don't play Gacha anymore.
And when I was looking at the report on the play store, he said "Remember what you're playing, people, if you have children, don't let them play it because it will cause brain cancer"
Ngl that sponser was clean fr
As a GachaTuber the way you handled this situation is amazing, you didn't act like, "the whole community is a peice of shit and cringe af" like I see a *LOT* of people do honestly. Instead you handled it very well. It is very scary what the communtity has turned into. I try to make my videos for all audiences, from my comments (which I have very little of) a lot of my audience is children
once again,
*It is very scary what the communtity has turned into*
I agree. But there is nothing wrong with the game just the videos... It's not fun for kids anymore..
😢
YASS right??? Niiice
@@Luna_Moon_Is_Dumb Yeah also the messed up things that were also being made but not mentioned like i saw in my recommended the old version of gacha yknow titled something with the word str*pper two years ago i never scrolled down away so fast
I’m glad he understands not all of us are bad and it’s just the bad content.
Honestly, Luni shouldn’t have updated gacha life to stop heat.
It gave those people what they want.
Attention.
There was heat back in the days of gacha studio but know one cared so we didn’t even know.
Honestly I always feel so bad for the talented gacha creators who just continue to become overshadowed by the bad side of it.
in fact, yes. like my sister. she's a pretty good gachatuber, but honestly she gets some hate despite that. people think gachatubers dont deserve as much subscribers. as these videso are "only screenshots", or whatever we make they just find it cringe
As a gacha creator, you don’t know how many videos I see on a *lot* of days saying gacha is cringe or bad or disgusting, things like that
@@MasonTheFurryCatNot like you can animate it without that
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I mean yes you can animate on alot of things @@izzybizzy4398
I'm so grateful that when I discovered gacha life, I made silly videos and it took me a long time to actually research videos of it, because I discovered the game because of friends who recommended it to me, and I thought that the game wasn't that well known and that there wouldn't be many videos of it.
Im honestly so sorry about the gacha community as a part of the gacha community 😭🫶
Your incoherent sins have far surpassed the honor of absolution. Now, you must be prosecuted for the crimes against innocence.
@@BrocomeON.NOW. wait did I do something bad- I don't get it sorry- 😭
@STORMZ4LIFE I still don't understand that-? Is it supposed to be an insult??
@@LostKittyzbox I think so
As a person who's in the gacha community I'm actually really excited to watch this video.
Same tbh
I used to be. But it was too toxic
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Me too!
@@Kyuri_gachz same but the realized a lot of the stuff people were posting were really inappropriate and as you said very toxic so I left
I've been playing gacha since 2017. The game itself is family friendly and it does actual help develop creativity. At first the community was extremely kind and welcoming but as time passed, the community slowly became rude, insensitive and ignorant. I left the community myself because it just got filled with so many people that only look for drama, cause drama, make inappropriate content, or just constantly spam videos as if they have no lives. It honestly hurts to see the downfall of the game due to such people, since there were a lot of talented artists/animators within the community, and im sure there still are but majority of the community just sucks now.
I feel like the gacha community has toned down, for me most of the gacha content is quality and kid friendly, like Mika rou and Sasha art. Hopefully the community can block out so much toxic content by getting better content popular.
ive got a story i hope you could use, when youtube kids was brand new, i was exposed to a video that was heavily disturbing called simply "neighbor steals my stuff!" and it truamatized me, it was an edited version of hello neighbor, the neighbor went inside, [the neighbor was styled like the bully from baldis basics] stole something while talking with a creepy tts voice, i had nightmares for weeks and when i reported it, it never left.
As a gachatuber who’s been in the community for years, it’s genuinely sickening how many TikTok complication gachatubers sneak heat videos into their content, or just use heat as thumbnails in general
I'm someone who has been part of this community for about 5 years now. I must say that I appreciate you looking into both sides of the community instead of grouping us together with all the bad people.
ya even tho i dont understand anything he said😅
me too! i’ve been in the community for the same amount of time and i completely agree.
Most people won't see this, but this logical fallacy of grouping everyone with the bad people is everywhere. Including furries, LGBTQ, you name it. I'm not any of these, but I recently discovered the rare, chill side of these controversial communities, and it really makes a fresh, deep breath to think about things from the innocents' perspective.
bro this is Christian Perspective[if u dont believe in God just ignore this part but] ony God and Jesus are innocent because They've never sinned but we have and if ur atheist or a dif religion i wanna hear what u think of Christians because i'd like to learn more abt other religions@@PurePain_1
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The community isnt all bad! It's the weird kids that make the things that give the community a bad rep!
what, how????@@Sekaiiiide
wha
instead of saying kids you could say people because not all kids do it teenagers, adults ect. also do things like this
i overall meant minors since they mostly make them
@@Bwuniez.
stfu gacha is cringe and the whole community is awful
in a lot of these videos (also talking about the elsagate thing) it makes me REALLY mad that kids are involved/ targeted. with all the disturbing stuff online and illegal activities its just another level of repulsive. kids should always be off limits 😡 and this coming from a person who doesnt really like kids but still its just one of the most repulsive things.
That's such a disappointment to see a friendly game which many of us used to make mini movies and adventure movies and flex it on our friends is now consumed by some people making inappropriate content...not just that but recently i noticed the whole gacha life video like 70% of them go around about 3 things "cheating, killing and drama" which made the fans creativity fade away.
Finally, I've been bothered with this community since who knows when, the hideous acts that the kids are getting exposed to are horrific, glad to see you cover it
As a kid making gacha videos. Don't worry i don't make gacha heat and i don't watch it i think it's disgusting! And you'll probably agree with that, that side of the community is just horrible. I think for younger kids than me parents should keep an eye on what they're watching and making on the app. Just to make sure kids don't see something they're not supposed to see. I'm aware that,that side of the gacha community exists i just stay out of it. But i'm also glad Visual venture has is covering this.
I once loved the community and the game..
But I gotten away from them.. I escaped my nightmare,never touched then again.. And.. I know there are still good people out there using the app correctly.. Not for horrible things
It has gotten out of control. I'm only staying in the community because I know some good content creators like "RosyClozy", "Beowulf", etc. One part of the community that is seen more by outsiders is the inappropriate side, and that is completely reasonable, the only bad side about that is the more attention they receive = the more they do it. Most, heck, almost all of the people that put inappropriate content in their gacha skits are kids under 13 years of age. Yet they like writing "13+" or "18+" in their videos to get attention. I honestly feel bad for them.
By the way, the people that hate gacha h3at and stuff the most is literally the other side of the community. The effort people put into their works is overshadowed by the inappropriate videos some kids make. And it's very sad that these are KIDS making those type of content. Of course it would be messed up if a grown adult did it- obviously- but this is a different kind of messed up.
@furrietgdmobileplayer3672 I did to from a young age, even back then there was some gacha heat but it went unnoticed
@@crxcketz Yeah i agree with you with all my heart. I stay in the community cause i want to make content of my own and i don't want the gacha community to be seen as something horrible. But alot of people already think that wich is just sad if you tell the wrong person that you make gacha content they're gonna think"I didn't realise i was talking to a disgusting creep." Alot of people think that outside of the community. And it makes me want to be careful to who i tell i'm a Gachatuber cause i'm afraid of getting bullied and being called a "cringe gacha kid" that's the last thing i want to be seen as from others. Even tho i'm not cringe(or atleast i'm trying to not be) some people will still view me the same way. But the people i did tell i'm a Gachatuber were really supportive especially my best friend she is excited for new videos for like weeks all she wanted to talk about was my channel even tho i had nothing new she would still wanna talk about it. Wich i loved i didn't think my friends and family would be this supportive of me. But i appreciate it. But the things some people do are really not okay i think gacha heat wouldn't exist if those kids had more responsible parents that kept an eye on what their kids are doing. They just leave a kid to do what they want and they make disgusting things and they think it's okay to make them cause their parents never have told them either if it's okay ir it isn't so they just think it's okay cause they're praents don't tell them no. But i hope me and you and other people in the gacha community can still enjoy it while it has not become completely toxic and gross. Have a good day or night in the gacha community bud!
Although the drama in this community is still active, it is yet not as inappropriate as before. I’m glad that our community is growing and choosing other trends, whether it be tiring or not. Thank you for touching up on this.
The Heaters all started in 2020/2021 from Toxic TikTokers leaking stuff from r/Gachalifecringe (that was apparently there for a while, but it stayed on Reddit until the TikTokers leaked it)
The heaters are mostly gone now, there are reports that they made their own Heater Game and mods.
@@iceresistanceyep on the newly released “Gacha life 2” you get adds for a mod called “Gacha heat mod”
It’s messed up.
That ad input was clean af
As someone who loved Gacha Life as a kid and still plays it, I don’t know how these kids find Gacha Heat and watch it. Honestly, it’s on the parents, not the app.
honestly, I dont think its the parents fault at that point. They probably dont even know what gacha heat is. I dont think its the apps fault as well. Its more of youtube and the community itself.
@@matmatfr_ it’s not the apps fault, I just think in general, not just gacha heat, a parent should be more careful when giving a child full internet access to an infinite amount of videos.
I feel like gacha heat will be mentioned here cuz some kids and some creeps were so unhinged, Luni had to remove skin tones from the clothing color section just because of that.
Rip for luni
With the new rise of chibimation and Gacha life 2, people will stop with this 😭
@@7izzinaI’m pretty sure gacha life 2 been out of the picture since 2019. gacha life 2 WAS gonna be a thing, but it quickly became gacha club instead
@@K_rmxxa na Gacha Life 2 is coming. look it up
@@K_rmxxaactually, there have been recent news from lunime about gacha life 2 coming out around october of this year
This game is the reason that I'm studying art this days. I really liked making gacha videos when I was a kid, and some years ago I was trying to help the community.
It's really sad how much worse this got now, since It this game for me is really important for me and almost every kid that loved and discovered how cool is draw, animate or editing..
Yo literally me
I love editing but I dont post
Gacha is what inspired me to draw. used to copy their eyes all the time (they were rlly ugly when I drew them) Thanks gacha!
Same here
Just want to say that all not all Gacha tubers are bad. It’s just a small part of the community. They’re just some of the more vocal and loud people of the community which make it seem like it’s worse than it actually is. 😅 there’s also multiple apps than just Gacha life. Most commonly used is Gacha life Gacha Club, and Gacha Life 2. 😊
The worst thing about this is that not even the good side of the Gacha community is safe. It's not inappropriate or anything, but the constant Drama that circulates throughout the community is impossible to avoid and it's honestly just tiring. People constantly calling others out, sometimes even with fake allegations. People tracing others worse, copying or even stealing videos and not giving credit and so on. I honestly wish that the drama would just stop. Even Flotendy, a well known Gacha ranter who often sorts other drama out responsibly and calmly and Mika you a creator who before, has been a seemingly peaceful and well-known Gachatuber are now arguing with each other which has caused drama. I wish we could all just get along with each other.
I’m glad you addressed the situation about how other Gachatubers actually put work into their video ideas like doing art and animating. And I hate how that gets so over stormed by Gacha heat. But I am just so glad that you addressed the situation because unlike other TH-camrs, who have done video ideas, like this, in the past, they have not addressed that not everyone in the Gacha community is bad. Thank you you are truly understanding.
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Like when I see people liking Roblox even though it has some dark history like gacha life, And people just forget those things and go to the positive side of Roblox.
But its not the same for gacha life.
@@TheBestIkun Real facts
The game is actually really creative, like I'd love to play and make a fantasy version of me ir something but I can't tell anyone or I'll be seen as wierd
Only 5% of the community is decent
As a member of the Gacha community, this thing was saddening. It sucks that the community was portrayed as all bad, when there are prominent and good members of the community. Unfortunately, everything you said and explained is what caused the community to be looked like it is today. I'm not saying it's a bad video, far from it. It's a great video. It's just that it's a tragic story.
Heat has been mostly wiped from YT, they are still doing it, but to a smaller scale.
It's mostly down to TikTokers, and reports of this on DA.
@@iceresistance agreed, but now there’s something much more worse and horrible. Groomers.
@@ImightraplikeanenglishchapMost of the heaters were like this as well.
Most of them, when caught and exposed, are doomed.
Biggest problem now? Tracers
@@iceresistance yeah ATLEAST the grooming era of gacha is kinda over? But yeah tracers now are the problem
@@ImightraplikeanenglishchapI didn't know that era existed, but it was likely very nasty...
Tracers are easy to catch in the act
I have been in the gacha community for many years, ever since gacha studio was slowly getting popular and i joined in, ive always been on the good side of the community and always get to see so many talented and amazing gachatubers, its sad that i had to watch the community crumble...but im hoping this year those disgusting and awful videos of gacha would be buried deep in the community.
The "The internet gives us access to everyone, but it also gives everyone access to us." The quote was so good, it could probably be the quote i live by now
i personally really loved gacha life as a kid, that actually where i learned english! but ive been also exposed to the not so good side of gacha content, looking back now im kinda disgusted at myself for thinking they were suitable for me, watching them everyday. I really hope parents these days get educated on these problems, its growing and spreading, and more kids are being targeted.
I can relate
I don’t even watch Gacha videos anymore I just make videos that I want
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Real, I cant belive I use to like that sh!t when i was only like 9 or 11- Thank god ive changed. 🙏🙏🙏
I love the fact he actually explained the whole situation to make both the Gacha players and the people who don't play gacha understands about what's really is the problem within the community and how Luni can't really control it
Because at the end of the day, Luni doesn't control anyone. It's the people who decide to do this kind of stuff and the one who is ruining an innocent game for kids, just like roblox!
This is one of my favorite TH-camrs!!!
I’m glad that this person knows that it’s not always heat, or it’s not lunis fault. As a Gacha user, Gacha heat is really disgusting. I hope it gets stop within 3 years atleast.
Lmao
As a member or the gacha community, I have to say that the heat is probably the first thing you see, since older teenagers normally play the game or even 5 year old with their mom's phones, you'll find either kid-friendly things or gory/sexual content.
Yeah it's almost impossible to find good vids instead of those weird ones
u single tho?
@@Tactical_Nuke0 Bro wtf
trust@@StarberryCreetH
@@Tactical_Nuke0TH-cam isn’t a dating app anymore, dumbass!
I remember used to being in the community until 2022, seeing nothing but now so much drama and toxicity in there. It’s really disappointing how it to innocent videos/great quality videos from good content creators to inappropriate, exposing videos from bad influencers. I wish the game didn’t really existed honestly, it ruined most of my childhood.
Ya, but for me, back when the game was more kind and welcoming and helpful, it marked a happy point. Most of my classmates knew it then and my sibling and I would watch videos together and even wanted to make a yt channel abt at some point. There really were/ still is talented animators, editors and storytellers. One of my friend still plays gacha life/club/life 2. I'm not as active in the gacha community now but whenever I do see 1 or 2 videos come up on my recommended, their from artist I like and artists and bringing good and exciting news. It makes me happy when I see youtubers I used to watch still make content. With time and more passionate, talented and actually concern and aware gacha users, and I feel that the gacha community might bounce back to life one day, eventually.
it made my childhood and i have a lot ofgood memories so i cant bring myself to agree
As someone who uses Gacha this video make me extremely sad…it just shows that no matter what people will always make something inappropriate even if it’s a game for children
And also you put soooo much effort in this video i never ever Uploaded a Video or copied one cause i like tellling own Stories! :) cause it makes me happy
Honestly, I think the thing most missing from this video (or possibly it was my own experience) is how mental illness obsessed some of the creators were. They would claim they had (insert any ailment here) and carry around like it was a badge for others to see. Personally that was the part that messed me up the most as a 9 year old kid in 2017.
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You are the only TH-cam creator who includes video sponsor ads that I actually watch. The ads are integrated so seamlessly into the video that I don't realize when they start, and I don't want to skip them because I'm afraid I won't be able to tell when they end. My hat's off to you, and to your editor
As someone in the Gacha community, I hate seeing this game transforming into something all about inappropriate topics and violence. Even when it was supposed to be kid-friendly.
in every game of this type there will always be someone and something like this, such a world. prohibitions will have the opposite effect than intended, and even if someone wants to, they will find a way to circumvent them, someone will always use something contrary to the beliefs of the rest of the community. The problem is who will use what and how, not where or in what.
6:13 bro I was straight up blown away when seeing these, if anybody who made any of these see’s this. Great job these are amazing and really well made
They're made by Kittypop time who's a very skilled gacha animator! I recommend checking her out
As a gachatuber it’s disgusting how some people ruin the whole gacha community :(
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THE TRANSITION INTO THAT SPONSOR WAS CRAZY 😫‼️‼️ but yeah agree w/ everything I finally had the guts to watch this (I get offended pretty easily and don’t like hurting my ego with stuff like this ☠️) but so happy that this vid talks specifically about bad content and not all Gacha 🙏
It really sucks how horrible the Gacha community has gotten- even with lumis attempts to make it harder to make Gacha heat, it didn’t stop it- there are still good creators but it’s horrible that there are still so many bad people…
I am still a part of the Gacha Community and I still worried and terrified about what my community has become and what it turning into now. People like LenTotally, Hatsumi Rou, Nehema Rahman, the internet just associates us with content farms and toxic content. I hope that sooner or later there will be drastic changes or at least something that can change the way the community acts.
@SunshinePIRRATAShe was Racist, Made Clickbaiting Thumbnails with Child @buse and Su1c1d3, She disrespected many groups of people just for sake of it and more
@SunshinePIRRATAShe mocked suicide and mocked technoblades death.
This was a very interesting and informative video! The editing is amazing and must have taken a long time. I've been part of the Gacha community for some years now but I wasn't really informed about anything that was going on below the surface. I am really sad to see that the community isn't what it used to be anymore and I really hope that we can go back to the better times...
Oh my- i loved your content as a kid! Especially the solo meme! :D
UR THE EDITOR I WATCHED AS A KID
OMG ZOUCHII
being in the gacha community, personally i find its a feedback loop: a few messed up 9 year olds make gacha heat and then more 9 year olds watch it and make more of that cause they think its ok and "cool." dude what happened to the innocent glmv's? the bad tweening we all loved? legends never die? i think one did... gacha life
Hi! Gacha editor who makes... Mostly violent edits: Gacha is still a good game and the fandom behind it is split in half. Bad and good, you shouldn't assume it is just this "bad" part of the fandom
I still play Gacha (I’m normal I promise), but I don’t consider myself to be a part of the community anymore because of how messed up that small percentage of people who play it are. Glad to see you cover this topic.
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as a gachatuber, this is a really great video. he clearly did lots of research and not only pointed out the bad but even pointed out the good. I was kind of expecting the worse at first but I'm really happy about how this video was made. you mentioned the issues with the community and still pointed out the positive sides. I really appreciate it :)
Yeah, I honestly just expected us to be roasted and bullied for the whole video-
The fact that there are a hundreds of gacha tubers that are actually good at it and get embarrassed if somebody asks them about using gacha all due to this Gacha heat.
i was a gacha creator around 2021.. it was on its peak and i had around two hundred thousand views overall and i made family-friendly videos. it was a lovely community and experience, yet the more you done it the more inappropriate everything became😭 my front page was full of inappropriate videos and the gacha reputation made me delete the channel.
A lot of the community is amazing and talented. It’s such a shame the bad side is always talked about more.
Yeah..
agreed.
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@@yoriichisactualnumber1lover off topic but I love your user lmao
talented? they literally just dress up their character and pick a pose that was already premade by the devs
Im am so grateful and happy for a big creator to actually step up and expose the horrors behind the screen.
As a gachatuber I completely agree on how you explained it because it’s not wrong.I don’t know why this community has become what it is.We need to stop Gacha he4t and save the community
Gacha is for kids, it's just it can get into the wrong hands and sadly most of these little videos are by kids, I have a gacha channel that I'm celebrating 1 year of posting today, and I've NEVER posted this disgusting contect of gacha heat!
For people who don't want to be associated with the gross stuff around gacha a new similar game called chibimation is coming out soon. The creators of this game are dedicated to not allowing any content like this as opposed to luni who does... nothing
I feel like Chibimation is gonna be the new gacha, imagine we have 2018-2019 all over again.
tbf, luni *did* try some things, just not much
updating the game’s expressions to be less inappropriate, and making it so you cant swear in studio etc
even in gacha club you cant have a shirt be too similar of a color to the character’s default skin (easy workaround though) and the face shading cant be colored
there was stuff changed, just has easy workarounds and alternatives
Actually, in gacha club, he did two things. First was a pop up making sure that the creator doesn't use things like nudity, and second, the gacha club app censors swearing
You can do worse than luni and as proof of this, look at the creators of roblox, roblox is known to have an ODer problem and not only do they do less than luni, but they are also considering allowing online dating and nudity on roblox.
yes but luni did this after years of outrage from the fandom and still keeps inappropriate items in the game. Also he hasn't made any effort to stop gacha heat video's from remaining on youtube
its seriously unbelieveable the amount of effort you put into these, if editing was a sport, you would be in the olympics.
I appreciate that 🙏🏽
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@@VisualVenture also you forget to mention not everyone in the community is bad I see good comet and in my opinion you can like a game with out being in the community I respect your opinions
i still am nostalgic when it comes to the early 2000.good old days
Gacha was my childhood, but I'm ashamed of the bad people in the community
It honestly makes me so upset that people are ruining the entire reputation of it. There are good things in the community it makes me really sad that the bad things overshadow it.
I'm actually in the gaxha community and creator myself and formally apologise for everything in this video. I won't be surprised if he mentions Nehama, Lentotally or Hatsune Rou. They're all pretty bad people and not to mention the gacha heat content.
There is extremely talented and wholesome people in the community, I personally would recommend Vicaton. He's a pretty cool dude and is even making his own game!
Like everything on the Internet, there's good and the bad. Take MLP for an example. Bronies (at least the ones that I've met) can be the nicest people you meet or absolutely bat-crap insane.
I can't wait to watch this video but again, I apologise for any damage that the community may have caused.
Don’t stress it. You didn’t cause that damage. You don’t need to apologize for something you didn’t do.
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i used to be part of the gacha community and it saddens me to see the community act like this
@@pupcake0same
It’s all your fault buddy
The community is child friendly, but people post inappropriate content of it and NSFW content. It's that easy to ban it.
I remembered playing gacha life when i was in grade 3, the alpha high school roleplays, singing battles and funny memes but like people now make some pornographic thing called Gacha Heat which they use the gacha characters and make videos of them doing inappropriate things and these inappropriate trends it's so disappointing now 😢
The worst thing I can ever see is that my kids knowing and doing terrible TERRIBLE things that kids AREN’T suppose to know yet it makes it worse and this game has been scratching my skin. I am very happy for you that you talk about it because if nobody speaks up to it then you have to speak about it
It's so sad that there are some insane creators based on gacha that are turning those characters into pure masterpieces yet gacha is only known for the dark side of it...guess nothing cannot have at least a bit of toxicity in the fandom/community...but it's sad some of these things(games,anime,shows etc) end up having such a bad reputation because of that toxic part of the community...
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Like when I see people liking Roblox even though it has some dark history like gacha life, And people just forget those things and go to the positive side of Roblox.
But its not the same for gacha life.
I’m gonna ignore the fact that his transition from talking about gotcha life to his sponsor was so clean
I watched so many gacha life animation “memes” (those are not memes and they are just calling them memes to get the algorithm to show meme lovers that sh*t) when I was into TTTE and I regret it
I have left the gacha community because of how messed up the community is and in the community there are lots of people stealing contents, people copying each other, people making lazy trend to get views while gachatubers who put effort into their videos always get over seen and some gachatubers even groom their fans, it's just so heart breaking to see the community that was once a child friendly community turn into something like this and seeing the lack of creativity makes my blood boil.
(Edit: i am very glad you made a documentary of this, thank you very much.)
pls tell me ur single..
There's thankfully still a lot of good stuff out there like Mika rou and WideDoggy, but unfortunately mostly inappropriate stuff appears first, giving gacha a bad rep :(
As someone in the community I do agree with this.There’s a lot of disgusting videos and people out there.I really do hope that those people stop and stuff💀
Edit:Ik 21 likes ain’t much but ty anyway😚
Same & I also agree
All we can do is report and block sadly enough
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Nahh fr tho, I used to be in it when I was 8-12 and there was so much incest ,sa and gay fetishizing glmm.
@@ShawtyGrim bro, same. I just left the community cuz the proshipping- IT WAS EVERYWHERE until it literally ruined the characters for me💀
I've been apart of the Gacha community for years now, and I can say for sure that this community has, like, the nicest and supportive people you could ever meet in your entire life. :D
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People might call Gacha 'cringy,' which is understandable. There are some things that are cringeworthy, but not everything is.
I hope everything will become better soon in the community.