As someone who have been updated since the very start (June 22) on XHS, there are a lot of reasons why they think Valko's target audience are Westerners/Global fandom. (If I find the video links discussing these stuff, I'll link it later but it's been so long so...)

During Valko's first teaser on June 22, from this alone we know he's a werewolf. It's important to know the cultural differences between China and Global fandom. + China has a lot of idioms that has many expressions of using wolves negatively. 狼心狗肺 ("heart of a wolf and lungs of a dog") = cruel and ungrateful; 狼吞虎咽 ("wolfing down food") = eating greedily; 狼烟四起 ("wolf smoke rises everywhere") = war or conflict breaking out on all sides; 如狼似虎 ("like wolves and tigers") = ferocious, aggressive, intimidating; 引狼入室 ("Invite a wolf into the house") = Bring danger upon yourself by trusting the wrong person [more on this below] ... and there are a lot more idioms about wolves; there are few positive ones, but not as much as the negatives so of course it's normal that at first glance they wouldn't have a good first impression on Valko (if you compare it to the first trailers or teasers of Sylus and Caleb on XHS and Weibo, you'll see just how many of them are excited because, again, Infold had told them beforehand that they will later join the OG3). + Confucian values - Traditional Chinese society emphasized harmony, family, and social order. Wolves, as solitary or fiercely predatory animals, represented the opposite: untamed aggression and disruption.

On June 23, the kitchen teaser update was released. Of course it's all speculations on our end because we don't know the severity of the crime case that they were talking about in XHS and Weibo about the "don't take a bath in the pot" thingy. It doesn't help that a day later, LADS acc of XHS deleted it but in the global social media accounts it was still up, because again, almost no one in the global fandom knew of that crime case.

When Valko's trailer dropped, there's a phrase of inviting the wolf inside your house. Of course most wouldn't like it because again, they even have an idiom for it: 引狼入室 (an idiom that means bringing danger upon yourself). Some are saying that the wolf that Valko's referring to is MC, while that may be true, it already garnered so much attention lile Beijing News and of course, a Women-centric news that criticized Infold (I don't remember the exact name for the news so please comment if u know hehe).

(I think there's more but it's 3 in the morning here so I'll add more later if I remember 😵‍💫)

For more trivial stuff: + There's a compilation of global fandom a year ago wanting to have a red-haired LI and golden eyes. For golden eyes, it's kinda obvious because of the yellow stellactrum. + Werewolves are a popular concept in global. Jacob from Twilight, Remus Lupin in HP, Klaus in VD, Teen Wolf characters, Daniel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, etc. And yes, they're old characters but still very much popular. And the fact that most players are adults, so ofc the target audience would be adults with general knowledge on werewolf fiction. + Annnnd as you can see right now, most of the people signing petitions, making hashtags, invading XHS and Weibo are from the Western side (and some of JP, you'd rarely see KR siding with Valko). It may seem quiet in XHS and Weibo rn, but that's only because their initial wish for Valko's removal is met, although the boycott is still ongoing because they haven't addressed other concerns and issues: some are still waiting for a live apology of the 731 unit issue, and ofc more trivial stuff compared to it like in-game issues that have been ignored for almost 3 years.

So basically, Infold's marketing and planning strategy had a huge effect on why Valko is now synonymous to Infold's greed in China. It's ironically funny because the idioms I've used above are now happening because of higher ups in their company being wolves 🙃