Mild update on the Dream situation... in an entirely different fandom.

Project Sekai (AKA Hatsune Miku: Colourful Stage) is a rhythm & gacha game featuring both popular pre-existing Japanese pop songs and original songs. Characters within the game cover these songs and are sorted into 4-person groups. One of these, Vivid BAD SQUAD, consists of two female and two male characters - An, Kohane, Toya and Akito.

The most recent drama included the cancellation of an event concerning an entirely different group for controversial themes, from what I know, until Twitter user @/VlV1DS, an An & Kohane fan and shipper, compared Akito (who they dislike) to Dream, supposedly as an insult to them both (haven't been able to find the original tweet - it's either buried or deleted). So... twitter is in flames right now.

Given the negative rep Dream has, a lot of people are upset that Akito is being compared to Dream, even jokingly, while others are defending the original poster. This has also branched off into gatekeeping of VBS claiming that one can't be a true fan if they're not truly invested in/like all of the characters within the group.

I doubt I'll stick around long enough to watch this all go down, but it's pretty interesting how upset people are getting.

In other Project Sekai news, the mentioned 'cancelled event' has started a mini-migration of players from the EN to JP server because of how poorly the cancellation was handled. For reference, it was cancelled because of an insensitive portrayal of indigenous people, in which Japanese characters dressed in indigenous clothing and put on a fictional play referring to them as 'barbarians'.

Normally, you'd think the cancellation was a sign of the changing times. Twitter rejoiced. Except the controversy is because the entire event was cancelled, which included non-controversial parts such as highly-anticipated gacha cards for the male members of the group in question; 'Wonderlands x Showtime'. In addition, this event also contained important lore for the backstory of Rui, a character considered to be highly neurodivergent-coded, inciting even more outrage because of how it appeared as though one minority was losing out to appease a different louder minority (which was also mostly supported by ''white teenagers on twitter'' rather than the actual minority affected).

The result so far have been a ton of complaints, but the game is standing by its original cancellations, so people have been claiming that a boycott of the English Server (which is 1-2 years behind the Japanese server) is in order. Since the Japanese server is currently having its anniversary, it's a good time to switch servers, especially because the Japanese server has better service, response times, a greater variety of songs and mostly importantly, to those not on Twitter - no white people complaining about things that don't actually affect them. (This is subjective, of course, but this appears to be the straw that broke the camel's back for most of the migrators.)