3/9/2024 0 Comments Goodbye volcano high cancelled![]() It forced KO_OP to make their Discord group a private one. The trolls also began posting these images and leaving hateful messages in “raids” on KO_OP’s Discord, a community chat platform. The trolls targeted the game because of its LGBTQ-inclusiveness, using its distinctive cartoon art to make hateful, violent, and often NSFW images mocking the game’s queerness. The small, Montreal developer co-operative called KO_OP describe the game as “a hybrid cinematic narrative/rhythm game/coming of age/interactive movie experience.” But ever since it was first announced at a 2020 Sony digital showcase, KO_OP has become targeted by a group of anti-LGBTQ trolls from 4chan, an anonymous bulletin board website. The game, Goodbye Volcano High, involves Fang, a non-binary dinosaur and rock band member who is forced to choose between family, friends, and romance during their senior year, just as an asteroid is headed to kill all the dinos on Earth. A plucky group of LGBTQ video game developers is proceeding with their latest project, a video game featuring non-binary and queer characters, despite a long and ongoing harassment campaign against it by bigoted trolls. ![]()
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