That whole trans VA drama that just happen the AK community is exactly why the community itself feels so bad to me overall, and another example of why gatekeeping is important.
In the case of AK, the game itself already has allegories for minorities, gays, and other similar things so it isn’t really surprising that it fostered the community it did. Hell, the game already got a JP trans man to voice an op years before. The reason that didn’t cause a problem is because the op in question Dagda, who is considered bad by the playerbase in terms of gameplay so not many people actually care about her.
In the case of AK, the game itself already has allegories for minorities, gays, and other similar things so it isn’t really surprising that it fostered the community it did. Hell, the game already got a JP trans man to voice an op years before. The reason that didn’t cause a problem is because the op in question Dagda, who is considered bad by the playerbase in terms of gameplay so not many people actually care about her.