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[–]Kaleochu GeOTP 5983 points5984 points  (254 children)

this is a joke right

edit: apparently the tweet got deleted? lmao

[–]HayashiSawaryo[S] 2705 points2706 points  (169 children)

PR stunt

[–]quebae 3447 points3448 points  (165 children)

to what? make them seem even more bizarre and out of touch than they already do? posting this is just weird.

[–]freaks_outs33 1619 points1620 points  (105 children)

People will call you a party pooper but yeah it’s left-field to me too. It’s like they’re memeing about something that really isn’t funny and in this climate it’s just gonna blow up in their face lol

[–]SnarkyHummingbird 1212 points1213 points  (89 children)

This community event may not affect any of us, but damn, this just highlights how out of touch the marketing/pr team are with the fanbase (or just the internet in general).

It's especially funny given the fact it's held on twitter. Like does MHY know the Twitter fanbase has a huge chunk of kids who are very into social justice and do not give a crap who Elon Musk is? (This is the same fanbase who tried to cancel Eula over her family history) Or that Elon musk's image has fallen out of favour and he is no longer regarded as the "funny telsa man" like years ago? I'm just flabbergasted by this decision.

[–]kazuyaminegishi 254 points255 points  (5 children)

Idk even for me who didn't get upset over the anniversary stuff this is just indefensible. It's so stupid I don't know what the goal is.

The 500k one I can KINDA see since I'd occasionally seen people wishing it went back to that, but everything after is just lol.

Especially the last reward, why would I follow a meme account so a billionaire can go to China to see another billionaire????? They can do that without me????

[–][deleted] 169 points170 points  (3 children)

Yeah. This is stupid shit. This is basically being like "if we get our fans to rate our game 5 stars, we won't give them shit anyway"

[–]naoki7794 104 points105 points  (9 children)

I mean this make everyone talking about how stupid it is, and a bunch of people gonna see the account they want to promote, which is like a Genshin fanart showcase account, and no small number of them will follow.

If you use your head calmly, you will see that the goal they set is impossible, even the genshin main account only have 2,4 mil follower after a year, there are no way the other account is gonna make it. Only the 500k follower seem possible, and they only need to switch their name back to Paimon (which is what they want to do anyway).

This is the same thing as having terrible ads you see so many games use (and even genshin), bad reps is sometime better than good reps, because people in the internet crave for the drama and stupidity.

[–]albertrojas 88 points89 points  (2 children)

This. MHY's PR team is only aiming for the first one. The rest become increasingly unlikely to achieve and is mostly there as reference.

In the off-chance that they do get to 5 million followers...well, it's not as if Elon will immediately accept.

[–]CrushedByTime 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Do you think Elon Musk will miss a chance to ingratiate himself with Asian youth through a cultural success story?

[–]ivari 221 points222 points  (37 children)

This stunt is actually fun if they pick ANYONE except Elon Musk lmao. Just be a dear like FF and invite Ariana Grande or someone lmao

[–]Timoyr 144 points145 points  (6 children)

Then the joke wouldn't land (which grabted it didn't now either).

The whole joke is the one the community did back when the game launched (the in-game NPC Ella Musk being related to irl Elon Musk)

I guess they could've named the fanart account "Timmy's pigeons" and have the fake goal be invinting a famous chef to cook duck for them or something.

[–]Gestrid 37 points38 points  (1 child)

Invite Swedish Chef from the Muppets.

[–]BluShine 67 points68 points  (7 children)

I’d be interested if it was like “Ariana Grande will voice an NPC in Genshin”. I don’t know why anyone would about random celebs visiting Mihoyo HQ. Elon is rich and well-connected, he could just email the CEO and offer to drop by next time he’s in the country, he doesn’t need special permission from a twitter campaign.

I know they just picked Elon for the meme value, but they could at least have picked an actual professional entertainer. “Conan O’Brien visits Mihoyi HQ” might be fun to watch in a 2-minute video.

[–]Chama-Axory 193 points194 points  (4 children)

I tought this was a players joke. And then I see the official post...

[–]Offduty_shill 70 points71 points  (3 children)

Yeah this is so cringe lmao

Like does Elon Musk even know what Genshin is? I guess it must've been a joke cause the follower goals were so absurd...?

[–]niceworkthere sax panthers 44 points45 points  (1 child)

The whole point of "Ella Musk" and "Musk Reef" is to brownnose Elon into (at least) tweeting about the game and thus doing free ads – presumably since mHY figured his twitter followers sufficiently overlap with a paying audience for the game, and some of the already hooked ones would spam him with it.

Since that didn't work out for a year now they're making that intention obvious by publicly forcing their luck.

Or maybe we'll suddenly see it called "Bezos Reef" & co. in 2.3.

edit: well seems he did just tweet about it now so mission accomplished I guess

[–]a_salty_bunnyGANG GANG WOO 14 points15 points  (0 children)

there's also a possibility that dawei is a techbro who idolise musk like people in asia idolising jack ma.

[–]AlpacaCavalry 60 points61 points  (0 children)

The fuck is this shit with musk, get that shit outta here

[–]IllusionPh thighs save life 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The goals after the first one are clearly just a joke, cringe one, but a joke, just like how they put Ella Musk in the game, and even in this art giggling.

Like, EN official Twitter doesn't even have that much followers.

Let alone the fact that if they'd do it for real, why would someone like Elon Musk care about them.

And also that Mihoyo HQ is in China.

[–]VG-Vox 295 points296 points  (13 children)

I sure do feel like a joke for having spent money on this game.

[–]Terostero 169 points170 points  (10 children)

Every new "quirky" PR stunt they do further vindicates my choice of never spending on this game again.

[–]fugogugo 134 points135 points  (23 children)

whoever running the community management should get replaced

Elon Musk? that scammer? what for. he's not even a gamer

[–]Redcrimson 2763 points2764 points  (24 children)

I'm going to give MHY the benefit of the doubt and assume the 'At 10M follows, Elon Musk liquidates his companies and uses the money to buy every follower Genesis Crystals' part got accidentally cropped out

[–]Uries_Frostmourne 346 points347 points  (14 children)

They can invite Elon Musk all they want but will he even come? Lol

[–]Redcrimson 232 points233 points  (11 children)

Here's a Marketing 101 lesson for ya: All of this was already worked out in advance, and the social media campaign is a dog-and-pony show. Musk had probably already gone to and filmed at MHY before they even posted the announcement.

[–]Potatolantern 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Unlikely, the main account has 2mill follows and they're asking for 5mill. Musk isn't likely to just go all the way there and film something on a low maybe like that.

[–]Infinite-Fact-3016 55 points56 points  (7 children)

Musk doesnt give a shit about genshin lol

[–]DingusCunillingus But yoi also has my heart 50 points51 points  (6 children)

He just tweeted about it lol

[–]dobbyjhin 189 points190 points  (5 children)

Fk those Genesis Crystals, at 10M followers when you hit AR60, you get a free Tesla hands down

[–]Desmous I pulled a qiqi 56 points57 points  (3 children)

The inner gambling addict in me secretly wants the genesis crystals instead

[–]ChildOfHades_ yes 28 points29 points  (2 children)

Same but you could sell the Tesla for more money :)

[–]laughtale0 2583 points2584 points  (49 children)

Wow, this is worthless..

Why should I care if Elon Musk visit Mihoyo.

[–]HaogenChan 1117 points1118 points  (10 children)

Ya wtf is Elon Musk anyway, all I know is Ella Musk

[–]PranshuKhandal 401 points402 points  (6 children)

Her father obviously, the renowned Hilichurl.

[–]Cody4783 Afternoon Tea? 206 points207 points  (2 children)

I understand this isn't the connection you intended to make...But oh god you just put the lore into my head that Ella Musk is the estranged daughter of a Hilichurl x Human relationship and her strange obsession with Hilichurls is just a deep seated desire to reunite with her heritage/estranged half of her family.

[–]ChildOfHades_ yes 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Fanfic go brrr

[–]Toriningen 147 points148 points  (4 children)

The same reason we should care that Jeff Bezos went into space....

We don't.

[–]SomberXIII+ 114 points115 points  (3 children)

Mihoyo truly cares because it would attract major attention to them.

Attention can be converted to more money. That's their goal.

[–]Shippinglordishere 150 points151 points  (13 children)

It would be kind of embarrassing if they didn’t meet the goal. The English account has 2.4 million followers so I guess it’s a long term goal unless they’re trying to get Elon Musk’s followers to get into Genshin??

[–]laughtale0 174 points175 points  (11 children)

Probably one of their marketing trick, they just want the news headline without actually giving anything to the player.

[–]-Eastern_Sky- 111 points112 points  (10 children)

isnt this clearly a joke? 1M is really hardly to achieve let alone a meme account, then theres the 3M/5M goals which are obviously impossible. right?

[–]ivari 76 points77 points  (2 children)

That is their intention. They only want to "give" the 500k follower rewards

[–]Desmous I pulled a qiqi 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"rewards". Create a problem and sell the solution as a reward, genius.

[–]Cody4783 Afternoon Tea? 1484 points1485 points  (14 children)

This is one rare case where, even after all the other 'community events' with questionable rewards... I genuinely had an audible "WTF" are they doing.

No seriously. What.

[–]veeyza 328 points329 points  (2 children)

They just deleted the tweet after all the backlash HELP

[–]Cody4783 Afternoon Tea? 193 points194 points  (0 children)

Ahahahaha. I wonder did they'll have a replacement or just delete and bury it like nothing happened.

New community manager trying an experiment and having an "Oh shit" moment when it completely missed the mark.

I'd almost rather see the theory that their Twitter got hacked for a few hours pan out. Because if this is how the new community manager is handling things... Ohhh boy it's gonna get wild.

[–]justacsgoer 284 points285 points  (0 children)

Yet another "give US stuff and you get nothing!" community event lol

[–]dakedokyoumojoujouniText flair 2167 points2168 points  (42 children)

There is no fucking way they fucked up this bad. Bring back pre-1.6 PR team.

[–]V-I-S-E-O-N 811 points812 points  (27 children)

Or just delete their account and let leakers handle, lmao.

[–]Anidamo 913 points914 points  (6 children)

absolutely bizarre decision from Mihoyo marketing department

[–]-Eastern_Sky- 345 points346 points  (3 children)

the newly hired PR guys doing their tricks

[–]IceWotorYae may suck, but atleast she can suck𓂸 92 points93 points  (1 child)

The pr guys are shit compared before, and I thought apex is the only game going downhill

[–]naufalap 55 points56 points  (1 child)

bring back drip marketing paimon

[–]MartialArtist126 1631 points1632 points  (21 children)

This is sooo cringe. Like a bad April Fools joke. Or their account got hacked.

[–]rydraby 291 points292 points  (4 children)

Felt like sad cringe when I saw the post

[–]ChildOfHades_ yes 84 points85 points  (1 child)

I thought this was a shitpost

[–]feed_me_churros 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I keep going back and forth. A huge part of me thinks it's just a group who is out of touch with Western culture and all they have is outdated memes to go by so while we may "WTF", it would be like us trying to appeal to Chinese culture and missing the mark. It comes across as completely tone-deaf but I can see the good intentions at least.

But an equal-sized part of me wonders if they are master trollers knowingly stirring shit because they know it will drive conversation about them, making their brand more recognizable, because they know that no matter what they do, all they have to do is something like drop Itto and suddenly the entire internet starts fawning again.

[–]Exziles Waiting for Hu Tao to prank me irl 601 points602 points  (4 children)

You really can't make this shit up lmao

[–][deleted] 110 points111 points  (1 child)

I thought this was a cringey reddit moment ,but no this is a real PR stunt that they somehow thought people would like, holy shit.

[–]peezzy KIOU NO OTOORI DA! 907 points908 points  (16 children)

This Dawei dude must be a real fan of Elon huh. Adding an npc inspired by Elon's name and now asking the community this stunt to invite him? AND THERE'S NO REAL REWARD FOR US.

HARD PASS

[–][deleted] 348 points349 points  (3 children)

It's such a blatant attempt at gaining more publicity from a (pretty popular at the time) celebrity that it's causing me second hand embarrassment.

[–]kvisha420what up ITS YA BOI CHILDE 228 points229 points  (3 children)

what in the actual fuck is this

[–][deleted] 776 points777 points  (14 children)

For 10 million views, Dawei will suck elon off

[–]Di_Gram 159 points160 points  (0 children)

LMAO. I'd actually follow if that was the case for shits and giggles.

[–]MillionMiracles 174 points175 points  (1 child)

He'd do that for free, we both know that.

[–]a_salty_bunnyGANG GANG WOO 16 points17 points  (0 children)

he already did, mf plugged musk's name twice in the goddamn game

[–]HentaiOnna 335 points336 points  (3 children)

These fuckers are really embracing the “all publicity is good publicity” mentality

[–]SumFagolaHu Tao? More like Wu Mao! 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they took note at how brainlets lap this shit up

[–]catharsis23 635 points636 points  (12 children)

One of the most bizarre and out of touch community challenges I have ever seen. Well done! I'm actually impressed. Also the main Genshin twitter account doesn't even have 3 million followers lmao

[–]ArchonRevan 156 points157 points  (10 children)

Nah they know what they're doing, 90% of the goals are effectively impossible and there just for jokes

[–]naoki7794 50 points51 points  (0 children)

eh, I would say 75% of the goal is impossible, only 1 out of 4 goal is kinda doable since 500k for a fan art showcase account is within reach.

[–]irtehmrepic 132 points133 points  (0 children)

Frankly I'd prefer having no PR communication over this.

[–]pIainIy 701 points702 points  (23 children)

why the hell would i do that or remotely care about elon musk

[–]Ray-Zide7 She's Never getting Reworked huh... 143 points144 points  (0 children)

Because funny readit man give us 10 billions followers for gimmic account you pawns

[–]Xaolin99 868 points869 points  (20 children)

Other Gacha games: hit a certain amount of followers = giveaway free pulls

Mihoyo: hit a certain amount of followers = invite Elon Musk to Mihoyo HQ

lmfao as if the playerbase isn't already mad enough about Anniversary

[–]V-I-S-E-O-N 237 points238 points  (2 children)

You skipped the part where their reward for hitting 2 million is basically a challenge to follow them even more in return for something that they changed in the first place (being the name) and whoever that elon mushy guy is.

[–]Xaolin99 91 points92 points  (1 child)

It's always some marketing scheme. I love the game but the company treats the players like they're advertisers constantly needing to spread the word about Genshin Impact. They're already the largest Gacha game and constantly at the top of the charts in the mobile market, I don't see why they continue treating the playerbase this way.

[–]Boyzby_ 82 points83 points  (2 children)

"We will follow Elon Musk on Twitter" is the dumbest "reward" I have ever seen. Why should I give a damn who follows who on Twitter? Oh, they hit the follow button. What a huge event. Is that going to come with some primogems in-game?

[–]Desmous I pulled a qiqi 37 points38 points  (0 children)

And the 500k reward is literally them creating a problem and acting like reversing it is a reward.

[–]sawDustdust 15 points16 points  (0 children)

They can't even get international KFC wings, doubt they can pull Elon Musk. Peak cringe. Is this what they hired that new PR person for?

[–]Candid_Back7687 115 points116 points  (1 child)

please say sike

[–]wwwwwwww0102Supreme Waifu 561 points562 points  (26 children)

The only milestone that is kinda worth it is the first one. The rest can f off. I doubt they can get the first one even kek.

[–]joannofarc22 105 points106 points  (9 children)

why is the first one worth it? i’m not really seeing a reason why the account being named “genshin impact” is that bad?

[–]DoctuhD Rate-up in my soul 220 points221 points  (1 child)

I kinda liked the official account being somewhat "in-character", it was charming. But this is a change they should make based on community feedback, not as a milestone on a weird PR stunt.

[–]Gregamonster Best girls, worst units. 119 points120 points  (1 child)

Because it was more fun to imagine Paimon as the one tweeting instead of a corporate PR guy.

[–]wwwwwwww0102Supreme Waifu 84 points85 points  (0 children)

It's a return to when the account was named Paimon previously. Kinda a novelty stuff.

[–]FungalSphere 26 points27 points  (0 children)

people like brands which act like people and have people like names

[–]marioscreamingasmr 213 points214 points  (1 child)

the official genshin impact twitter account for the west is only at 2.4 million followers lmfao what makes them think they can hit 5m for a "haha funny pr stunt" account

and elon musk of all people, are they tryna do a "haha funny elon musk meets ella musk" moment

edit: and who tf even cares abt if mhy follows elon musk

[–]soundboythriller 199 points200 points  (2 children)

Elon musk? They can keep it

[–]Uber_ 126 points127 points  (2 children)

Didn't they hire a new PR person or something? I guess this is the result lol

[–]irisshadow 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I thought they got hacked, it was so bizarre

[–]ctrlbeat enemies to business associates slow burn 262 points263 points  (3 children)

how do we benefit from any of this? wtf is mihoyo's pr team thinking?

[–]thequeenbeans 161 points162 points  (1 child)

Holy fuck thats cringe. I do not care about one billionaire visiting another

[–]SomberXIII+ 148 points149 points  (0 children)

This game's PR management is a wonder to behold

[–]Zyntal 244 points245 points  (8 children)

If they were gonna do this they could at least get someone interesting lol

[–]Careless_Rise8624 130 points131 points  (3 children)

I don’t see this posted on the JP Twitter or anywhere else. Apparently this is only a En thing? It’s purely just PR stunt then but MHY English branch is so out of touch lmao.

[–]HubbiAnn 49 points50 points  (0 children)

This is 100% an ENG thing, they have accounts in other languages as well (russian, spanish) and as of yet none posted this.

I’m almost sure is borderline trolling.

[–]tmsv111 45 points46 points  (3 children)

Only reason they chose him is because Ella Musk is named after him

[–]lolfacesayshi 175 points176 points  (2 children)

But she's not a mining heiress using blood money to buy up companies to pretend that she is an inventor.

Ella's an actual smart person who deciphered a language and intends to use it to broker peace. Misguided and innocent, but there's actual genius there.

[–]WateryGrapes 130 points131 points  (9 children)

???? what the hell is the global pr team doing?????

[–]eatsomeonion 尘世闲游 13 points14 points  (8 children)

Bandai’s ex PR director just joined mHY as global pr director

[–]naufalap 44 points45 points  (6 children)

did they get fired or something from bandai lmao

[–]undwtr_arpeggi 121 points122 points  (0 children)

this gotta be the funniest community challenge I've ever seen LMAOOOO who cares if elon musk visits or not their headquarters or if they follow his twitter acc, especially after anniversarygate

[–]LordSlayne 68 points69 points  (4 children)

I really thought this was satire.

[–]davidlynchsteet 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Literally had to check their Twitter. Idk who their social media bb is, but it’s not a good look.

[–]LordSlayne 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They're really messing with the playerbase for some reason. I think they're really looking down on us lol

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (1 child)

it genuinely looks like a shitpost

what did they expect out reactions to be

[–][deleted] 145 points146 points  (4 children)

had to check if its april today

[–]V-I-S-E-O-N 47 points48 points  (1 child)

Can you check again? I'm still not sure.

[–]Alt_F4_POG 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Fuck I have to triple check now.

[–]siinjuu 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Not to sound shallow, but I literally would’ve forgotten about the anniversary shenanigans if they had just shut up and let Itto and Gorou leaks run rampant for a while. Like I’ve been more excited about this game than I have in months because of them. And now my guard is back up 😀

[–]RasenShot2 "Never let you go~..." 52 points53 points  (3 children)

"Joke/meme" says the tag lmfao. Yeah right, they were serious. Otherwise why delete it?

[–]Moonyn 117 points118 points  (0 children)

What the hell is miHoYo doing?

[–][deleted] 73 points74 points  (6 children)

I almost died because of how cringe this is.

[–]Sankerin 239 points240 points  (10 children)

Who asked for this? This marketing sucks, no one cares about Elon

[–]ReDSauCe3 BEST CHARACTER 92 points93 points  (5 children)

Fr, also I’m not sure if everyone’s aware Elon isn’t exactly cool anymore

[–]Hegth 86 points87 points  (6 children)

Wow I thought I was going to enter in a Elon musk circlejerk post, but i entered and I'm seeing the opposite, never have I have been more proud of this community

[–]Jeremithiandiah 46 points47 points  (3 children)

This is really odd, I feel like mihoyo doesn't know how to appeal to the western market and don't realize they can do that by doing the same stuff they do for the eastern market.

[–]Dotori_Dan 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I swear miHoYo's PR team is smoking Naku Weed. I literally thought it was a joke and when I realized it wasn't I just went, "What in the actual fuck?" If I was in charge of the PR team, I would fire myself and the whole team. Wipe them clean and bring in a new one or hell bring back the drip marketing PR team that we remember. What is miHoYo doing? Like seriously? I'm concerned. I love this game, but man they are really doing their best to make me hate it. This is beyond sad cringe. Disappointing to say the least. How many times can a company disappoint you from controversy after controversy. It baffles me.

[–]Sp6rda 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I never liked any of genshin's web browser/community events. They are all just trying to get us to do free marketing for them. And it just feels like a blatant and empty effort.

This one is particularly bad. They literally removed the Paimon name and are just holding it hostage unless we market their game. That's not even a reward. That's just something they removed so they could force us to do something so they can put it back. Takes zero effort on their part.

[–]JaredDrake86 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Didn’t they get a new head of PR? Clearly they hired the wrong person.

[–]Poorplay 44 points45 points  (0 children)

So this whole thing is just to promote their second twitter account?

[–]GalphathLaw&Order 133 points134 points  (0 children)

They are so disconnected with the userbase now, shame.

[–]MillionMiracles 160 points161 points  (12 children)

is there a follower milestone we can hit to remove the elon musk references from the game

[–]FarewellToChangAn 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Actually lol’d. That’d get me to follow hahaha

[–]mekoomi 55 points56 points  (0 children)

“lets celebrate us getting 2M followers by you guys following this other account!”

I’d rather just take fowl and mora

[–]Light0fHeav3n 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Why do i have to follow this dumb account to get your twitter @ changed back to paimon, just change it back and stop being so out of touch with your community. And also nobody cares about elon musk following genshin.

[–]jelek112 18 points19 points  (0 children)

i smell another drama coming

[–]hemera03 19 points20 points  (1 child)

really the pre 1.6 PR team was so good!! it felt like i was playing a game made by actual humans and are genshin players themselves??? if this is a downwards trend i might stop spending money on this game next year when they screw up again

[–]not-noStay a while and listen 32 points33 points  (0 children)

What the fuck

Excuse my language

But, what the fuck

[–]whoatemycupoframen 77 points78 points  (3 children)

Wow I can't believe someone actually approved this 💀

I already have a problem with the Ella musk account, they posted artists' work in the name of "Content creator spotlight" but they didn't actually credit the artists. Shame

[–]DarkShadowEmi 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Ah, yes, it's another pile of nothing, like always.

[–]NekokittykunAnemo supremacist 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Mihoyo its not april fools day yet….. You are 7 months and 17 days too early

[–]Diegomenasai 14 points15 points  (2 children)

fucking elon musk, no fucking way kekw

[–]HereIsACasualAsker<-C6 qiqi on FURINA, ZHONGLI AND KAZUHA... WHYYY... 13 points14 points  (0 children)

hello mihoyo headquarters, this may be the most important post you may have ever received so you might want it to be professionally translated to avoid any loss in the message:

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!!!

[–]fitansaStop dying so fast, you insolent f**k 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Their PR team department is the real Genshin villain lol. The amount of shit Mihoyo taken ever since Inazuma update is bizzare.

[–]SummerEZ Hydro mie 29 points30 points  (0 children)

at least they’re getting roasted in the comments lmao

[–]danakir 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Words fail to describe how much I hate this. What the hell.

Elon Musk is a soulless sociopath and I don't want him and his garbage anywhere near this game. What are they thinking?

[–]Something_319 28 points29 points  (0 children)

lol we as a society made a huge mistake making this game this popular

[–]mooniio 61 points62 points  (6 children)

Thought it said Elon Musk for a sec ngl.

[–]TheodoreMcIntyre 100 points101 points  (3 children)

Thought it said Elon Musk for a sec ngl.

It does.

[–]I_Like_TRAPSoooooo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, it does.

[–]vineausaur7 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is like those jokes you think in your head and sound funny but when say them out loud they’re not. The difference is Genshin actually posted it!

[–]OpticalJesu5 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Everytime they get a little bit of goodwill back, they do something like this.

[–]yoshida-man 26 points27 points  (0 children)

How does this benefit the players

[–]RexorFWT 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Not surprising considering mihoyo expect us to shamelessly promote the game through events for mora

[–]SkyloTC 12 points13 points  (0 children)

tweet deleted lmao

[–]Kishiloh 54 points55 points  (0 children)

But they cant tweet a simple happy anniversary.

[–]ZekShehata 45 points46 points  (0 children)

nah wtf😂😂 Who fuckin runs this game’s PR .

[–]azzadruiz 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Literally what the fuck are they talking about? Literally nobody cares about any of the goals

[–]sixthday6 46 points47 points  (0 children)

They've become so out of touch, some are thinking this is the "community interaction" that we've been thirsting for. No, it's not. It's fucking weird as hell, not even connected to the game itself.

At this point, they only care about how they can make the game/company famous. Jesus christ.

[–]Chaoticsaur 61 points62 points  (4 children)

What about this is thanking us?

[–]Bluestixss 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Even more free advertisement for mihoyo. That's all we are to them LOOL

[–]PracticalaviationcatBest Father-Son Duo 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Wow. One of the cringiest social media posts I've seen from a large company.

[–]monomelon_ I, Fischl, Prinzessin der Verurteilung, descend upon th 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It got deleted lmao

[–]joannofarc22 67 points68 points  (0 children)

tell me why i’m supposed to give a fuck about some 50 ur old out of touch white man streaming genshin or visiting mihoyo headquarters?? 🥴💀

i am struggling to see which of the rewards are supposed to be incentivizing to the player base, and unless elon is buying a pack of crystals for everyone who follows, i really don’t care!!

[–]DoombotBL 18 points19 points  (0 children)

>avertise our game for us!

Sheesh, not even in-game rewards

[–]IthinkitsaDanny 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Getting real sick of MeHoyMeNoy’s shit.

[–]Toli2810huh 8 points9 points  (4 children)

Did they not realise how controversial of a person elon musk is? Good thing they took it down i guess. PR team be really out of touch huh

[–]gedas125 Fructose 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Can ppl mass report that account? Imagine if it got suspended. That would be nice.

[–]Multipl 18 points19 points  (1 child)

YIKES. And of all people it's fucking Elon.

[–]DurangaVoe 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I guess I'll stop buying welkins entirely, this is embarrassing.

[–]wildazebra 17 points18 points  (2 children)

either this some really bizarre stunt to get more visibility via people talking about how stupid this is or they’re actually just that out of touch to think people want this. latter feels more in character for them

[–]BLUcrabsI want to sit on my face 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Holesome child workers farming for artifacts in the mines 🥰

[–]ktran78 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Guess Bandai must have booted the new PR lady if this was the type of stuff she brings

[–]VG-Vox 67 points68 points  (6 children)

I can't believe how far they are willing to go to avoid giving people Primogems, or any tangible reward for reaching Milestones.

[–]Extraordinary_DREB Thus she arrived and my heart went boof 20 points21 points  (4 children)

And people say we're greedy, lmao

[–][deleted] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

um.. does mhy think we give a fuck about any of that? i don't understand

..i guess it's time to unfollow the EN Genshin Impact account

[–]oreoswirls keqing best girl 37 points38 points  (0 children)

ah just what we need as a reward, to support a billionaire who lived off of his family’s colonizer money.

[–]Stormeve best girls 17 points18 points  (1 child)

Even if this was a joke, it’s extremely lame and screams “I’m out of touch with the community”

[–]flexpost 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, like do any genshin fans give a shit about some asshole billionaire

[–]adamtheamazing64 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Does April Fool's land on October the 14th in China or something?

[–]uprobablyreadthis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

after annivesary without having ingame annivesary event, u decide to pull this shit mihoyo

[–]Roliq 43 points44 points  (1 child)

This has to be one of the shittiest community rewards in any gacha game ever

[–]V-I-S-E-O-N 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It is but another milestone for the Genshin PR team to break!