The Real Life Public Humiliation of a Fictional Social Media Intern

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[@niksooxyz]

The most intriguing part about all this is how we've been crafting this complex lore behind the intern and how there have been multiple ones in the past that all got fired for different mistakes, including the youtube intern who got fired for posting We're So Back on accident, and are now at the point where they've essentially run out of interns to fire and have replaced them with a soulless husk

[@squiddu]

I've been seeing it, as many others, as the depression arc, but at the same time they're STILL making errors so

[@rrrrrr-yo7sz]

Literally all of this is a conspiracy theory we know nothing about how many interns if at all got fired.

[@Naito9874]

​@@rrrrrr-yo7szIt's not even that, just the extent of a joke which remains fiction rather than theory

[@TMS-Oddbot]

This just sounds frustratingly anniying for that one guy who maybe hasn’t been fired. But by this point it does seem like something is genuinely missing, so maybe they actually have been fired now

[@TorayNix]

SplatoonNA lore

[@smexydeer1820]

This fictional intern has been getting the real life intern experience, where they're just doing their job and what they're told and get so much shit for minor mistakes that are often not their fault that they stop enjoying their job and it shows in their interactions with customers. The splatoon twitter fictional intern dealt with enough karens that they stopped having a personality.

[@ShurikanBlade]

At this point I genuinely feel bad.

[@asdfworld]

Same

[@giganticmoon]

same

[@neptuneash4617]

same

[@SimoneBellomonte]

Same

[@Eaten_squid_cake]

same

[@romanaww]

Instead of mocking the social media person on twitter, heal the social media person within 😌

[@be1tube]

We've moved on from dating. This post is parenting advice.

[@Kiutogi]

I've always felt that in moments like this, and other moments when a mistake is made on social media. Some folks aren't angry about the mistake, but looking for an excuse to feel justified in their bullying. We might leave the school yard when become adults, but the school yard mindset never truly leaves some people.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

If only people had more self-reflections…, but nopszh, better keep playingzsherkrtrdzszh abortniterdzszkhrtrdzszh and watching skribidzshi troiletrdzszh videos lol. 💀🗿

[@tygrus3495]

It's an actual X Battle.

[@jamieh9466]

LOL

[@flynnmaxwell4089]

😂

[@MultiFandomMadness2200]

You mad genius-

[@rdmtc]

i share your sentiments about this whole "intern" thing... i thought it was funny for the first few tweets, but then it started escalating to the point that it's demeaning... do these people not think before they type and hit 'Enter'? it kinda left me with a sour taste in my mouth and just didn't participate with the community for a few days

[@d.g4466]

A lot of the twitter community are young tweens and teens not realizing the consequences of hate waves and also not fully realizing the realities of being an intern/ having a job. Nor are they probably used to thinking damn this squid research assistant has feelings to.

[@ShadowSkyX]

​@d.g4466 oh most probably know, but don't care. They just want the likes and be part of the chain to keep it going.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

@@ShadowSkyXThey dont know, they just take it for granted, trust me.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

They dont think about it at all, or well, technically they DO know, i guess, but they just dont think about their consequences because they dont stop to think about what consequences their actions would entail, they just have no foresight, they dont think about whats going to happen if i do this and / or x, so yeah nvm maybe they actyually dont care lol, i was just arguing semantics tbh, it doesnt really change a damn thing about it or gems points anyways, gems is still right and thats it lol and case closed.

[@Chrissyke]

I even saw DUDE taking it too far. I thought it was out of character for him to dogpile and was a bit disappointed.

[@Angel..L]

I’m glad someone brought this up. No need to echo that they made a mistake for the thousandth time. I felt like people were taking the intern joke way too far. Internet dog piling is very easy to do and it’s something that get’s mentally draining. Yes Splatoon NA is corporate account . But there’s still someone behind the account. I saw someone making a social media account to point out every single mistake the official social media account has made is not helpful .

[@durdleduc8520]

for all we know it literally could have been an intern authoring those tweets.

[@meechsanims]

yeah having someone repeat your mistakes to you after you already corrected them is pretty awful

[@SimoneBellomonte]

Pfp (Profile picture) and / or Banner Sauce (Source [Artist])? 🗿

[@squiddu]

I've definitely made a lot of "intern shot out back" jokes before, but I sorta share the same thoughts of the people who first noticed the drier tone, yknow, what was wrong with them? Were they doing okay? Cause obviously the errors have been getting more prevalent and frequent ever since Splat 3 started but i doubt whoever runs the account has swapped around much. I didn't notice those people who just kept harassing them about these mistakes, and it does make me a little sad. But.. well, such is Twitter, unfortunately. Respect the intern. Even if they aren't exactly the one-man band we assume, which we'll never know for sure, employees who handle social medias rarely deserve the harrassment.

[@PerfectDarkly]

I started thinking about this a couple days ago because I noticed that Dude, in particular, started posting patronizing replies under nearly every single weapon kit post this week. At first, it was probably a fair and valid bit when the NA page had fallen days behind with the announcements. But then even after they course-corrected and started crossposting on schedule, he kept making comments giving condescending praise and poking fun at the intern's job security, and it just started to feel mean-spirited really quickly 💀 Like this top-level Splatoon influencer was just farming for laughs from his followers more than anything. Bro is a UK player he's not even supposed to be that invested in a North American social mirror

[@KeruFriendlyGolem]

It was definitely disappointing to see him behaving that way every time I checked a new kit

[@rg3892]

Seriously? I figured everyone would learn better from the rampant toxicity on overwatch. Its like (recent) history is about to repeat itself. Seeing ppl get worked up over Frye's loosing streak was already worrying. But the harrassment of the intern(s) is unquestionably awful behaviour. Maybe I'll step back from the community before things get bad again.

[@mikul958]

I feel the same way, I found the first 1-2 replies pretty funny but as time went on it just kept leaving a worse and worse taste in my mouth, definitely wasn't the behavior I expected from one of the biggest figures in the community.

[@lowpolyzoe]

It seems like he was trying to be funny but a lot of those tweets were just mean. I would hope he reflects on this because he's normally one of the more optimistic positive people in the Splatoon content creation space

[@SimoneBellomonte]

@@KeruFriendlyGolem Pfp (Profile picture) and / or Banner Sauce (Source [Artist])? 🗿

[@HyperLuigi37]

Okay, the "Dangsam Bomb" is a hilarious mistranslation. It literally read ダ da instead of what was actually written, タ ta, something a human might mistake if they don't look closely enough but a machine absolutely should not, and when you change that, タンサン tansan is a katakana writing of 炭酸 tansan which means carbonation. An actual correct machine translation would probably have given Carbonation Bomb, which would make it pretty clear it's Fizzy.

[@SquidSchool]

That's coming straight from the translate feature on Twitter lol

[@HyperLuigi37]

@@SquidSchool Yeah, which is why I’m complaining about a machine being unable to differentiate between タ and ダ lol

[@HyperLuigi37]

Just one of the many reasons I encourage people to just not use machine translation ever unless you absolute have to. Have somebody who would know? Ask them first.

[@SnoFitzroy]

@@HyperLuigi37 My solution is to try multiple machine translations, since they all often give different answers. If Google, Twitter, and DeepL all agree that a certain thing has one specific translation, I'm gonna trust it (but for Japanese specifically, I do have people that I ask to check, for more important things)

[@SimoneBellomonte]

@@HyperLuigi37Japanese to others seems to still be off, but english to italian? Thats like mostly spotless imho, it just depends on the language.

[@madamstasis]

my biggest problem with this whole situation is that it took people this long to show some basic decency

[@Driftwood-ML]

Part of me is worried that someday we'll learn that the localization team is going through massive crunch conditions working on Switch 2 games and that's why all this is going on right now. The fact that the the quality is going way down (as Gem has documented well here) may mean that things are going on at whatever department works on these messages that may not be within their control.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

I doubt it, social media managers and localizations arent really that joined, + they probably have 1 guy thats just dedicated to just localizing stuff, or maybe jp just directly hands off the script to Nintendo NA? Who knows, but regardless really.

[@-Hamza]

I don't use twitter, I just check the splatoon NA/JP accounts and maybe a few comments, so maybe I'm mistaken, but I don't think ppl were intentionally being mean at the "intern". Most of them, anyway. I just thought especially with things like the "One or more interns have been fired" thing that it was just a joke of "damn its jover for them 💀" and stuff, but it never really occurred to me that it does probably get to whoever is running that account seeing constant "oops another error!!". And I think that fact slipped a lot of other people's minds too.

[@Naito9874]

That's what I was thinking too, I just saw like one or two comments every time so I can't really know the scope of things, and as such, to me it was just a joke narrative that we made up after the first mistake, and was never meant to be taken seriously, but I also understand what this video is trying to convey

[@lowpolyzoe]

I feel like The Kids need taught in schools how not to be cyberbullies, bullies will always exist but they seem weirdly prevalent in Splatoon socmed circles to the point I just found the atmosphere not worth sticking around in. Like when people are posting "what is bro yapping about 💀" "you fell off 💀" I think they're... trying to be funny? But it's not, really? Obviously this isn't just a problem with The Kids, adults do that too, it's just Splatoon has a lot of people in the 13-18 demographic

[@SimoneBellomonte]

socmed circles? Also its not more prevalent in splatoons circles, and actually id argue that its less tbh but toxicity is everywhere, and splatoons is around average at worst imho, at least as far as youtubesherkrtrdzszh is concerned.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

Also, sadly its not even 13-18 peopleszh doings these “mistakes”, most of the time its just boomers and manchildren lol, basically terminally online ppl.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

But thats just my opinion.

[@VincentWhite]

Gem gives us not just Splatoon advice, but also Life Advice. Most of the times that people say "woah! Gem gave us great Dating advice!!", are reductive and missing the point. No, Gem didn't give us JUST dating advice- Gem gave us, in general, a good way to treat other people and be kind to ourselves and others. Gem isn't a perfect guy, no- BUT! Gem is a good community leader and an excellent role model. It is unsurprising that he's very good at his job as a Teacher. (unrelated, but I had to pause for a second when you said "If i ever publically shared a students work as an example of 'what not to do' id be reprimanded for inappropriate that is" I had to pause for a second. Genuinely, thank you for making me aware of something I now need to process in therapy, and letting me know little me was not the person in the wrong there.) Thank you Gem, more more excellent advice on how to be Kind and Help Others. A true Squid Priest of the church of Cod, LOL.

[@hnglbanana]

oh hey there rogue english teacher, great video as always

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

I feel like Gem is actually two people. One, a licensed therapist and the other a licensed english teacher. I know he says he majored in english and minored in psychology but i feel like it's more likely there's just two of him

[@SimoneBellomonte]

@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868Oh, i didnt know that he also knew psychology, but that now it makes perfect sense!

[@Psycho0Noob]

7:14 i know right ?? i guess it's that since most of the vocal community is younger people who unlike us adults don't really get the weight of what they say sometimes we all been teenagers that screwed up a lot beforehand so in a way i get it but it's crazy to me to constantly reply under a real person to remind them that they are infact gonna get fired bc they wrote a word wrong in a harmless tweet about the silly squid game :(

[@malcovich_games]

They have never been old enough to know the consequences of not having a job.

[@undefinederror40404]

Moments like these remind me of that quote, no idea where it's from, but something along the likes of that people are too comfortable being mean online while acting like that to someone's face might result in you getting punched. And if these people/kids also act this terribly in person, then that's another problem... that needs to be adressed... I hear it from teachers all the time, when I was in highschool the teachers were most often the unreasonable ones but now it seems to be getting turned around which is so strange 🤔 what do these kids be doing¿?

[@samuelturner6076]

​@@undefinederror40404I'm pretty sure the quote was from Mike Tyson.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

I was a teen and did some dumb shit too but never *THIS* bad, like i get that constant and targeted harassment is a britch, this is just stupidity more than age tbh, i mean 1 comment here was pointing out how even Dude was doing it.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

@@malcovich_gamesTheyll be soon enough.

[@Garomasta]

Not exactly the same since it doesn't involve a social media persona, but it's always rubbed me the wrong way in the Smash community when any annoyance regarding a hitbox or whatever is communicated with "this was coded by an intern". It feels like hitting down in a way.

[@SquinjaSpl]

he called out dude fr

[@nbtelethia6611]

Tbh I came to this channel for the splatoon info... But I've stayed for the genuinely insightful and useful life lessons. So many times I've clicked on a Squid School video not expecting anything more than some splatoon news, and then left with a feeling that I actually learned something incredibly useful and applicable and useful in my real life. So... thanks for all the lessons, haha

[@Xian1502]

In relation to this i think about how the stamper noveau was branded as neo stamper by splatdevs themself IN the game despite the noveau sticker clearly being on it. However, not only did ONLY the NA account operated by said intern get flak for it when they posted what they believed was correct (and “proven” to be so with the in game release by its name) , but when it was updated and changed silently in a patch later from neo splatana stamper to splatana stamper noveau, absolutely NO ONE mentioned it or even called that out to any degree. Further proving to me that people do NOT care about correction and simply want to publicly humiliate the social media rep who’s an easy target

[@supremekirb]

For the "drier tone" stuff specifically, it's not exactly a new trend. SRL used to be based on Tumblr, ran art competitions, and engaged with the community's posting as much as making their own. They slowed down doing that over S2, and dropped it entirely just before S3, with the account being now defunct. It's par for the course, and I suspect is probably due to internal shifts on handling promotion.

[@SimoneBellomonte]

Man i miss SRL being that way back on tumblr, tumblr really pulled a suicide move there lol.

[@Me_Myself_Maly]

I feel like people incessantly want to be apart of the conversation, but they can’t think of anything new to say. So they think of the most obvious thing about what they just saw (something that was probably already mentioned), and watch the likes flow in. I know I’m not the only one who’s seen those YT Short comments that gets thousands of likes by mentioning something that you’ve already seen 5 other comments mention.

[@beigejungle5712]

You see, this time instead of dating advice, this is parenting advice Either way i always loved this "intern" character, and I hope all this attention doesnt deter Nintendo or the employee(s) from continuing the way they would do tweets

[@be1tube]

I posted the same thing, not scrolling down first.😅

[@NaXEthan]

I think it's worth mentioning that a lot of people who run company social media accounts are not in fact interns. This is a lot of people's full-time jobs, so I can imagine it might frustrate a lot of them to be called "intern" constantly. In the case of Splatoon, I know people are referring to the fictional character, but I still think it's worth noting because this happens in other cases too

[@Breeze926]

I'm not so sure about people talking about the fictional character. A lot of it reads to me more like people talking to the Nintendo intern they believe is running the account.

[@NaXEthan]

@@Breeze926 that's probably true to an extent yeah. I think in the case of Splatoon it is a mix

[@copycatcay]

once again, Squid School teaches us life lessons instead of how to get good at the silly squid game (positive)

[@nesspyr]

i genuinely appreciate you using your platform to talk about things like this. bullies are rampant and real, even online

[@be1tube]

Don't feed your monster. (Especially after midnight.)

[@pheldsparr]

Refusing to read twitter continues to be a good decision.

[@maxjackson4530]

Honestly, the rotten tomato analogy fits really well with twitter because most of the time I see people argue with others for reasons that vary from topic to topic. Because of this, it's a main reason why I don't use twitter that much, even though I feel like it can be useful if you want to learn higher level players or just want to find people who play the same weapon as you.

[@This-Was-Sparta]

Great video. Love that point of examining your own anger. Trying to be more mindful of stuff like that myself and it has geuinely helped. I've surprised myself with how silly the triggers for those feelings can be at times.

[@rbarua3368]

I think it really needs to be understood by people the amount of trash that people can spew on the internet, and how meaningless listening to that is. On learned helplessness: I will say that keeping people out of learned helplessness with criticism while also seeking to make them improve is not the easiest thing. Ego can be a big impediment to progress, and in my school's marching band, I think one of the hardest balances my band director had to find was keeping the students' egos in check enough so that they could receive and implement the feedback, while also not having too much negative feedback that would demoralize the students and lower productivity. He understood that there is only so much negative feedback one can take before it stops becoming useful, but also that coddling to a certain point also slows improvement. The feedback we received was public, in front of all the other students in the band. Why I think it worked there was because if a certain student got called out, it didn't lead to a dogpile like on the internet because everyone else was there to fix their own mistakes and get better; they were in the same boat as that specific student. This even happened in an English class I took in High School. We actually did some form of peer reviewing essays, though the author remained anonymous. Obviously, this requires a lot of trust and maturity to be implemented well (that could not be universally present enough at the middle school age), but I would not call that a private environment, and I personally found it useful to learn about my writing from people other than a teacher.

[@o0Fizzle0o]

I was really hoping you'd make a video on this topic, so I'm extremely glad to see this. The constant dogpiling has been genuinely upsetting to see, and so many people are taking it way too far way too frequently. It just breeds toxicity; especially when some users seem to think of what I would call actual bullying as a "bit" and keep beating the dead horse because it's giving them engagement. They see a number go up and suddenly their brain turns off and they become a mindless machine trying to farm the exact same gag for those couple little dopamine hits without ever thinking of the actual environment that they're creating in the process. Anyway, your video sums up my exact thoughts perfectly so I'll leave it at that. Having a genuine mature voice in the community with actual reach is something that is really, really nice to have- so thank you for continuing to do what you do.

[@Cerbleur07]

Man, I'm between 'would be awesome be in Nintendo' s PR team, and the payment would be great' with the downside of managing thousands of manchildren arguing for a misstypo of a game targeted for young teens and not adults. Yeah yeah, I know, "shut up boomer", I got it. 😒

[@chrisgundry5480]

I’ll just pretend he got a promotion

[@NutyRiver]

13:15 I don’t know if them thinking they want to correct the behavior makes it any better though. If they want to correct a person’s behavior and argue that putting the person in stocks is the way to do it, then maayyybeee they actually just want to throw rotten tomatoes at them and just havent admitted it yet. I’ve seen this a lot online. Mocking and hurting people is looked down upon, so some people like to dress it up with “holding someone accountable” to make their actions acceptable. But imo it’s obvious when this is happening, because when it is there isn’t any effort to self reflect on whether the punishment actually does anything useful. Sometimes there’s even outward rejection of that self reflection.

[@ItzMiKeKirbY]

It’s a good metaphor for Splatoon 3’s in its lifespan. Awe inspiring outlook for what’s to come at the beginning to the realization that those aspirations never came to fruition; from colorful wonder to a monochromatic word document.

[@zombeeCAL]

i love your talk about learned helplessness and i think it applies to all life and not just the classroom too!!! hands down one of the best channels on youtube

[@snivyboy168]

9:33 Nice direct, Gem

[@Arktic06]

I thought the guy in the thumbnail was holding an L3 instead of a microphone

[@SpeedyDolphin27]

This video was incredibly raw and I appreciated it a lot. Twitter, specifically, is a huge echo chamber to target anybody for making any minor mistake, being amplified far too much to be helpful to anyone.

[@Rosellei]

It just kinda feels like they are trying to wrap up this game and get it over and done with, it sucks All these tweets recently has just felt so... dry

[@dewroot5176]

Ah, so THIS is the Custom Long Heavy Edit First Impressions video!

[@aeroon9991]

The further you dive into this issue, the more you come to wonder what the point of socializing even is... There are so many people on this planet, who are all able to interact with each other at any time, so much so that just about every conversation has been done before. By engaging in social media conversations at this point, you are just rehersing atop treaded ground. This thing was said 6 months ago, Or It's time to remind somebody that this event happened last summer. Humans do not share knowlede as a hive mind, and thus have a need to repeat things over and over in order to teach others. So like... what's the point in talking?

[@hallaloth3112]

I agree people took it too far. . . however I do question how an official account so regularly got things wrong. Like, how does one not have the information they are supposed to putting out publically directly in front of them? One error or two through the history of the game? Chalk it up to mistakes happen. . .consistently getting something wrong across so many updates? I have to wonder if the person running the account even cares about the material they are covering. Media presence in this day and age for companies in important. Consistently putting out false information regardless of how quickly it is corrected looks sloppy and like the media team doesn't care. Yeah, sure, we'll see the real kit in game when it releases. . .that isn't the point though. What happened to double checking your work before turning it in? In the sense of an official media presence. . .it feels like they are just doing a 'one and done' tweet without doing a single passover or checking what they are posting. Which seems completely unprofessional in the case of a sizable company who. . .in many other ways curates their media presence very carefully.

[@sethfeldpausch4337]

See your problem here is: you assume people act like human being on Twitter; they DON'T! Twitter is a place where even the most mild mannered of people act like absolute rage goblins and lol trolls, simply because that is what gets the most engagement! To tell dummies on social media to be mature is like telling the grass to turn magenta; it's not gonna happen!

[@atillakarman9298]

Gem i just love you for bringing this up. This topic goes way beyond splatoon as the same thing applies generally for so many things in life.

[@MysteriousStranger50]

The intern is now Google translate. Hence the MTL tier posts we are getting. Still kind of shocking how many mistakes they’ve made Still kind of sad we lost the charm of the squid research lab posts.

[@Marzianpack]

I do like the joking about the intern but yeah it's become a distraction from what i think is a real issue; that nintendo of america is really lacking attention to detail with splatoon's localization and publicity. We don't see such a huge discrepancy in other games' announcements. I have to wonder if it's related to how much new content we get regularly? There's something to be said about the way these mistakes contribute to a general distrust of the localization team especially for those of us who interact with the lore of the game more. It's easy to see these mistakes and second guess the accuracy of more important translations like those in story mode. the localization for this game has honestly been pretty decent aside from some Choices that were made prior to splatoon 3 that were carried over (captain/agent 3 being stinky lol) and some odd puns they decided to make. the issue with allowing the official social media account to make mistakes like these is not really about making sure to put out correct information about the new features, but about building trust and confidence in the localization team to give us a high quality localization in other areas, correctly characterize important characters and to make sure that there isn't a massive discrepancy in the way we experience the game in comparison to the Japanese speaking players. Sorry for the wall of text lol. TLDR; its about trust, not weapon kits.

[@MinunRobotnik4]

Was this dating advice? When the NA account missed a couple of days, I was slightly concerned that whoever was running the account was sick. If they were sick, I can't imagine coming back and making a mistake to be met with a torrent of people pointing out that mistake would have been very fun. I'd like to think I didn't feed that particular monster, but I have definitely fed other ones in the past for dumber reasons.

[@thequagiestsire]

Here’s my mega-ultra-hopium-not-gonna-happen-but-would-be-sick theory: The intern running the Splatoon Twitter account is a canonical Ink/Octoling in the game and were grayscaled by Order. My case for this is that it seemed that it was only after the release of Side Order that the personality in the tweets have faded for more basic descriptions. There will be an update to the game that will make you go into the Spire and restore their Palette. You can choose any main weapon out of the 12 Palettes, but you get no hacks throughout your run and the length and difficulty of the climb is much higher, with increased speed and HP from enemies, extra abilities or attacks from bosses like Overlorder using a Splattercolor Screen to temporarily disable your chips, and the floor amount being increased to 50 instead of the usual 30. Once a certain percentage of Side Order players completes this extra difficult “SRL’s Palette”, the Splatoon Twitter account will make an announcement that they don’t understand why, but they’ve suddenly been hit with a wave of energy and excitement, and make a massive comeback by personally revealing the release of third kits to the game with renewed vigor and their jokes we all love. Again, this will never happen and it’s likely just a real life intern being burnt out by expectations from higher ups and is just trying to meet their quota, but it would be really cool to add more explicit interaction between the game and the real world.

[@whiteninji352]

I see the bot comments still have free real estate

[@malcovich_games]

I reported even the “students” post.

[@undefinederror40404]

My YT says your post is 25 minutes old and I see no bots, seems at least most have been successfully removed 👍

[@Breeze926]

I think a lot of the people calling out "the inter" in this season's tweets aren't even talking about the SRL intern character. They read more like calling out a hypothetical Nintendo intern that would actually be in charge of the Nintendo account. On a semi-unrealted note, Dude's comments in particular felt hostile to me for what is a very minor mistake.

[@lewis9s]

Twitter being Twitter as usual… I’d be feeling pretty bad too if thousands of strangers ridiculed me for making a mistake, most people though wouldn’t understand that and throw their fits anyway.

[@MaidenOfAir]

4:02 Yep, definitely can’t just walk into a board meeting or anything. That hasn’t *ever* happened

[@frogmouth2]

This is what happens when you directly tie the Ingame posting feature to a website as rancid as twitter.

[@alexcrisman1954]

Point sensor pilled kit maxxer

[@anonnigiri9301]

i agree. i also dislike when people are very mean to certain people on the splatoon team like the producer Nogami. he has nothing to do with balance changes and people sometimes jokingly but not always- bully him

[@skunkooo]

we should be thankful they aren't using some garbage ai

[@noremfor]

Humans make mistakes, remember that.

[@SnoFitzroy]

A side detail that frustrates me with all this "intern" talk from the people joking about firings is like...the person running the social accounts isn't an intern, almost by definition? "Social Media Manager" is a PAID position in many if not most companies these days. Whoever made those erroneous posts isn't "just an intern" and absolutely is worthy of more respect, but also, unpaid interns (so, interns) are usually new to the field and absolutely are worthy of softer communication as they're literally still learning. Every time I see this backlash people have over social media errors, I can't feel anything but anger towards them. Like, the correct thing has been posted, shut up already! I'm gonna say it. What's happening to @SplatoonNA on Twitter is cancel culture. Or at least something similar to it.

[@RegularSammykid2]

Everyone makes mistakes

[@Sillybilly614]

We sacrificed an intern for a good season

[@edfreak9001]

you just know someone somewhere is watching this video about how it's wrong to rail on whatever random innocent person happened to make a harmless mistake, internalizes it enough to feel bad about their prior actions, and the response they come up with is going to be "Man this guy sucks, we should doxx him" The anonymous internet has bred a unique form of sociopathy.

[@guillermocervisalmeron2209]

Everyone: yeah i remember splatoon 3 by the kits Me: i remember splatoon 3 by the interns

[@Astra7Light]

I don't get how people could get angry or annoyed from this, it's a small mistake, we all make mistakes and can make mistakes, and for them to fix that mistake is great, we should be happy or thankful that they fixed it, instead of flaming that mistake

[@sonatty2407]

Now i feel bad because my tweet seems to have partially caused this round of Splatoon NA complaining and berating. I don't really mind the direct translations tbh

[@MugenCannon97]

real wallet droppers rise up✊✊✊

[@timm8o475]

the joking replies feel like just that- jokes. DUDE'S responses just felt vile to read, it was just harassment

[@MeltedSea]

DUDE’s responses were not that bad lol y’all so dramatic

[@JacobReynoldski]

so we all just gonna forget splatoon 3 latin america 😭

[@TeachSquid]

maybe i should switch out dude

[@TreeBranchStudios]

Completely off topic but I’d love to know the gear build those douser dualies had in the background gameplay cause it looked interesting

[@emillembertlora9721]

I loved this video

[@johndelanie3649]

This isn't weapon select

[@CalFox72]

It's very likely that they just switched the person running the account, I don't think a lot of people consider that

[@the_legendary_fire]

If it was just DUDE's comment alone it would be fine but getting the post community noted and spamming the comments telling them they're wrong was too far

[@mikul958]

DUDE's comments also got really patronizing as time went on. It started out pretty light-hearted but after the first 2 or 3 it just started getting downright mean.

[@idontneedachannelthanksyou7292]

At first I said: oh, that’s alright. I’m sure they have reasons to hold back and we have the jp translations anyway Now I’m saying: there’s a person behind this acc and they have feelings too

[@woahitsfranco5286]

my personal theory is that I think the “funny inturn” tweets have been delayed because they need to go through a process of some kind to be accepted before posting so thats why they are delayed. but currently since people are complaining so much, they’re trying to make more direct translations from JP instead to speed up the process.

[@SohakmetGameplay]

13:41 Close the video. You just summarized Twitter.

[@Stayfreshwoomy]

Im a splatoon player do you think I understand what any of this means 😭

[@MegaMashuuCl]

"One or more interns have been fired"

[@greatstaro9255]

There MUST always be a dude that translates all the japanese posts. Why there is no one that can translate properly to everyone? I always have the need to guess what the post is trying to tell us

[@marietrans8950]

Just another reason to ditch twitter

[@Devilcakes]

Guys please regard all instances of the social media team as being a group, rather than one person, please. Also who cares about point sensor. Honestly I'm sick and tired of the bombs and like the playstyles that aren't just meta.

[@CJBoxyeet]

Are people taking it seriously? I thought it was just a joke and nothing personal

[@globin3477]

This is the internet. People take EVERYTHING seriously.

[@CJBoxyeet]

@@globin3477 valid point why am i even questioning it lmao

[@HarpanW]

its not that deep

[@GNARMACHINE-oq1pu]

Abby middle?

[@lilacocto9103]

Oh wow, they made one small translation error and everybody is rising like an Angry Mob. Color me shocked.

[@PickPig]

hey i mean if posting misinformation on the splatoon NA twitter account brings more attention to the tweet then more power to them

[@szymexlapix835]

"monster inside of us" is crazy, bro thinks he is in blue lock

[@MFSHARTY]

I think its kinda funny... If its your job to post information, we gonna dawg on you if you continue to mess up😭

[@circuscorpse]

FIRST 30 SEOCONDS AGO OMG

[@general.catallion_8054]

1 minute ago!

[@threeprongedfork7061]

You beat the bots 👀

[@WitherSnow]

I think characterizing people who are genuinely upset as just wanting to throw rotten fruit is super bad faith. It's annoying to know that a kit you thought would be good is suddenly worse because of an error. I think if it were the difference between Fizzy Bomb and Splat Bomb not a lot of people would care. It's the fact that Ink Mine is so irredeemably awful that it makes this mistake way worse.

[@Sqwivig]

I feel like this video is missing some context. I don't spend my whole life on Twitter like you degens, which means I don't even know why people are upset. You mentioned there was a mistake with a sub weapon or something? But that doesn't tell me the whole story. Gem, PLEASE understand that not everyone is going to be in on what's happening. I have a real life and I don't really care about any of this crap. Just say "hey don't bully low level interns on the internet" and move on. You aren't going to change the bullies' minds anyway. No amount of asking them to be empathetic is going to change their behavior. Just condemn them and then ignore them. You making this video is just putting fuel on a fire. They WANT the attention. Don't give them the attention they are looking for. I don't really get why this video needed to be made, and why it's so long winded. I get it. Bullying is bad. You don't need to belabor the point.

[@This-Was-Sparta]

That's a lot of words for someone who claims to not care.

[@titaniumtogekiss]

never forget the pencil 5b tweet that shit was fire the real crime is this season is SRL Ballistics is gone :((