Every gacha fandom reaction to new character reveals

Satire of gacha fandom overhyping unreleased characters to unrealistic standards then getting upset at normal reveals

This is a 4-panel satirical comic mocking common behavior in gacha game fandoms. The top left panel shows a developer teasing an upcoming new character with only a silhouette shown. The top right panel displays a series of increasingly absurd, overhyped fan theories about the character, including claims it will have a unique combat system, be evil, elementless, have multiple fire-breathing heads, and shoot fire from its eyes and lightning from its rear. The bottom left panel reveals the actual character: a standard, generic quirky anime-style waifu with a normal scythe weapon and standard elemental powers, with text noting this is exactly what people should have expected. The bottom right panel shows a crying, enraged stick figure fan yelling that the developers lied, with a sad violin audio cue icon to emphasize their overblown disappointment.

This is an original user-created meme shared on the Reddit Meme subreddit, sourced via RSS. The original poster confirmed that they created both the character art and the comic themselves, referencing widely recognized common tropes across most popular gacha game communities such as Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, and Arknights where fans regularly overhype unreleased characters to impossible standards then react negatively when the final release is standard.