The mobile gacha game Arknights has altered a character to remove a hand gesture associated with the anti-LGBT radical feminist group Megalia.

Jessica the Liberated is a unit in Arknights announced late last year. In her original artwork, you can see her right hand running along her hair while she makes a seemingly accidental pinching gesture, bringing her forefinger and thumb together.

The new artwork has her hand pulled away from her hair with a more natural looking pose. You can see both versions side-by-side below. (Original is on the left, new artwork is on the right).

Mobile games have been the focus of Korean feminists in recent years. Late last year they bullied a Japanese artist for Blue Archive off of Twitter.

You may be wondering what the pinching gesture means exactly, in Korea the gesture is associated with the defunct feminist group Megalia. Megalia is largely known for doxxing men and gleefully sharing images of botched circumcision for their own enjoyment.

The pinching symbol is meant to represent mocking the size of men’s genitalia. In a response to Megalia, game studios and fans became hyper-critical of artwork that contain the pinching gesture on the chance it could be a dog-whistle for Megalians.

Megalia as a site has not existed since 2017 after site moderators implemented rules against homophobic posts. This caused a majority of the userbase to fraction off into their own more extreme websites and groups. Posts outing and doxxing gay men (especially men married to women) was and still is a popular past-time in these groups.

After the character was changed, there was a quick response from western feminists spamming the new announcement with the pinching emoji.

Many of the responders ironically have gender neutral pronouns or self-identify as “non-binary” in their bio, implying they either don’t know or don’t care about the symbol’s anti-LGBT origins.