Following up from my previous post. Rather than painstakingly going through several dozen old twitter threads and subjecting myself to autistic brainrot, I'll just share these because it sums things up rather nicely.
Here was the response from the official Genshin twitter account. (
archive though I seriously doubt it's getting deleted anytime soon)
If you go through the thread, you'll notice a lot of people demanding for 2FA to be added and being outraged over game leakers getting attention instead. This is also a whole mass of rage and its own can of worms, so I'll save that discussion for another time. Just keep it in mind for the future.
One tweet in the replies contains the following video that highlights how the Genshin leakers responded. Basically they all pasted jailbars over their profile pics and made jokes to the effect of "Oh no I'm going to jail! I posted unfair Genshin Impact content! Teehee! ;P"
(I'll note that I've left this as is strictly for archive purposes, but I highly recommend that you mute it.)
Every single one of those twitter accounts that are still active are great places to go if you want to follow drama related to leaks.
Here's a tweet made by AE Entropy (
archive), a prominent "leaker" who is one of many that just lifts their content from Chinese social media and other leakers.
Note that at the time of writing, they still have a joke referencing the incident in their twitter bio. Also take note of how many twitter followers you can get just from swiping upcoming waifus from the Chinese and dangling them over the heads of horny Genshin fans like a carrot on a stick!
Final thing I'll point out from this thread since it's a great example and happened to be right there: Genshin leakers are extremely possessive over their drip fed content they steal and release, and often are at each other's throats over who gets credit for leaking the waifu first.
Two notable leakers that happened to be mentioned above,
Dimbreath and
Lumie, fall under the "shady beta access" category. Both regularly datamine and reverse engineer both current game versions and beta builds to get ahold of the anime waifus earlier than everyone else.
Lumie in particular typically mines character models, watermarks the images and will tweet shit like this to tease the 250k waifu simps that currently follow their account.