/soy/ - Soyjaks

If the 2018 freeware RPG Maker game Morimiya Middle School Shooting had its premise altered to focus on throwing feces and targeting Black people using racial slurs, it would change from a highly controversial, obscure indie game into an explicitly classified digital hate crime/hate speech incident.
The real-world impacts of such a hypothetical scenario would include:

1. Legal Violations and Immediate Deplatforming

The current game is hosted on niche indie hosting platforms and cataloged on community wikis like TV Tropes or the RPG Maker Wiki. If modified to include explicit racial slurs and targeted racial harassment:
• Immediate Removal: Free hosting platforms (like itch.io, GitHub, or independent forums) would permanently remove the project and ban the developer's account for violating global Terms of Service regarding hate speech and targeted harassment.
• Wiki Purges: Documentation of the game would be entirely wiped from mainstream gaming databases and community wikis under strict zero-tolerance policies for hate propaganda.

2. Shift in Real-World Legal Status

While the original game mimics real-world tragedy (inspired by titles like Postal and Hatred) through an edgy, fictionalized Japanese school setting, shifting the focus to real-world racial targeting elevates the legal severity:
• Hate Incident / Hate Crime: Law enforcement and international watchdog groups track digital software designed specifically to incite racial violence or harass an identifiable group.
• Developer Exposure: If the developer were operating in a country with strict hate speech legislation (such as Germany, the UK, or Canada), they could face severe civil penalties or criminal prosecution for public incitement and producing discriminatory material.

3. Community Rejection

The existing player base for extreme indie games or "reverse horror" simulations usually tolerates over-the-top, fictionalized violence. However, adding overt, low-effort racial slurs and defecation themes strips away any "edgy crime thriller" pretense. The game would immediately lose its niche audience, be universally rejected by the broader gaming community, and become entirely unsharable on mainstream internet networks.