If not that, it might just be the slowly spreading creep of deplatforming facing tech companies. Certainly other gaming companies have had to make similar concessions. Though perhaps the recent Chinese investment in the company by Tencent speaks to the warmer embrace of censorship and puritanical values. Many within the DDLC community point to the abundance of hate-instigating communities or groups that are a collection of video of people dying.
What has caused the new enforcement policy from the Reddit admins? Whose to say. Many are concerned not only about their future contribution to the DDLC community, as well as the status of their accounts given their previous submissions:
However, that isn’t to say that there isn’t an air of worry surrounding the situation.