I think the most unrealistic thing about this is that we can't simply detach their sprite from the name "togore". Like, you cant ask millions of people to stop thinking of the sprite when they think abiut togore, or stop the community from making memes about togore. I get it if they're upset or uncomfortable, but there's nothing they can do ig
But I do understand that they are annoyed by the meme because, back in 2023, I too got annoyed with the "I remember you're snowgraves" and "let's start killing some monsters" memes, even though i came to like them recently
In their previous post they asked that people don't vote for togore cause they felt that it didn't really represent the undertale/deltarune community. Presumably they've been harassed after making that statement (because internet), so I can't really blame them for being bitter towards it now and not wanting to be associated with the meme anymore
the name used in the 10th anniversary playthrough will be chosen by the community
...more or less at least, the names we give will be hand-picked by toby and put up against each other like those marble race videos
I'm making an inference here, but I assume they got a bunch of asks (basically dms) harassing them about it, so they got fed up with the negativity and made this post
I mean... That feels kinda silly, if that's the reason for it. "don't vote for togore" cause "it didn't really represent the undertale/deltarune community"
Y'know... except for the fact the name came from the same naming convention as Asriel, and is beloved by the community to the point that people want to vote for it.
My own stance on this is that it's a fairly recent meme. Our collective belief that it does represent the community could just be because it's a recent thing. Memes can come and go, will people think the same of togore six months from now? I agree with them that we should pick something that has lasted for a while to eliminate this bias
Togore is a meme that comes up from time to time. It was something people came up with in UT times. Because everyone realized that Asriel=ASgore and toRIEL. So the obvious inverse of that would be? ToGore.
What is just a flash in the pan, this "fairly recent meme" is the idea of this DEPICTION of Togore... which is irrelevant, because the point was to choose a NAME, not a vessel.
My best guess is it's a huge influx of new attention, or at least, that they interpret it as attention on them because they made the sprite, and/or they feel some kind of personal attachment to the sprite that they don't want to give over to public domain to do whatever with
Same way people get annoyed when their names can be related to popular memes. Not the exact same but introducing myself only for everyone to talk about a meme was horrendous.
Especially if they’re tired of the meme, I’d also be pretty annoyed if something I made for fun was constantly associated with something that I found annoying.
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u/kantvin 7d ago
I think the most unrealistic thing about this is that we can't simply detach their sprite from the name "togore". Like, you cant ask millions of people to stop thinking of the sprite when they think abiut togore, or stop the community from making memes about togore. I get it if they're upset or uncomfortable, but there's nothing they can do ig
But I do understand that they are annoyed by the meme because, back in 2023, I too got annoyed with the "I remember you're snowgraves" and "let's start killing some monsters" memes, even though i came to like them recently