#twitterbelial

[icharchivist]

in my activity i see people whom i don’t think know gbf liking the “Belial has a twitter account now” posts, and while it’s likely you still know by extension bc i don’t shut up about Belial, let me be clear that the gbf twitter situation right now of having an employee at cygames roleplaying as Belial and being flirty and sexual with the audience is meant to be roleplaying this guy:

we’re all having a moment.

so consider it when i post stuff like 

we’re really, really, all having a moment.

[icharchivist]

HELP.

[icharchivist]

... so Apparently Cygames launched an official account for Belial to promote the shopping sections of the Festivals. So roleplaying as Belial

why is that the bio they went with i’m going to lose my fucking mind

[icharchivist]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Belial is also the only case I've seen (in granblue) where a character gets this poplar this fast.

And it's not like he fell from popularity with the years either, if anything it's stronger than ever.

Sometimes I wonder if cygames fears what they created

You're totally correct!

Like, i think there has been characters who got extremely popular real quick - some that comes to mind are like, Carro or Nehan for exemple.

But Belial is completely on another level. First, the fact that his popularity totally broke out from the gbf fandom. The amount of people who can say they started gbf because of Belial, especially in 2018, is staggering, i genuinely can't think of any charas who had this much of a following at once. Second, that indeed, he's still extremely popular, even more so than ever before. Even for charas i would think got really popular after one event, they usually fade out from people's mind a few months later. But him? Still there and kicking and it's been years!!

I think Lucilius can come close because people have been also going insane about him, but i genuinely don't think he has as much impact as Belial.

Similarly i'm thinking about GBVS only people's reaction to Belial. I remember seeing videos of people who were only familiar with VS, discovering Belial with the trailer, and losing their mind because he looked so cool. There's still a huge amount of people nowadays who start GBVS only for Belial, with no prior knowledge of GBF.

It's still going so damn strong after all these years, Belial just really attract anyone in his orbit.

Honestly i think cygames must be afraid. And perhaps also a little mad at themselves at how they ended 000 in a way to keep Belial out of the skyrealm because now, anything they'd do to bring him back would feel weird. Like, yes 000 is a perfect satisfactory ending to the saga! But what do we do now to still use the power of Mister McPopular?

I wonder how much they just, wanted to wrap up the wmtsb saga and move on, but now they can't because Belial brings them too much money to ignore.

Now we just have to see if they'll ever bring him back regardless at this point. Maybe since they put The Maydays, which introduced a possible way to bring him back, into the sidestories and therefore, accessible, means they might start to consider it.

But for now.... man. what a guy. Truly changed the direction of the game so sharply didn't he

[icharchivist]

this is killing me this is killing me this is killing me please help

[icharchivist]

He's tweeting about Sariel now... 😭

[icharchivist]

PLEASE HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

[icharchivist]

Cygames sure know their fanbase with that Belial account I'm losing my mind for real

GOD DAMN MOOD HERE NONNY 🤝🤝

They know us SO well and they're targetting us SO well and it's just??? why would you do thaT???

Belial: is devoted to a fault to Faasan, loves him beyond any possible feelings imaginable

The Whole Fanbase: falls for him

The Devs:

Belial now: anyway he also wants to have sex with YOU the audience wink wink wink

insane marketting behavior i'm losing my mind too, god.

[icharchivist]

GOD FOR REAL.

Especially since Belial wasn't even planned originally???? they mentioned that they had a major writer block for wmtsb2 and they didn't know where to go from here (something also about how they didn't expect Sandalphon to be this popular so they didn't know how to write the next part of the story to bring him back and redeem him).

And so, eventually, when they created Belial, it was an attempt at going around a writer block. And they went on to say that it's the riskiest thing they did, that they were pushing the limits of what they thought was acceptable at the time.

The fact not only Belial worked, but became this popular, encouraged them to take more risks and it's why now we have much more disturbing stories in Granblue and all.

But most importantly, why we're here. Watching marketting and flirting roleplaying.

Because, once upon a time in 2018 some writers had a writer block and now it's Everyone's problem.

The domino meme is the perfect illustration of it, thank you for sending!

[icharchivist]

I honestly also forgot he was supposed to promote merch (even opened a q&a form to send questions) because this is so insane cygames hit the jackpot here with us and the horny fallen angel

Someone should do a study about how crazy granblue players are when it comes to this man

🤝🤝🤝 we saw One Horny Angel thirsttrapping us online and we become oblivious to ads. Like "that's not an ad that's Belial asking me out on a date". Genuinely never seen a marketting ploy works as well as this. Me who hates ads in general, i'm just thrilled like, yes, go ahead, try to sell to me your stuff by having our jester angel flirt with us, do it again.

And god, honestly, yeah.

there's already so much to say as in general related to granblue (this thread comes to mind) but when you think about BELIAL in particular, there's just so much. We're just constantly losing our mind when he's around. See also how we got Belial to trend and break servers everytime he gets a new summon, or when he became playable on GBVS, or when his Cosplayer was announced. Every single time something happens with Belial, we go insane. Hell, we went insane when the first Belial Corner Shop was shown too!

this is no exception. Belial holds us by the throat and there's no escape. HElp us.

[icharchivist]

it’s been like that since yesterday please save us

how many times has he been trending this year only 😭😭

[icharchivist]

STOPPPPPPPPPPPP

i’ve seen people joke about how “ahah the intern who has to be in charge of the twitter must be so mad like they’re probably getting so many thirstmail they didn’t want to have to deal with” meanwhile i’m sure the guy is just having a blast because they can be crude like that and everyone would just reply “ahah classic Belial!”

[icharchivist]

I can’t post every tweets, turns out Twitter!Belial is an attention whore who is tweeting all the time, and he’s flirting with the audience all the time i’m going to get a heartattack. I can’t keep living like this.

[icharchivist]

the more the Belial twitter uses the sentence “well that’s a lie” i have to remember that when i say “my type is characters who lie all the time” it means Belial is right up there with Gentaro and Chikage and i have to deal with it.

[icharchivist]

THE ABSOLUTE BALLS OF THE DEVELOPPERS FOR FLIRTING WITH THE BELIAL TWITTER ACCOUNT

[icharchivist]

Belial getting 34k votes on that twt pool is insane this has to be cygames most brilliant idea to date

HONESTLY.

This is so wild like. The account has been up for two days. It's supposed to exist to promote merch.

so far it promoted 2 glass merch (not only i forgot about the fact it was marketting, but i also thought upon seeing the glass pictures, as Belial was just talking about drinking some alcohol "alone, but would love to do it in your company", that it was so on brand for Belial that it was part of roleplaying. I totally forgot the account EXISTS to pROMOTE THAT i was just that into this little twitter fictional world)

meanwhile else, it's just. "Belial in Shibuya taking pictures of ants and of the local aquarium, reminding you to keep your social distance and reminding you health protocol about covid"

all of that, while, also, saying every tweets, that he wants to fuck the audience.

and we're EATING IT UP. We're all here, following it, answering to his thirsttraps.

And it just kills me that like. The marketting roleplaying account made a jokey poll about whenever the audience would like to sleep with him, and 34k OF US turned in to express ourselves. And while "calling the police" won, there was still a STRONG 33% OF PEOPLE WANTING TO FUCK HIM.

And all of that to promote merch. This is insane. This is so funny.

Belial truly gets everything except a playable unit and we're eating it up because "omg it's Belial granblue tweeting", we're hopeless. It's hilarious. Thank you cygames for the fun of it all.