>>69794970There are better breakdowns on youtube but the really short version is:
>Korea has its own equivalent of 4chan where men post memes, many of them about hating women because they can't get laid>one day in 2015 women invade koreachan en-masse and flood it with man hate and countermemes >during this time the pinching emoji becomes a common shitpost, representing korean men's dicks being tiny>the invasion force becomes known as Megalia after some feminist novel >order is eventually restored after weeks of shitposting, but the pinching gesture now eternally haunts the mind of korean dudes>numerous games and anime have to censored if they contain any frame of a girl with her hand in a c-like position, artists and voice actresses suspected of being pro-megalia are witch hunted online and some publicly fired in response to online mob threats >many big names in the entertainment industry and politics express support for megalia and the people being witch hunted by anti-megalians, bringing the conflict up from weeb game drama to actual national politics >as of 2022 the gender divide is actually considered a core political issue, as the current SK president was elected running primarily on antifem rhetoric and a policy of dismantling gender equality institutions 