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Inside the Genshin Impact community, "prune mentality" reveals how conspiracy thinking thrives in fandom — and why in-group belief systems resist facts so stubbornly.
Conspiracy TheoryIn-Group BiasProportionality BiasIllusory Pattern Perception
Theory Briefing
- Genshin Impact fans coined "prune mentality" to describe players who believe HoYoverse secretly nerfs or manipulates content against them.
- Conspiracy theory frameworks show that when people feel powerless against a large corporation, they construct hidden-enemy narratives to explain bad luck.
- The video argues this thinking is unfalsifiable — a hallmark of conspiratorial belief where any counter-evidence is absorbed as further proof of the plot.