we were suprirsed by how viscious the original backlash for a simple harmless joke was. TBF though its not just mints hints, we've noticed that like, all the horror community 'not the devs but the active commenting folks' have become toxic AF on itch in the past two years. Zero idea how that happened, but we began noticing it with Dr.nose and the uh... wow the attacks they suffered. It would almost seem like the trolls are hanging out around horror games waiting to cause trouble.
The problem is that dr.nose is an sfw dev, and we are an nfsw dev. Itch doesn't like to help nfsw devs much