Why Give Me the Lore, When I Only Asked for the Vibe?

Inner Chapter March 17, 2026 4 min read

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Vibe>Lore, and why Chinese youth increasingly want light IP, cheap, weird little guys with no homework, and what happens when a character shows up carrying too much story, too much author surrogation and not enough vibe