Yu-Gi-Oh! Player Says Women Can’t Play and Then Loses to One
A pretty hilarious story went viral on Japanese Twitter after a Yu-Gi-Oh! player decided to make a statement about women who play Yu-Gi-Oh!
But fate had a massive plot twist waiting for him.
“Women Playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Just Doesn’t Work, Right?”
It all started on October 1, when a Yu-Gi-Oh! player’s account posted the following:
“Women playing Yu-Gi-Oh! just doesn’t work, right? Seriously, with a woman’s brain, there’s no way they can understand things like the Damage Step, and they can’t even process Chains in reverse order.”
For anyone who doesn’t follow the card game, Damage Step and Chains are important concepts in the rules of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and correctly understanding when certain effects can be activated and how a Chain resolves is part of what makes the game so complicated.
In other words, this guy basically decided to say that women aren’t capable of understanding the more complicated rules of Yu-Gi-Oh!
The post reached a LOT of people. Like, a LOT.
But I think it went even more viral because of what happened shortly afterward.
So… He Ended Up Playing Against a Woman
Well, here’s where things get interesting.
The player who made the comment participated in a Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament at a card shop, something that’s pretty common among card game players in countries like Japan and the United States.
And then something straight out of a comedy script happened. He ended up facing a woman in a duel.
And we only know this because another user decided to tell us what happened during that duel:
“The person who made this tweet lost to a woman in a duel.”
That’s it.
The second tweet, accompanied by a photo of the two players and the information that the original poster had lost to a woman, ended up getting practically the same amount of reach as the original tweet.
A lot of users took the opportunity to roast the player.
After all, saying that women can’t understand Yu-Gi-Oh! and then losing to a woman is one of those situations where you just have to accept that the universe has a sense of humor.
“He Let Her Go First…”
And the reactions from Japanese users were exactly what you’d expect from a situation like this.
One person commented:
“He was so chivalrous that he couldn’t go first against a woman… so he let her go first. What a man!”
Another user was even more brutal:
“They even took Yu-Gi-Oh! away from the man who couldn’t do anything else besides Yu-Gi-Oh!”
And some people didn’t even need to understand the card game to realize how embarrassing this was:
“I don’t understand Yu-Gi-Oh! at all, but I can definitely tell this is EXTREMELY embarrassing.”
Another simply summed it up:
“This is so damn embarrassing I’m dying.”
On his Twitter account, the player who said women weren’t cut out for playing Yu-Gi-Oh! didn’t deny that he lost. He said he was frustrated.
And Players Started Noticing Things in the Photo
But there was another curious detail.
Some users started pointing out that there were some strange things about the duel shown in the photo.
For example, one comment pointed out a card that players who started more recently don’t see very often:
“Shock Ruler… what a nostalgic sight. I’m dying.”
To be honest, I’m pretty rusty when it comes to Yu-Gi-Oh!
It’s been YEARS since I played, I don’t keep up with the newer cards, and I certainly don’t know all their current effects and interactions by heart.
So I’m not going to pretend I’m an expert and try to point out every weird detail on the field.
What I found more interesting, though, was seeing how the story ended up spreading beyond the Japanese community.
One user commented:
“Seeing him get absolutely roasted by foreigners makes me realize just how terrifyingly huge Yu-Gi-Oh! is as a worldwide franchise.”
Of course, losing a duel doesn’t automatically mean someone is a bad player. And it doesn’t mean the woman who won is better at everything, either.
But there’s a huge difference between losing a Yu-Gi-Oh! match and spending days saying that women can’t understand the game, only to then get defeated by a woman yourself.