
Everybody loved him,’ one female employee said. ‘There was a male that was constantly making really gross jokes and comments, but he was the friend of everybody there. Some spoke of difficulty advancing their career from a contractor to a full-time employee – a situation which allegedly impacted women disproportionately – while others allege the company deployed a system of ‘favouritism’ that depended on courting favour with tenured employees. Kotaku spoke to ten individual sources for its story, with many sharing similar experiences.

She was allegedly warned to be less outspoken, and the employee in question was only assigned sexual harassment training. These comments were reported to management at Aerotek, the company that contracted testers for the Nintendo of America headquarters, but this ultimately led to the employee being blamed, shamed, and quitting her job.

Later, the same employee posted about why it was ‘okay’ to be sexually attracted to Paimon of Genshin Impact, a character that resembles a prepubescent child.

One female worker claimed that during their time at the company, they witnessed a man in the company-wide ‘Laughing Zone’ group chat post a meme about why Vaporean was the best Pokemon to have sex with – alongside intimate, explicit descriptions.
