I think that's because everyone started calling the main gf 'Duckface' and BD was upset and decided to give all the girls that type of face. So, blame them. He also coded it into the game itself so if you try to name her that, you'd get a screen where Shawna is comforting her and they're both crying. So, again, blame them.
Calling Jamie duckface was an ongoing joke that fans of the game took part in. The Cult of Bailey, myself, and many others. Even BD himself sometimes. This dates all the way back to when the game first started.
He did that stuff to troll and be a contrarian. Both as a laugh for fans of the game, and people who legitimately didn't like the duckfaces.
He didn't have to let the forum impact the game, but he did, because he thought it was funny.
Looking back, it was probably a red flag that was missed. If you're serious about your game, letting this forum have impact on it's development isn't a good idea. Even if 90% of the duckface comments were good-natured back then.
And even more so, probably shows that he didn't expect the game to get this popular. The duckface stuff started back when this thread only had like 50 pages of comments. It blew up out of seemingly nowhere and, well, now we're here.
The bold: He actually got that idea from someone here.
That's actually such a good idea. If I ever have some free time I'll absolutely do it.
Also I don't take it personally at all. I just like to poke fun back at it. Like I'll threaten to ban people in my discord if they say it... but I never actually would. (Don't tell them that
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Now that's not to say that I enjoy it, but I know you're just having fun with it.
There are some people who take it a little too far... like if every one of your posts here include it or you were to constantly bring it up and joke about it. Then it would get a bit annoying. There's also the people who say very nice things to me here or in dms and then go into other threads or discords and shit talk my characters. But you're not one of those.