Wild Rift Producer Responds to Backlash over Alleged AI Anniversary Video Posted to Weibo

Wild Rift producer responds to backlash over alleged AI anniversary video posted to Weibo

Wild Rift exec David Xu acknowledges anniversary video “did not hit the mark” after fan backlash on Weibo.

League of Legends: Wild Rift Backlash Ignites After Fans Call Out ‘Fever Dream’ AI Trailer

UPDATE Aug. 5 2025: Riot Games has published a statement regarding the controversial League of Legends: Wild Rift anniversary video published on Weibo yesterday.Wild Rift Executive Producer David Xu took to X/Twitter to tackle concerns about the video's quality and origins. The message says the "creator-made" video "did not hit the mark" but does not directly address concerns about how Riot may use artificial intelligence to develop marketing ma…

League of Legends: Wild Rift exec producer says AI slop-looking anniversary video "did not hit the mark"

League of Legends: Wild Rift executive producer David Xu has said Riot "can and will do better," after sharing an anniversary video to the game's account on Chinese social media site Weibo that very much looks to be AI slop. However, Xu hasn't confirmed that the video did use AI in this sort-of-apology, instead claiming this was a "creator-made" video that'd found its way onto the League of Legends' spin-off's official channels.

League of Legends: Wild Rift Drops AI Trailer Celebrating Third Year (Everyone Disliked That)

League of Legends: Wild Rift released a generative AI trailer to promote the game’s third anniversary earlier this week. The trailer has since been removed due to significant fan backlash. Riot Games and parent company Tencent have come under fire this week after the company published an AI-generated trailer for its game League of Legends: Wild Rift. The video was officially posted on Wild Rift China’s Weibo account, celebrating Wild Rift‘s thir…

League Of Legends: Wild Rift Dropped An AI Spawned Anniversary Cinematic And It Is Hilariously Awful

At a time where gaming news is often depressingly grim, sometimes it can also have a twist: being depressingly grim, but in a HILARIOUS way. Your heart hurts, but so do your sides from laughing – if you catch my drift. That is the case today, where Tencent in China released a cinematic to celebrate the third anniversary of League of Legends: Wild Rift (the mobile-based ‘lite’ version of League of Legends) and you better believe it is entirely AI…

League of Legends' very bad year continues as Riot pulls sloppy AI video offline amid fan criticism: "WTF how is this real"

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