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Can you imagine an entire country getting mad at someone for trolling them?

Astrucgate, known formally as the 2018-20 Miraculous scandal, was a controversy surrounding Thomas Astruc's reputation in Intenolia, involving a 2018 episode of the French TV series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.

The incident started on June 4, 2018 when the episode Malicenolian was discovered by various Intenolian internet personalities. This sparked a national panic over concerns that this might have been intended for the purpose of mocking without any explained reason, until show creator Thomas Astruc came forward and admitted that he was just trolling around, and for that reason, refused to pull the episode from airing in Intenolia.

The panic turned into protests that lobbied for Miraculous to be cancelled...albeit not so abruptly. They wanted the special bad ending episode from Indonesia (which, at the time, was under the rule of President Jusuf Kalla, who was mocked as the so-called "Jair Bolsonaro of Asia".) to be aired on CHBKids to have the series pulled once and for all.

On February 29th 2020, the episode, an edit of the episode Ikari-Gozen with an alternate ending, was aired, and CHB announced after that that it would no longer be airing the series, to much rejoicing nationwide.

Governor-General George Tay and Prime Minister Tyson Zimmer weren't all that happy, but they respected the people's decision anyway. A few days later, Thomas Astruc had to be banned from entering Intenolia for safety reasons. Some people took it for something else, saying that Astruc had become unwelcome in the country.

To this day, Miraculous, although some still despise it, has become the butt of jokes in the country, being mocked and ridiculed and bashed on as revenge for its mockery.

And you thought it was over? No, there's a lot more stories to tell. Because when Funhouse publicly announced their support of Astruc's refusal to pull the episode, they started targeting Funhouse by having the country's top animators animate unofficial bad endings to their series, including Trick Moon and George Carlton.

Then Disney Channel Asia and Cartoon Network Asia announced that they would start airing Miraculous Ladybug. Guess what? They did the same thing to these channels that they did to Funhouse. Ever since, the three channels have since been bashed on by Intenolians non-stop for their decision to support Astruc one way or another.