Definitions by Meritocracy
Hellwhiner
An individual whose criticism of Helldivers2 went well beyond reason and devolved into throwing tantrums on social media and historically turned into campaigns of witchunts against the developers. Their outcries are usually led by content creators that never received much attention, but after making a negative video about the game, they realized farming hate and controversy brings more engagement than doing actually productive videos.
Usually comprised of people who never read patchnotes or lack reading comprehension to understand them and just blindly repeat things heard from their doomer gurus without actually testing them in-game. Hellwhiners will straight up lie if that would make their argument sound more dramatic. Hellwhiners get enraged after using words like "play smarter", "aim" or "adapt" against them in the discussion.
Hellwhiners and Glazedivers turned Helldivers2 community from being one of the nicest gaming communities in existance into one of the most toxic ones that actively hates the game and it's developers.
Usually comprised of people who never read patchnotes or lack reading comprehension to understand them and just blindly repeat things heard from their doomer gurus without actually testing them in-game. Hellwhiners will straight up lie if that would make their argument sound more dramatic. Hellwhiners get enraged after using words like "play smarter", "aim" or "adapt" against them in the discussion.
Hellwhiners and Glazedivers turned Helldivers2 community from being one of the nicest gaming communities in existance into one of the most toxic ones that actively hates the game and it's developers.
"Never nerf. Only buff."
"We just want for devs to respect us" Said the Hellwhiner after witchunting the developers.
"They nerfed every single thing in this game!" Said the Hellwhiner after 6 months of game receiving only buffs.
"This change makes the game completely unplayable" Said the Hellwhiner after very minor change that was not a straight up buff.
"We just want for devs to respect us" Said the Hellwhiner after witchunting the developers.
"They nerfed every single thing in this game!" Said the Hellwhiner after 6 months of game receiving only buffs.
"This change makes the game completely unplayable" Said the Hellwhiner after very minor change that was not a straight up buff.
Hellwhiner by Meritocracy May 7, 2026