At 6/19/23 04:03 PM, Magnedeus wrote: Wasn't part of it, but the Danganronpa community. I said it in another thread, but there are people there that will straight up doxx you if you don't like a certain character or if you ship two characters that they don't agree with. I seriously pity anyone that's still part of that fandom.

At 6/21/23 07:31 AM, CosmicPunked wrote: Oh you sweet summer children, were you ever in the Homestuck fandom at peak popularity? I was once on tumblr in the early days and ended up being mass cancelled by the the roleplay part of the fandom over on it.

Story tw: dub/non con mention, Eating Disorder sexualisation mention

So when I was 14 - 19 years old I used to RP as some Homestuck characters, which was a huge thing over on Tumblr, e.g people would make blogs writing as that character and others would reblog and respond like their character. I thought this was a great way to meet new people and mostly to get better at writing.

Well, a sub-group in the RP community at the time had made a sex slave RP alternate universe, they were recruiting for RPers to join the 'universe'. Where in said universe the HS canon kids were to be enslaved and entrusted into the guardians care (like the human kids had Bro Strider, Dad Egbert, etc and the troll kids had people like the condesce and GHB etc). The kids and troll kids who were 13 in canon would be passed around weekly on a slave rotation ring where they would proceed to be sexually abused by whoever 'owned' them that week.

Due to me being absolutely disgusted by this when I found out, I wrote a post saying that it's vile and those who associate with these kinds of people are enabling them. It kind of backfired on me, as when I posted that it turned out 90% of the people I had interacted with were also creepy weirdos also partaking in the AU on the downlow and it created a massive target on my back, keep in mind my age at the time.

Unfortunately for me they would begin to harass me across platforms, I have one person in particular who was very popular in the HS fandom stalk my blogs, going to the point of staking out whoever I interacted with and trying to quickly befriend them so I was left without any friends.

During the time I was still there after that, I tried my best to keep calling it out, just to bring awareness to new comers, nobody else was doing it. I found out they had created sexual fetish blogs sexualising eating disorders as well, it got to the point where this group of sickos were accusing me of being a cult leader, because I had friends who had experienced eating disorders also educating how harmful fetishization of ED's was.

Whoever was new in the community I tried my best to steer them away from the people I knew were vile, I didn't want them to have the same experience I did because it really wasn't good for my mental health to be told that rping incest and rape was just 'a means of people expressing themselves' and that promoting eating disorders was 'body positivity'. A lot of the new comers to the RP side of HS fandom were similar ages to the protagonists so this fanbase has always had a younger audience due to the young age of the protags, and it had become an incredibly dangerous place to enjoy it with as I had experienced.

One situation was awful, one of the newcomers ended up being baited into unfriending me and going with that group of people. As soon as they were baited, the people who mass cancelled me then began slowly ghosting them. This group of people were not only disgusting but using people, who were also teenagers as pawns to spy on another teenager. That person later re-added me just to say they were given promises of having fun RP's but ended up being ghosted and being told to spy on me, I wished them the best as I wasn't sure if they were still in contact with the others.

As time went on they still stalked me, I had friends block me out of nowhere and it turned out to be their doing. Like I said before these people had massive followers in the HS fandom and they still do. So many people blindly worship them because of their contributions to the fandom and it pains me because I know how disgusting they truly are. These people would sexualise eating disorders, stalk and mentally abuse young fans for their sickening means of spying.

These people are in a lot of power in the fandom, they can choose who participate in fan events and run a lot of things which help creators in the fandom gain an audience. When I was a growing artist and were on good terms with them they even tried to slyly imply that they could get me noticed. Well, a few years later and I'm not recognised as a big artist, my art doesn't even reach 500 followers but I like to think I kept my dignity, even if it meant losing out.

At 6/21/23 12:09 PM, BroSkullEmoji wrote:

At 6/18/23 10:34 PM, RCGCbro wrote:
Someone had to say it.

I wasn't a participant, but Steven Universe, ironic how the show is about loving people unconditionally but one time an artist almost commit not living bc some fuckers though it would be okay to send death and r word threaths to this artist just bc she drew a character slightly less chubby

Yeah, definetly a sane community, not a community with serious issues at all 💀

At 6/19/23 03:56 PM, wonkypaws wrote: seconding the fnf modding community. it’s simultaneously a huge comfort and anti-comfort for me lmao, ive loved it since i was 13 and i have lots of good memories associated with it, but at the same time, it’s incredibly toxic and somebody gets cancelled every other week (im not even exaggerating there. there was a point in time where i kept count, and every week there would be new drama & a new creator cancelled)
there were also large creators in that community that i formed parasocial relationships with, and they ended up being awful people (amoraltra & stickybm. iykyk) so while that was definitely not a good experience, it was a learning moment to not form parasocial relationships with grown men on the internet who don’t even know you exist. lmao

im also not sure if animal jam counts, but that game was my SHIT when i was younger. like, i shit you not, i considered myself not a human, but an animal within the world that the game takes place. i genuinely deluded myself into believing i was a fucking wolf on animal jam. that was fun

At 6/21/23 11:55 AM, Magnedeus wrote:

At 6/21/23 07:31 AM, CosmicPunked wrote: Oh you sweet summer children, were you ever in the Homestuck fandom at peak popularity? I was once on tumblr in the early days and ended up being mass cancelled by the the roleplay part of the fandom over on it.

Story tw: dub/non con mention, Eating Disorder sexualisation mention

So when I was 14 - 19 years old I used to RP as some Homestuck characters, which was a huge thing over on Tumblr, e.g people would make blogs writing as that character and others would reblog and respond like their character. I thought this was a great way to meet new people and mostly to get better at writing.

Well, a sub-group in the RP community at the time had made a sex slave RP alternate universe, they were recruiting for RPers to join the 'universe'. Where in said universe the HS canon kids were to be enslaved and entrusted into the guardians care (like the human kids had Bro Strider, Dad Egbert, etc and the troll kids had people like the condesce and GHB etc). The kids and troll kids who were 13 in canon would be passed around weekly on a slave rotation ring where they would proceed to be sexually abused by whoever 'owned' them that week.

Due to me being absolutely disgusted by this when I found out, I wrote a post saying that it's vile and those who associate with these kinds of people are enabling them. It kind of backfired on me, as when I posted that it turned out 90% of the people I had interacted with were also creepy weirdos also partaking in the AU on the downlow and it created a massive target on my back, keep in mind my age at the time.

Unfortunately for me they would begin to harass me across platforms, I have one person in particular who was very popular in the HS fandom stalk my blogs, going to the point of staking out whoever I interacted with and trying to quickly befriend them so I was left without any friends.

During the time I was still there after that, I tried my best to keep calling it out, just to bring awareness to new comers, nobody else was doing it. I found out they had created sexual fetish blogs sexualising eating disorders as well, it got to the point where this group of sickos were accusing me of being a cult leader, because I had friends who had experienced eating disorders also educating how harmful fetishization of ED's was.

Whoever was new in the community I tried my best to steer them away from the people I knew were vile, I didn't want them to have the same experience I did because it really wasn't good for my mental health to be told that rping incest and rape was just 'a means of people expressing themselves' and that promoting eating disorders was 'body positivity'. A lot of the new comers to the RP side of HS fandom were similar ages to the protagonists so this fanbase has always had a younger audience due to the young age of the protags, and it had become an incredibly dangerous place to enjoy it with as I had experienced.

One situation was awful, one of the newcomers ended up being baited into unfriending me and going with that group of people. As soon as they were baited, the people who mass cancelled me then began slowly ghosting them. This group of people were not only disgusting but using people, who were also teenagers as pawns to spy on another teenager. That person later re-added me just to say they were given promises of having fun RP's but ended up being ghosted and being told to spy on me, I wished them the best as I wasn't sure if they were still in contact with the others.

As time went on they still stalked me, I had friends block me out of nowhere and it turned out to be their doing. Like I said before these people had massive followers in the HS fandom and they still do. So many people blindly worship them because of their contributions to the fandom and it pains me because I know how disgusting they truly are. These people would sexualise eating disorders, stalk and mentally abuse young fans for their sickening means of spying.

These people are in a lot of power in the fandom, they can choose who participate in fan events and run a lot of things which help creators in the fandom gain an audience. When I was a growing artist and were on good terms with them they even tried to slyly imply that they could get me noticed. Well, a few years later and I'm not recognised as a big artist, my art doesn't even reach 500 followers but I like to think I kept my dignity, even if it meant losing out.

I know very little about Homestuck, but isn't that community full of tryhard edgelords that try to relate to the characters too hard that Homestuck itself just breeds toxicity?

At 6/22/23 01:58 PM, ikaroll wrote:

At 6/22/23 01:32 PM, Magnedeus wrote:

At 6/21/23 11:51 PM, ikaroll wrote: Every single one.

If you're going to play a game, try to ONLY play the game, and ignore the communities. You're better off for it.

Also, yeah. Splatoon community gives me a headache.

Kinda hard to ignore a community if said community comes after you when you did nothing wrong. When the said community has done the aforementioned doxxing, death threats, etc.

If you don't interact with the community in the first place, they won't come after you (i also don't even know which community you're referring to). Every single space on the internet has people that send death threats, it's sadly the truth of it orz.

At 6/22/23 08:36 PM, redfoxbennaton wrote: Furry fans, these people are like "we're not sexual. We're not sexual" Then they become sexual. Why would a teenager join a group of 40 year old gay dudes that dress up as animals? There where diaper guys everywhere. There was cub everywhere. On FA they where overwhelming but on DA and FB they where chill.

There where chill ones but nowadays all of them seem to be of brainwashed SJWs. The general make up of the furry fandom as they call it are quite cult like. Never have I felt such profound overwhelm than being around a furry fan. Someone who is a prodigy at age 13.
People who are sooo desperate to draw rule 34 of an animal character from childen's media. This could have meant I have outgrown it.
There are right wing furries. Which I am so confused this exists but it's there.
Now this may sound weird or nothing to you but it gets worse because they cause constant drama. Constant allegations of zoophilia and pedophilia. Racism and homophobia. Constant toxicity and callout culture.

iFunny and Google+ where full of Trump supporters and far rightists.Total Chuds that must have opinions on everything.

At 6/23/23 07:47 PM, chilicheesefritocat wrote:

At 6/21/23 07:31 AM, CosmicPunked wrote: Oh you sweet summer children, were you ever in the Homestuck fandom at peak popularity? I was once on tumblr in the early days and ended up being mass cancelled by the the roleplay part of the fandom over on it.

... As someone who only started reading a few months ago and stopped sometime after Act 3 and never got into the fandom myself.

I am so sorry for everything.

... If you ever need to talk about stuff just DM me.

At 6/24/23 01:47 PM, TheJayJay wrote:

At 6/18/23 10:34 PM, RCGCbro wrote:
Someone had to say it.

Well I'm currently into Linux and free-and-open-source software and both of those communities have quite a few crazies in them, but I'm not really "involved" in the community as such so I don't think that counts.

I will say I was into Yu-Gi-Oh! for most of my life and it eventually reached a point where I had to leave, partially because of how toxic and shitty the people can be, particularly in the competitive scene. Shame really because I still really like the game.

At 6/24/23 03:05 PM, Magnedeus wrote:

At 6/24/23 01:47 PM, TheJayJay wrote:

At 6/18/23 10:34 PM, RCGCbro wrote:
Someone had to say it.

Well I'm currently into Linux and free-and-open-source software and both of those communities have quite a few crazies in them, but I'm not really "involved" in the community as such so I don't think that counts.

I will say I was into Yu-Gi-Oh! for most of my life and it eventually reached a point where I had to leave, partially because of how toxic and shitty the people can be, particularly in the competitive scene. Shame really because I still really like the game.

I quit Yu-Gi-Oh because it became an incoherent mess of OTK decks, and it still is. People are still asking for a chat function in master duel to obviously spread the toxicity further.