#Dolphin and R/axis are prominent examples - though to be clear that is NOT an endorsement to harass them in any way
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butwhatifidothis · 2 years ago
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I am curious, I've been watching the discourse going on for a bit without getting involved and at this point I feel like I have to ask.
What is the desired result here? Why are you engaging in the discourse at all? Clearly this is not a discussion, so what do you gain from interacting at all?
(I will send this to several people, just out of curiosity)
For me personally I got involved because seeing all this go down without saying anything was driving me bonkers, mostly since I wasn't seeing pretty much ANYONE say anything against some of the asinine shit being flung around. It gave me a lot of flashbacks to the Bleach fandom, as I've talked about here and there before, and I actually never got involved with any of the discourse there. With that I just saw all the shit being said and Felt Ass. I just... didn't interact with the fandom much after a point until years later, which wasn't really that fun! So I made it a point to not do that here, with a game I do genuinely love (even with all my bullying of it lol) - I wanted to share my thoughts, vent them out, all that.
Shining a harsh light on some of the prevalent attitudes being accepted in certain corners of the fandom also had other people start feeling better knowing they weren't the only ones uhhh Not Appreciative of some of the rhetoric going around uncontested. Seeing that I'd kinda bumble-fucked my way into helping other people enjoy the game, ngl, was (and still very much is) nice. I've even been told that I've helped manage to make the game bearable again for some, and that's great.
So for me, I guess that's mostly the "end-goal" so to speak; to let people know that the apologetics and mmm Problematic Sentiments isn't acceptable, and to hopefully better the moods of people sick of hearing this. Mind, a lot of it is ALSO me loving to rant and rave, which feels a LOT better for me personally than just sitting back and saying nothing - this is far from a completely selfless endeavor lmaooo. But I'd also be lying if I said that making people feel better wasn't a big part of it too
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