“What happened to your Pantalone / Dottore Reddit posts?”
I posted about real-world history Genshin Impact bases character designs on. Ancient cultures, figures, languages, etc. Many folks were supportive. Unfortunately, the Genshin Impact community lived up to its toxic reputation, and Subreddit mods chose not to address it. I decided my mental health was more important than tip-toeing around scary-ass people, and deleted everything. Here’s the longer version of what happened, for those interested.
Please don’t read if su*cide or racism are triggering topics for you.
1. A popular PantaloneMains poster spent months threatening to hurt themselves, talking about the “blood dripping” from their wrists because I posted about the influences/history behind Pantalone’s character. They also started posting that they wanted to be assaulted/m*rdered because of me in r/su*cide.
I lost a sibling to su*cide. I don’t appreciate people manipulating me with threats, so I cut them off. When I blocked them, they made a new account, waited until I made a 2nd post, read it, and started posting graphic threats again. I blocked them a 2nd time, so they made a 3rd alt and used it to follow me.
A friend and I put 2 and 2 together, checked timestamps, and discovered the suicide threats and abusive/harassing behavior started every time anyone new posted a theory on the PantaloneMains subreddit. We also learned this user harassed at least 2 other users in DMs for things like… Not following their other social media accounts, or not commenting on and “liking” their posts. They also publicly attacked another theorizer on PantaloneMains, spammed stolen leaks without spoiler tags or sources for attention, and pretended to be a native CN speaker to incorrectly correct us on traditional translations.
This user was getting upset with anyone whose info/theory took attention away from them, or contradicted their premiere, racist “Pantalone is a lizard person” theory. Their posts were offensive nonsense based on anti-semitism. But folks from the sub pressured me to include their lizard-person theory as a “poor possibility” in my later posts to protect myself from being guilt-tripped/harassed yet again. In the end, I deleted that garbage. I’m tired of people insisting I tolerate others intolerance towards my community to protect myself.
PantaloneMains mods claimed they couldn’t do anything about any of it, because only *some* of the abusive behavior took place directly on their subreddit. That said, I checked their feed, and they let this person post the lizard-person theory for 7+ months with 0 consequences. That’s telling.
2. Let’s move on to the several people who went out of their way to bash and harass me solely for the length of my posts. Some folks from the Genshin Lore subreddit were so upset my historical posts were longer than a paragraph that they: Accused me of being an addict, accused me of being an AI / karma farming bot, threatened me privately, and told me to die. The poor mods had a hell of a time banning them. Special thanks to the dedicated person(s) who made accounts with numerous variations of “sykbackwards” as their usernames. Anonymous harassment on Reddit is a stereotype I understand, now.
3. Other “content creators” copied and pasted the contents of my posts to use - claiming credit. Soon after my posts went up, the contents were spammed all over other social media. One girl spammed the Pantalone and Rouran Wiki sections with my reasoning right after finding my post, pretending she theorized it for clout. Another went to Tumblr, having copied and pasted the entire writing/images and formatting verbatim, asking for people to buy her coffee. And it goes on… 😒
The last straw? Discovering a video of a popular Genshin TikToker reading chunks of my and 2 other users collaborative Pantalone/Dottore history post, word-for-word, pretending it was her hot new theory. We spent 2 months researching and writing it. She dropped a Cashapp link for “her” efforts. Our post had been up for less than a day when she stole it. I suspect “content creators” like her are vultures hanging around the lore/theory subs for writing to sell, now. Many of the folks who did things like this made it a point to crop out my username from images I spent hours creating/editing, and omit the original post link, so they knew what they were pulling.
Meanwhile, people who hunted down my original posts on Reddit went off on for me “spoiling” Pantalone, assuming I was the one behind the spamming.
It would be one thing if these events had been sporadic/isolated, but this sort of drama was happening every other week… Despite only actually posting 3x in 6 months. 3 posts in 6 months, and absolutely stunning levels of continued aggression/dishonesty from the fans compared to… Every other platform and gaming community I’ve ever engaged with. I couldn’t visit Reddit without finding a new nasty comment or DM from a Genshin player, and eventually had to turn DMs off.
“Will you be posting again?”
Nope! I’m disabled, learning about and sharing the background history/cultural inspirations (like Siroe, Heraclius, the Rouran Khaganate and Avars, etc) was a lovely hobby to cope with physical pain. Educating people on this stuff is fun and important. When it stopped being a fun and valued effort, and started being “walking on eggshells around unstable racists while being stolen from and harassed,” I was done.
I deeply appreciate the folks who were supportive, respectful, and collaborative. The community overall, however, is too aggressive to safely interact with.
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Hidden Flower
Chapters: 1/1, 4.6k
Fandom: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Baizhu/Gorou
Characters: Gorou, Baizhu as Rouran, Background & Cameo Characters
Additional Tags: Mating Cycles/In Heat, Secret Identity, Sex Work, Anal Sex, Knotting
Series: Part 3 of Aewin's Baizhu Week 2022
Gorou's rut comes on while he's serving as ambassador to Liyue, but it shouldn't be a problem. All he has to do is go to the pharmacy to grab some suppressants, and he'll be fine. Right?
Unfortunately, the doctor is currently away at his second job with no supplies on hand. (And the job isn't what Gorou expected at all.)
Fortunately, that nature of said job places him in the perfect position to give Gorou a hand regardless.
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Ship Bias for zachariah,larana, kazuko and shibusawa????
Ship Bias // Accepting!
Zachariah:
- Zach/Varka (I don't write this with anyone but WOOO LOVE IT.)
- Zach/Hydro Archon
- Zach/Zhongli
(Outside of Genshin)
- Zach/Chitose Kizuki (With my partner- that's his wIFE....)
Larana:
- (Familial) Lara & Alison
- (Platonic) Lara & Collei
- Lara/Cyno
- Lara/Lisa
- Lara/Beidou
I have...SO MANY for her cause her personality meshes well with SO many characters....
Kazuko:
- Kazuko/Zhongli (@/nxvellati)
- Kazuko/Rouran[Pearl Galley owner]
- (Platonic/Familial) Kazuko & Kazuha
NOT a ton for her but!!
Shibusawa:
- Shibunari (With my partner! THAT IS HIS ONLY SHIP AND AKINARI IS HIS WIFE.)
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