#like that stupid Do Not Go In The Bog twitter thread

[eternalgirlscout]

funniest era on this website was when people would repeat completely pragmatic advice about existing near natural spaces as if it was cool aesthetic superstition. ooh they say you should never walk by large bodies of water alone at night well you see there's an evil spirit known as "not being able to see where you're going" that can cause a little-known phenomenon called "drowning." locals in a rural place know if you hear strange noises in the woods you ignore them if you know what's good for you yeah bitch there's coyotes

[toaarcan]

I hate to tell you this, but those arguments took place on the TTV boards, which were overwhelmingly pro-contest. They were so pro-contest that Eljay, who doesn’t really engage with the fandom outside of the boards, Twitter, and maybe the YouTube comments section on TTV’s own videos, earnestly believed that there were like... ten people who genuinely wanted them to stop.

The Anti-contest crowd have been mostly sequestered in off-site areas like Discord servers where the order of the day was usually “What stupid shit is the thread arguing about now?”

Arguably the hottest bed of it was the r/bioniclelego server, and there was a pretty strong “Yeah the sword argument is fucking stupid, if you won’t wanna make the sword custom, just stick an Air Saber on it and call it a day” current.

The anti-contest crowd didn’t make the Hagah take forever, that’s purely on TTV going radio silent during the production of the “Every Set Ever” video. At most, you could say that SubParFauxPas deleting his own audit of the entries slowed things down, but not by much.

And yeah, the MoD talks slowed things down, but... TTV didn’t have to get involved with those. Meso himself made it clear that they wanted to after MoD’s survey showed that most of the community did want the contests to continue, but weren’t satisfied with the way they were run.

And TBH if those count as “Slowing everything down” then so should Meso spending the past week playing Destiny instead of setting up Tuyet.

I can assure you there wasn’t some grand anti-contest conspiracy to bog things down, because most of the anti-contest crowd are anti-contest because they don’t like doing more retcons. It’s the lore nuts and canon sticklers that wanted more who sit on TTV’s boards and hurl Greg quotes at each other’s entries, people like Jerminator who freely admitted that they want more Greg Lore and were given an auditor role by TTV themselves.

I think the anti-contest crowd won today, unfortunately. Not just because the contests ended, but because they ended with only three done, because they were able to successfully piss away all the time we had by generating endless, pointless, circular fucking arguments over what counts as a Metru torso and whether Tuyet's sword should have barbs or not. It's all the stupid unimportant detail shit that defines the worst aspects of Curative fandom that I had hoped we could overcome in time, but that they successfully weaponized to drag these out as agonizingly slowly as possible and make into an exhausting ordeal what should have been a fun community revival. I hope you're fucking happy, assholes.