laughs in brony community
every fandom has it's toxic/cringy place
but i guess we can label some fandoms that aren't too cringy/toxic as the other fandoms, so i guess point made
I don't want to think that every fandom is safe too, there's always going to be that unsafe side that will eventually be found within the community and/or fandom. I think a fandom that isn't too toxic.. well.. kinda, is Doctor Who. My mom is a die-hard whovian, but I respect her passion involved with the show. There isn't much toxicity surrounding the show from what I've seen, and usually it's just people who enjoy a good show, and to be fair, the show is really good. I guess another good example is the diablo 3 community, or well, the diablo community (rip most of them). While yes, a gaming community, and yes, one of those communities that aren't the friendliest, I think this community has taught me something about most communities, there are really helpful people throughout this community, and some will even play with you while helping. I mean, there's definitely toxicity in this community, but most of them are hardcore, and are passionate about this game series, and will play through all of the games for their life.
That brings me to the parentheses. There is disappointment throughout communities. When Diablo Immortal was announced for just the mobile devices, alot of people in the community, or I should say, practically everyone, was disappointed and some even creating a lot of rant and negativity. This is because the community has a lot of fucking respect and passion for something they enjoy, and when the creators of Diablo, Blizzard, dropped this on them instead of something more for their liking, the community kind of just... well it's still there, but it's dying because Blizzard responded to the community in such a strange, rushed way.
This paragraph is mostly bias, so skip a few lines for the next paragraph if you don't care about the Diablo franchise. I personally hated the way they responded to the community, because Diablo 3 was released 6 and a half years ago. I wasn't even 14 when it came out, and most of the community were people in their mid 30's or early 40's, my dad including. Six and a half fucking years ago, almost when I joined osu!, that's a long time for a game that has been receiving minimal updates besides random bug fixes and "new" content that is just seasons. And Diablo Immortals is such a lousy mobile game that is reskinned from other mobile games just like it, I wouldn't be surprised if Activision was behind all of this.
Anyways, this is a great time to remind to everyone that there is 0 reason to bash at anyone that has a fandom pic like pony/furry/weeb (seemingly the common trio that i see, you should guess which one dominates the other two, i'll give you a hint, there's 20 fucking harumachi clover beatmaps ranked). Unless it's their oc, then you can bash at them for having a horrible oc. This applies even more if their colors are the most common, you can look it up at your own leisure, but I'll just give you the basics that any pony oc with 99% red and black that they are not only edgy, but extremely unoriginal and will try to find the best ways to roast you, but will fail miserably. Any furry oc that has colors of brown, orange, red, and/or yellow is just a furry. What, were you expecting me to say something stupid? Uhh.. okay okay.. uhh... 95% of furries are bad at this game? No.. huhh.. uhh.. okay.. how about... You know what, let's just skip to the next paragraph.
Fandoms are just fandoms, alot of time they will try to make the weirdest shit that they think is "normal" to them. If there's fanfiction of it, and it's using their oc, it's disgusting and never read it. However, have you read Fallout: Equestria? It's actually super good IMO, and it's one of the few fanfictions that got me hooked into making my own. What? You never seen a fanfiction made by me? That's because I don't share them. Atleast, not yet, there's still some that have been in writing development for like a good 4-5 years, and one is slightly readable but I almost want to ditch it because my ideas 6 years ago weren't that great, and I'd rather have a bunny for legs.
Have you ever thought of entering a fandom and expecting the most purest of things? That never really happens, because every fandom will try to shove their facts down your esophagus and make sure that if ANYONE ELSE in the world tells you different they will rant for hours until you have heard every last breath of their bullshit. That's why people believe in the earth being flat. You know what I would do to those people? Send them to a place I'd like to call "mental hospital" because they are just too stupid to live on this ROUND planet. It's why the brony community exists, some will actually try to tell you that the 'other side' aka the furry community is as deadly as a venomous snake, and vice versa. Tell you the truth, the best way to counter these bigots is by avoiding them. You'd be surprised how incredibly easy it is, but some people don't learn.
Experience is really the only way we can learn from other fandoms. By experience alone, we can purely tell why the brony community sucks, or why the weeb community is full of 16 year olds who think they're god because they have a miku bodypillow, a katana they probably stole or asked mom and dad for 600 dollars, and weigh 250 pounds. But it's also how we get to know each other. We each have that in our personal backstory incase we ever get famous or some shit like that. I'unno bout you.. but I'd hate to be famous. I already was a popular "role model" when roleplaying was huge on steam, that's why I had 500 friends, mostly for playing TF2 with. I still have some of them, but I only have 70 friends on steam, and more like 400 on discord now. I guess the past will have to be a part of me, even though I don't want it to be. There's something to learn from this, we are a part of something, whether we think so or not.
But I guess it's also why neither of my friends ask me "how's the pony community", because neither they, nor me, don't discuss fandoms unless we're ok with it. Most of the time the answer will just be "a shitshow" because in theory, most of the fandoms I'm in are absolute shitshows. It's why I have games as my backup from now on. I don't get bored so easily like other people that require attention because all they want to do is get their oc in a cringy romantic situation and call it "life". That's absolutely why I don't want to consider myself a part of these fandoms, but the moment I leave anything and put out some random avatar that makes no sense to me, people are going to question who the fuck I am.
That's where this small tidbit comes into life. You have to learn to embrace things. There's no such thing as being too positive. You can be negative, but you can't be too negative, otherwise you're going to get a lot of hate and it'll take a long time to repair that. Your actions are permanent, and sometimes, you just have to figure out why what you are a part of is what you cherish, and then you have to embrace it. I know that sounds dumb, I know that sounds horrible coming from me, but you just have to accept it. Being yourself is the most passionate thing you can do to yourself. It's healthy, you don't have to be the best. You just have to give it your best. It's stuff like that is what will make you prosper in life, to be consistent, to be strong, to be mindful, and to be yourself. There is no harm in doing what you love doing unless it actually harms people, so why hold back? Be more open.
I'm really sorry if you read through all of that. I don't think I can even tl;dr for everything I said, my mind is just rushing through things and I'm probably just going to start more drama for something that shouldn't even cause it in the first place. Maybe I need a break.
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