And that's just the tip of the cesspool.

The sheer amount of BS drama and accusations I see are just... wow. I dove in a little bit, but if I shook my head anymore, it'd fall off!

I really think that it's because these teenagers are the children of the Karens; they barge their way into places and start making demands because they grew up with that and think that's how you're supposed to do things.

We fought off the Burned Furs once; we can do it again.

Yeeeeeeah, I do noticed it's mostly the 18 and 19 year olds. Once in a GREAT while I'll see someone in their mid 20's, but not very often. The fact these kids spew out these accusations for clout is so much wtf.

Makes me glad they never really show up at cons!

They'd have to leave the house to do that!

Always funny how these people, who "have evidence of illegal activity" never take that evidence to authorities to have something done.

Nah, appearantly it's a better idea to post it on Twitter for praise! Bunch of idiots lol

To afford being able to go to a con they'd have to get off welfare and get a job in the real world.

Moving to mastodon was the best thing I ever did.

Twitter is DESIGNED to SMASH your outrage buttons for engagement. So the shit just gets deeper.

No idea what happened, and I have no desire to :p

I admit, I get a little bit of a rush watching the idiots get their asses handed to them at times. But other than that, cesspool lol

It's so bad

Terribly, awfully, Sonic says thats nooooooo good, bad.

I would say it used to be good, but that would be wrong

Twitter is absolute poison.

Makes me glad my enjoyment of the fandom doesn't require it like!

That's Twitter in a nutshell for you. All the more reason (among many, many others) I'm glad I never got into it. That and Facebook destroy peoples' mental health and cause brainrot. Wish it'd finish imploding and go away already.

Likewise. I'm SOMEWHAT part of it, but not as Blaze-Lupine. The shadows are comfortable lol

I'm surprised it didn't boot you off. The site is held together by cheap duct tape.

I genuinely believe has been the biggest reason the community has started going belly up. And I even further believe Twitter is the reason the global IQ is dropping like a brick.

Sadly though.. it's were the people are and where any hope of growing an audience is..

It really is. And, I try not to lump then all together because it's not all of them, but it's mostly because of the 18-19 year olds just now entering the fandom who feel they have a mission to make it a clean place.

So glad these people don't/can't come to the conventions.

So let me get this straight... they seek it out to be critical about it?

Pretty much. There's a whole "squad" of people who do nothing but browse Twitter and look for anything that can even remotely be viewed as "problematic."

They're like PETA. They believe they have good intentions, but but everyone outside their little circles sees them as crazy extremists lol

Wait, I know this story!

"Person sees art depicting an act that, if it were to happen in the real world, would be highly illegal. Said person immediately attributes the depiction of said artwork as a genuine intent of the person depicted in the same artwork, or the artist who created the same artwork, to either endorse said actions, or commit or have committed the actions depicted therein.

Person blurs the line between fantasy and reality and treats them as one in the same, thus their mental gymnast routine is complete, and they can confidently and righteously proclaim that their view is irrefutably correct and see themselves as a hero for speaking out against the fictitious act of the accused they had created in their own mind."

How close to the mark am I?

-snaps fingers-

Nearly dead on, my friend. Internet warriors looking for digital backpacks for their horribly misguided efforts lol

Ohhhh man.
Yeah I have been hate blocked and called a zoophile because I said there is nothing wrong with drawing monster porn, dragon porn, pokemon porn etc. It's like they cannot separate reality from a drawing.
My favorite thing to throw at them
https://youtu.be/v0R376NXUAA

Right??? I have zero regrets about leaving Twitter. It was fun for a while, but then it became hot, steaming garbage for several years before Musk took it over.

I mean, one's experience largely depended on who one followed, but yeah, lately it just looks so awful.

It's also a really terrible place to showcase one's art. It really wasn't meant for art at all. Like, trying to look at someone's old posts felt impossible.