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Topic	Am I tripping or did this place become a lot more toxic in the last 2 months?
MrMallard 07/22/21 4:07:23 AM #22:	Things have been ramping up since Trump got elected. Users fell whole-hog into conservative shitposting, other users flew further left in response, and with events like Caution getting unmasked as a racist and the subreddit getting set up by his ilk the userbase has continued to fracture as time goes on. Over time, you've probably seen more lefty users reach a fever pitch and inhabit a more combative shell whenever you see them - including me. I try to keep a lid on it or isolate it to a single post or topic I want to make, but I get ass-blasted and I hamfistedly post about my virtues - sure. The reason why you might see lefty types of posters fly off the handle a bit more now is because the right wing shitposters post in blocs, actively bait controversy more often than not and are pushing more extreme rhetoric over time alongside the rise of politicians like MTG. Not to mention the excuse we have for gimmicks - like we have a guy who banks on his own controversy regarding the claim that he met his wife online when she was 14 and he was 19. Anth0ny stopped with his ant thing what feels like years ago now, the WWE gimmick has always posted in a blue moon and goatthief's whole thing stopped being about supposedly stealing everyone's goats in favour of playing into this massive drama machine between Tails and the rest of GameFAQs. The only thing even resembling a gimmick nowadays is the guy who claims to have groomed his wife as a teenager, who derails topics about pedophilia and the age of consent knowing damn well how people are going to respond to his presence in those threads. I guess I can't say for certain, given I've only been posting regularly since 2016. But I hear what you're saying, and I think this schism you're sensing is the continuing fallout in the wake of America's political radicalisation. The same way people have to contend with anti-maskers and emboldened racist Karens in real life, the past 5 years of polarisation has brewed animosity and extremism in online communities at an unprecedented scale, and it's sending everyone - both MTG-adjacent conservative users/shitposters and jaded leftist users who contend with them - fucking nuts. --- But I don't have to make this mistake, and I don't have to stay this way. Now Playing: Persona 5 Strikers, Oxenfree, Oldschool Runescape <cite>MrMallard posted [p:956341402] in Am I tripp... [t:79575331]...</cite> <quote>Things have been ramping up since Trump got elected. Users fell whole-hog into conservative shitposting, other users flew further left in response, and with events like Caution getting unmasked as a racist and the subreddit getting set up by his ilk the userbase has continued to fracture as time goes on. Over time, you've probably seen more lefty users reach a fever pitch and inhabit a more combative shell whenever you see them - including me. I try to keep a lid on it or isolate it to a single post or topic I want to make, but I get ass-blasted and I hamfistedly post about my virtues - sure. The reason why you might see lefty types of posters fly off the handle a bit more now is because the right wing shitposters post in blocs, actively bait controversy more often than not and are pushing more extreme rhetoric over time alongside the rise of politicians like MTG. Not to mention the excuse we have for gimmicks - like we have a guy who banks on his own controversy regarding the claim that he met his wife online when she was 14 and he was 19. Anth0ny stopped with his ant thing what feels like years ago now, the WWE gimmick has always posted in a blue moon and goatthief's whole thing stopped being about supposedly stealing everyone's goats in favour of playing into this massive drama machine between Tails and the rest of GameFAQs. The only thing even resembling a gimmick nowadays is the guy who claims to have groomed his wife as a teenager, who derails topics about pedophilia and the age of consent knowing damn well how people are going to respond to his presence in those threads. I guess I can't say for certain, given I've only been posting regularly since 2016. But I hear what you're saying, and I think this schism you're sensing is the continuing fallout in the wake of America's political radicalisation. The same way people have to contend with anti-maskers and emboldened racist Karens in real life, the past 5 years of polarisation has brewed animosity and extremism in online communities at an unprecedented scale, and it's sending everyone - both MTG-adjacent conservative users/shitposters and jaded leftist users who contend with them - fucking nuts. --- But I don't have to make this mistake, and I don't have to stay this way. Now Playing: Persona 5 Strikers, Oxenfree, Oldschool Runescape</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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