Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Victim blaming and sweeping under the rug are serious accusations to make when there are people within the community, both content creators and posters on the official forum and elsewhere, who are speaking out against the people disturbing Asmongold's play.

And one of the support for the community being better is that, when people are behaving badly, there is the ToS in place. So it presumes that there would be people behaving badly. So pointing out that bad people exist doesn't negate people's claims that FFXIV's community is better. It's also subjective as to what constitutes "better."
The Asmongold issue has been a bit of a turning point, and there are many more people speaking out than usual. It shouldn't take being a streamer with 200k viewers for people to take your harassment seriously.

But people have also been blaming Asmongolds own fans and tripping over themselves to justify why he deserves to be harassed in almost every single thread on this topic, be it here or on the subreddit. Twitter is even more insane, and private discords more insane still.

I watched my SO get stalked and harassed by some of the same twitter accounts now organizing against Asmongold. Every time I brought her story up, here or elsewhere, I was told it was probably her fault and that I was withholding details that would incriminate her. One user, who is still active on these boards and not a troll, even baselessly implied she must be racist without knowing literally any details of the situation outside of her being an artist lol.

People in the community go out of their way to try to maintain the illusion that the community is perfect, even at the direct expense of people with legitimate grievances. Hopefully this will become less of an issue as it's brought to light by the Asmon situation.