Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
...and yet that is precisely something that has happened and continues to happen within the FFXIV community. Strangely enough, despite multiple scandals and people in this very thread pointing out that such things have happened to either themselves or people they know, there's major efforts by some individuals made to downplay and obscure that unfortunate fact.

Indeed, the amount of gaslighting and manipulation going on is rather bizarre. There's literally people arguing extensively in favour of exposing minors to NSFW content within this very thread. Including across recent pages and yet we still have people showing up to claim that everything is fine and that it's no big deal.
Just going to quote this since it explains exactly what's wrong with this thread (and nope, it's not the mods or ERP in general).

I'm guessing most people got tired of the same few people making up phantom arguments they can rally against while being flexible with their own views. Looking at the latest five pages or so, the newest hottest take is that minors are actually lying about their age and are forcing or tricking adults into engaging with them. Cool.

Meanwhile, laws don't matter, ToS doesn't matter, personal views and requests from Yoshida and the development team don't matter either. Everything is perfect, the community is great and if you even slightly disagree you're probably a Puritan Karen who's forcing others to babysit kids and also definitely a bigger creep yourself.

In the end the most damning thing is that Square doesn't moderate this forum at all so now people get their space to go full-on Lord of the Flies up here.