Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Well, I disagree that they are large "swaths" of the community. If they were, the community's perception of itself would be different.
Multiple people have spoken at length of their experiences with the more dangerous and creepier elements within the community. Within this thread and elsewhere. As such, I don't think it can be brushed off as a tiny minority at this point.

There's also a large portion of players who, willingly or unknowingly, cover for the abusers in turn. They downplay the problems that exist. It reminds me very much of Yotsuyu's background, funnily enough. Plenty of people come to recognise that abuse is happening, but they are all to happy to maintain the lie that everything is fine or that it isn't a 'concern' because it isn't affecting them directly.

It also doesn't take much for vocal elements within this community to get incredibly enraged. Again, as posted about repeatedly earlier within this thread, simply liking or disliking the 'wrong' characters is enough for many individuals to get horrid death threats and persistent campaigns of harassment both in-game and outside of it.