It's certainly odd because in the Discord communities I'm in there's certainly not the rampant toxicity that's described. Some arguments get heated, sure, but said servers tend to have rules for a reason and those get enforced, and even then it's expected the arguments to be in good faith. I don't even use reddit and only open Twitter once or twice a day since I only use it to follow my favorite XIV creators (and Neil Gaiman). The spaces one frequents, I guess...

Quote Originally Posted by Fenral View Post
I know I'm spectacularly unpopular, so all I can really say is that it's never my intention to upset or offend anyone. (It can happen; I blame catboy RBF.)

Aside from FC chat, I don't discuss FFXIV anywhere else, because Lore used to be the accept-no-substitutes best. It was hard to come back after a brief hiatus to find it consumed in the negativity and vitriol I came here to escape, but in spite of myself, I'm also not quite ready to give up on it yet.
And that's a shame because I remember finding out a few months ago that our favorite catboy was in 2 West End productions of some of my favorite musicals and thought "Wonder if Fenral knows about it?", and alas there was no Fenral. Certainly a "If I had a nickle for every time Jonathan Bailey has played a character named Jamie in a West End Musical, I'd have... 2 nickles. Which is not a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice." moment