Quote Originally Posted by Kaurhz View Post
I would look at it relatively speaking. The forums are a cesspool at the moment. There's very little merit in actually taking anything seriously on here because everyone is so antagonistic towards each other, myself included at times. At this point even a bad portrayal, even if not a bad point is still an upgrade these days....

I watch the ones where I feel like I can withstand their personality, or find them entertaining, personally. e.g., I could watch streamers like Fahros (when he played), Xenosys (on occasion), Frosty (I'll pretty much put Mogtalk on as background noise and listen), and Angelus Demonus.

I can't say that I support all the streamers, but I do appreciate what they do, and in the same vein won't actually go out of my way to hate on them just because they're a streamer. If they do something then I may comment on it but it's hardly anything like "Stummer, must hate."
It's not just these forums though. It's spreading, and it's getting really bad. We're not even to the pre-expac lull yet and we're already at each other's throats.

Unfortunately I started even reading some of the youtube comments, and they're getting kinda nasty. Like these are just content creators and players asking for a little more variety is all, and it's like we're rabid.

It kinda seems like Zepla might legitimately be in a defensive spiral because there's no positivity her way from XIV and XIV players. She may not want to even come back, and that's a HUGE hit to us as much as some people want to sit here and say she doesn't help the community.