MrHappy State of Endwalker w/ Zepla podcast

[ZephyrMenodora]

It's weird to act like we haven't been the past 10 years.

We saw major influx of players because of influencer marketing, so we know this community is driven by social dependency and parasocial behavior. It's a pretty good way to get you to respond and turn on each other when you've all relied on the constant feelgood feedback of those same influencers, that you now hate.

Not “you’ve all” - I predate these influencers and pay little to no attention to them, outside these threads lol.

I didn’t even know Arthas existed in the other thread - which I’m not bothering with as I don’t care. I at least knew who Zepla was tho.

[R041]

Not “you’ve all” - I predate these influencers and pay little to no attention to them, outside these threads lol.

I didn’t even know Arthas existed in the other thread - which I’m not bothering with as I don’t care. I at least knew who Zepla was tho.

Haha yeah that was way too broad. Anyone before 2021 is mostly fine - BUT, I do know that even those of us before the Exodus can and are often heavily influenced by talking heads, because XIV is a group that already have a hard time inviting their friends, and we enjoy the feelgood feedback that influencers provide. After-all, we do sit and praise the big one (Yoshi-P).

Watching Fan Fest kinda had me feeling a weird way, when I saw people meet Yoshi and started crying because of it. I think at that point, when you're acting that way to a Corporate head - The Corpo know they've managed to create an Idol, and we took the bait. Imagine if Blizzard had such a slick and cute idol like Yoshi for WoW, they'd be in the social green. lol


The hypocrisy is funny, 'cause I have a bunch of FF stuff on my bookshelf next to me. (Am I just projecting my own insecurities?)

(Hugs his Yoshi-P body pillow tighter)

[ZephyrMenodora]

Haha yeah that was way too broad. Anyone before 2021 is mostly fine - BUT, I do know that even those of us before the Exodus can and are often heavily influenced by talking heads, because XIV is a group that already have a hard time inviting their friends, and we enjoy the feelgood feedback that influencers provide. After-all, we do sit and praise the big one (Yoshi-P).

Watching Fan Fest kinda had me feeling a weird way, when I saw people meet Yoshi and started crying because of it. I think at that point, when you're acting that way to a Corporate head - The Corpo know they've managed to create an Idol, and we took the bait. Imagine if Blizzard had such a slick and cute idol like Yoshi for WoW, they'd be in the social green. lol


The hypocrisy is funny, 'cause I have a bunch of FF stuff on my bookshelf next to me. (Am I just projecting my own insecurities?)

(Hugs his Yoshi-P body pillow tighter)

I agree your comment applies to some people - especially those who only came to XIV due to Asmongold and follow him around as he changes games lol.

[R041]

I agree your comment applies to some people - especially those who only came to XIV due to Asmongold and follow him around as he changes games lol.

I just don't think the community can grow if a lot of us are stuck in a parasocial feelgood feedback loop. It's like Groundhog Day, nothing ever really changes.