Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
Honestly, I think we all just need to take a step back and look at ourselves beyond the clown makeup.

This community has been getting so toxic lately. We can argue, complain and moan about the stuff thats been happening lately but frankly I think we all just need to take a break from FFXIV and ourselves and go do other things.
You need to pay a certain construct in a certain lighthouse a visit. Since your math is really off.

But just to explain it to you...really slooooooowly:

The entire forums + all the people reporting streamers and whatever happens atm =/= the community.

But this is a common fallacy, you see it in streamers/youtubers too. "I got a death threat this community is so awful and toxic." I hope i don't have to explain why this kind of pigeonholing is a fallacy, you see a tiny fraction of a community doing bad stuff and thus you think the whole community is bad for whatever reason. Meanwhile the overwhelming amount of the community neither cares about this drama nor about you and the forums and just play the game.

But to give another example of how bad this kind of point of view actually is. Your conclusion is the same as saying "Oh america has so much gun violence, therefore all americans are violent lunatics." This is obviously not true, you just project a very loud minority of a certain group of people as the leading example of said group. We can put you also in such a conclusion btw., you are posting such takes on the forums thereby you have to be a troll. And maybe you are one, maybe you are not but i bet you would say you are not a troll. Which would mean you found a better conclusion than the one you had before.