Quote Originally Posted by Ishe-P View Post
I first spoke up about these trends in Endwalker and was told I was crazy and overreacting.
The vitriol towards Zepla is just unhinged. People treat her as a lolcow and shit on her looks, her appearance, her personality, questioning her motives, even going so far as to call her transphobic (just for playing Hogwarts), sociopathic (same), and so on.

This woman suffered through the war in Ukraine and family loss. And the community tears her down and bullies her with all kinds of unwarranted insults, calling her all kinds of insults reserved for women.

I just find it funny how this is a perfect portrayal of "Great Community BTW". Particularly one that prides itself on inclusivity across gender and sexuality. And then the very same people who called her transphobic use insults reserved for women on Zepla. Ironic, eh?

And I am a bit saddened when I remember how GCBTW used to be a meme in SB and ShB to point out the passive aggressive toxicity we have in FF14 across social media, and originally, in duty roulette. But now the communities on these platforms are literally the Great Community, By the Way.

They hunt down and ostracize anyone who dislikes FF14. Going so far as to send death threats (back in ShB). We used to have some self-awareness, but now? That self awareness seems to have evaporated. I don't see anyone calling out the harassment towards Zepla. Perhaps that's just because I'm detached from the community these days, but I remember when people called out the death threats towards content creators in ShB.

This community has become pathetic and represents the worst of humanity. It's a dark look into the worst of us, the division, the infighting, the tribalism. It wouldn't be so sad if it weren't representative of what's happening IRL too, where we all fight against each other instead of banding together against the billionaires and their billion dollar companies.