I'm inept when it comes to making threads, so if someone wants to kill some time, I recommend one on
Pony Town.
Breakdown
Pony Town is a My Little Pony social MMORPG opened to the public in June 2016, which has since been adopted by genderspecial he/they/xey/faer/meows with DID, ADHD, autism, BPD, and at least 17 other chronic illnesses (all undiagnosed, but diagnoses are classist or something).
The concept of the game is simple: you create an account, dress up your pixel horse in a variety of manes and accessories, and log into one of the many servers. However, an online chatroom aimed at children, which gained popularity during the COVID lockdowns, is doomed to be a festering rot ground full of the worst people TikTok has to offer.
Users frequently use Patreon and GitHub as "about me" pages. Oftentimes, these about me pages have external links to sites like Rentry, Txti.es, and Carrd. They often have completely absurd DNI (do not interact) pages, which effectively equate to "don't speak to me if you don't believe everything I believe." White people, non-trannies, straight people, and
people who believe in diagnosis are the equivalent of the Antichrist.
Here's a rundown of some of the users' pages that I posted in the Carrd Autism thread, complete with screenshots and archive links.
If you say something wrong in the public chat (such as, "I don't think you actually have DID," "Trans women have a different skeletal structure to natal women," "I believe in Christianity," and other completely tame stuff like that), 80 people will all jump in to tell you to kill yourself.
Terminology
Because telling people to fuck off is too scary, Pony Town users will oftentimes put acronyms in their names. That way, they can take the easier route of calling you ableist. This list isn't comprehensive, but is a good introduction to the sort of bullshit on this site.
TT/TD/DNTUF: Touch Trigger, Touch Discomfort, Do Not Touch Unless Friend.
If your pixels come into contact with someone who has a touch trigger, they'll pretend to have a mental breakdown. Haphephobia and phantom touch is a real thing, but there are zero clinical cases where phantom touch can affect you on a 2D pixel game.
DA/IRL/'me': Delusional Attachment, In Real Life, literally me.
Basically, an advanced version of kinning, this time with mental illness faking. "IRL" is very rarely used to refer to a pony based on the user's own appearance and is almost exclusively used to claim they are a fictional character behind the screen. Delusional attachments are "caused by psychosis" (despite not being an actual medical phenomenon), therefore it's ableist to say that that person isn't the character they claim they are.
FICT/INTROJ/HOST/SYS: Fictive, Introject, Host, System.
This user claims to have dissociative identity disorder, which is its own clusterfuck you can read about
here. It's all but guaranteed they're bullshitting, and there's a good chance they have some wonderful shit to read.
Staff Team
Despite having been released in 2016, the game is still in alpha. It recently reached version 0.100.2-alpha, and there's no end in sight to the development hell. There is one major update every month if you're lucky- however, an entirely pixel-art based game would understandably take time, so I can't entirely fault them. There's a
decently sized team (
x) behind the game, and their
Patreon (
x) is raking in
at least $10,230 a month at the time of writing.
Despite the wages, the moderation team is barely active, and reports often take days to process. This means that on top of the horrible userbase, there are many pedophiles that go unbanned. Considering the game is aimed at children, and there's no chat filter when in private chat, it's a very inviting place for things like this.
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Screenshots
A picture is worth a thousand words. Let me show you the sorts of users you'll find on this wonderful game.
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Genuinely shocked that this site doesn't have a thread already. There's something new to grimace at every time you log on.
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