Trainwreck Watcher
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- May 6, 2021
Classic case of the more open and in your face about their life someone is, the less interested people are. Unconfirmed or open-ended mystery aspect leaves a lot to the imagination of the intimacy deprived individuals, who use real people as their fanfiction. Slowburn, pining, forbidden romance is what interests them and scavenger hunts gathering little clues and video timestamps of their favorites blinking at the same time and therefore being soulmates and theorizing "will they / won't they?" is all part of their fun. Official relationships, especially between people that don't resemble anime characters, have no juice to the fanbase.I think it's funny that they pitch a fit about Ranboo and Tubbo maybe being gay, but you have actual LGBT streamers like Eret and Scott who they despise because they don't fit into their UwU fantasy.
It's always easier to bully the moderates who genuinely care and not people who seem sociopathic enough to be unaffected or are even peddling the extremism themselves.Phil? They're going after Phil now?
Because he said the N word 12 years ago?
God, my disgust towards this community grows more and more. Why do Dream and his groupies get a free pass for actually stupid shit (cheating, being manipulative, feeding the stan dream and george delusions, etc.) but they go after people like Philza and Tommy?
They didn't even go after Wilbur for his stupid "privilege" comments he made towards Tommy during his time of distress, no they fucking celebrated the "privilege" comments. The people they could've gone after for actually dumb shit (not that the level of genuine harassment they give is warranted) but instead they go after some guy who makes inoffensive content and tows their political line.
I know, I'm MATI, but I just hate the double standards that harassment of some people is okay, but not others.
Also did anyone talk about the superior Dream SMP, before the Dream SMP - Mianite? Someone even made a Venn diagram:
It was a Minecraft server, involving several streamers and combining loosely scripted storytelling with gameplay. So it's hilarious when Dream talks about coming up with the idea as if he pioneered it, when it was THE thing in 2014, but then again, most of his audience probably weren't even born yet to remember it.
It had everything a successful franchise needs:
Dedicated fans:
Trending on Twitter:
Fanart to keep fanning the flame off-screen:
And a prominent gay ship between a couple of main guys, who entertained it:
(Yes, this is real)
Why was it better?
1. Script written by someone competent, who didn't show biases or rip off something prominent at the time (Hamilton and L'manberg). Pacing was solid and clear season endings left fans wanting more, it only ended because the main couple (not the gay one) split up and it was too weird to continue.
2. Less characters, easy to follow. Didn't need to watch 20 perspectives to be filled in. NPCs acted like NPCs, showed up, fulfilled their role and pissed off. Not become a classroom sized clout farm where everyone awkwardly awaits their turn to reap screen time harvest in attempt of getting subscribers.
3. Weekly purge event that didn't need you following the story, it was a regular display of gameplay skills and wits, when content creators tried to get most kills on each other, steal loot and protect theirs. Fun time all around, guaranteed to quench the action fans.
4. People were allowed to have personalities back then, so there was more pranking each other involved, less sharing one inoffensive politically correct milquetoast brain cell.
5. You could fanfiction yourself into Hogwarts house type team for roleplaying: Mianite for good, Dianite for mischievous, and Ianite for neutral, switching teams depending on balance and personal gain. There was no need for "interjecting" into one person and then getting mad when that personality doesn't perfectly match your values.