tl;dr not even Doomkid can stand the current culture of Doomworld, and is/has been distancing himself from it.
I just read the whole thing, and i'm not even surprised. Some opinions have been shared before, here and on Doomer Boards that Doomkid is keeping a lot to himself and his real persona is more like what we see on his youtube videos. I always liked his youtube content, and just by watching it, and learning what he's all about, i was pretty damn sure that can't be entirely happy, or agreeing with the current state of the community. I thought him dropping from the moderation staff was a publicity stunt at first, but now i'm starting to think that he doesn't want anything to do with them or the way they run things, and because he's powerless to change the direction of where DW is heading.
I'll start with the positives, but there are also a few negatives that i'll list below:
+ this whole rant is more or less what we've been saying here, on Doomer boards or anywhere else that isn't Doomworld. Remove the jokes, the insults, sarcasm and tone, and you get the same criticism on the state of map making and critique we've been talking about for the past 2-3 years (maybe more, but i'm talking about the stuff i've witnessed). And i'm sure he's aware of these critiques and have read all of it, if not here, then definitely on Doomer Boards. I'll get back to that when i list the negatives.
+ He thinks of going back to making content on youtube and vanilla map making. Good, this is the Doomkid everyone likes to see.
+ My favorite part of the rant is how he takes a genuine shot at the constipated, overly-pretentious, pompose mapping trends and essays of today. He'll never admit this, but this is confirmation that he dislikes what the mapping scene has become. It's an indirect shot at the most Cacoward winners from the last decade, at the Sunlust copycats, the slaughter shit, the artsy abominations and at the way some
"six girls that yap about Doom wads" are talking about maps like they are the second coming of Jesus. Again, he's never going to admit it, but the writing is on the wall. Here's the quote:
I really could be imagining this, but for a growing percentage of mappers, it seems like Doom is no longer about fun - it's about something really serious and not-happiness-inducing that I can't quantify but that I wouldn't describe as desirable from the perspective of a player. Like it has to be a big window into the depths of one's soul, rather than just a lil fun with Doom as a backdrop.
Now onto the negatives:
- starts the rant with a disclaimer that
"he could be wrong, and his opinion might have been skewed". He proceeds to say stupid shit like
"i could be wrong, or i could be imagining things", "Maybe i just don't understand the cultural shift" bla, bla, bla... He's perfectly aware that he's not wrong, but says these things, because he's afraid he might insult his fragile buddies... or his he's just distancing himself from the DW critics (more on that below).
- Doesn't blame anything on the moderators, when they are absolutely, 100% the people to blame, and he fucking knows it!
- Instead of coming back to the forum, he's going to run off to Discord. He's given up on trying to make a change. And maybe he's right, maybe it's too late for him as well. Would've been interesting to see him opposing the current state of things, but then again, he's too afraid to publicly put the blame on the people who deserve it, so guess it's better if he just stays away and makes fun content.
- I think he hides a lot more to himself. I think if he lets it all out, it will look like he agrees with even more stuff that we're saying, and he probably wants to distance himself from it. Which is why he kept saying
"my opinion might've been skewed" and more...
