FFXIV "Great Community" is Broken
310As a FFXIV content creator who is gay, who is an introvert and who has received tremendous amounts of support I do not believe that our community is too far gone. Apparently the actions of a few severely unhappy people means the entire community is now bad. Playing this game for a decade I completely disagree, the social media bubble is not an accurate representation of our community I've played with for around 10 years now.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Great Community in FFXIV
0:43 The punchline
0:55 What is GCBTW
1:21 Narcissism in the FFXIV Community
3:03 Social Media OP
4:49 Small VERY TOXIC Fractions of the community DO NOT define the rest.
5:18 The content creator perspective
7:12 The larger scale view
9:05 Dad who picked up his kids from school after work doesn't want to deal with your drama
Great community by the way. Now before you smash that dislike button harder than your character hit the floor in the last duty you ran in FFXIV this video is probably going to go a very different way than you expected it to.
Now let’s open the circus.
Welcome to the real version of the great sundering of final fantasy 14.
There is so much drama that it’s almost impossible to not collide with it on a regular basis in the final fantasy 14 community! The cataclysm is here! The great sundering!
You know that great community by the way winning awards and this and that right? Haha GCBTW what a toxic pit of degenerates and furries! Showing their true colors finally are they! GCBTW GC BTW GCBTW GCBTW GCBTW.
The punchline? Most of the actual 14 community has absolutely no idea any of this is going on.
The entire notion of GCBTW which for anyone wondering is the sarcastic way of saying “great community by the way” is a narcissistic take on this entire situation formed by a bubble of the community that amusingly enough is comprised of myself and likely you as the viewer who went onto youtube a third party platform and stumbled across this video.
We are not the norm for final fantasy 14. We are the exception. Most people are just logging into the game and they don’t watch my videos, they don’t watch mr. happy’s videos, they don’t even know what a world first race is, probably have watched as many minutes of any twitch stream in their entire life as you have ultimate clears and overall are so significantly detached from all of this that it’s unendingly narcissistic to think any of these third party social media platforms has any bearing on the normal player.
And it is that weird social media narcissistic lens.
But remember my underlings that have fewer subscribers than me that your entire validity as a human being is boiled down to how many numbers you have on social media. Own a house? Have a happy marriage? Enjoy swimming in your backyard pool
No screw you Mr. Happy has more subscribers than you, you inferior pancake, therefore you don’t exist.
This is why other people keep putting out on tweets, discord messages and reddit posts I am an anti content creator because I genuinely refuse to take part in this. To be frank, it horrifies me-- I play with people who are partners at huge financial companies, I’ve played with lawyers, pharmacists and that’s without mentioning even my boyfriend I obviously interact with on a daily basis. To me the social media thing and clout chasing is so beneath me and is frankly unsightly. I’ll take being genuine friends with someone that treats me right with no subscribers or twitter followers instead. Twitter is a cesspit of degeneracy and nightmares.
But this exact same narcissism and mentality is what fuels this GCBTW mentality.
People are taking a small fraction of the community and applying what they do to everyone. Let’s say you have a twitch stream running where say even 100 people are being actively toxic to you. Where they are ripping apart every action you do and basically pulling a pyrofire or whatever on you.
That 100 people will get to you, I know that because my youtube comments are sometimes filled with the exact kind of toxic sewage you’d come to expect. But in the grand scheme of things even if a squeaky guy in his 20s like me can amass 20k subscribers then 100 divided by 20000 multiplied by 100 to get a percentage is 0.5%. So my day could be ruined by 0.5% of my subscriber base going ham in theory. That would immediately be overwhelming. But that’s a fraction of my own community which is again a fraction of those that view youtube videos on 14, which is a fraction of those playing it.
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