Something specific from 4chan I think sucks, specially with /a/, is the idea of “hiding your power level” when it comes to tastes.

On one hand, it comes off as punishing yourself for being weird, for liking something specific.

On another, it comes off as “don’t let the filthy normies know or else they’ll ruing the thing you like” even though in reality, other weird nerds are more likely to be lame about things.

It does feel good to know something less popular and even getting people to appreciate it.

I even feel like saying: Maybe people have “bad takes” on stuff for the same reason why they talk about popular lame shit to begin with.

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A specific take I see on 4chan at times is the idea that Zoomers are p0rn addicts.

Maybe addicted to complaing about it because I can’t imagine that many of them being h0rny.

On one hand, you have those influenced by Tumblr refugees in 2018 on Twitter but on another, you have the /pol/ variants with Wojak obsession.

Maybe the reason for this claim is so a guy on 4chan pretends he doesn’t give a shit about these topics, specially when there’s threads with Twitter screenshots.

But it’s still not an actual picture of reality.

Similarly, I see them go “I thought wokies loved Isreal”: Dude, everyone left leaning I see are against Israel and worry about Palestine.

I even see rightwingers going “based Israel” to “trigger the wokes”.

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Probably late on this one but I guess my take on that Deltarune thing with Noelle is: On one hand, there's the typical case of an artist restricting themselves/their vision over what people would think of them or their fanbase. Or maybe in his situation, he hasn't seen any reaction yet and then felt like changing it just in case. But another is probably because of Deltarune and Undertale in general: In your opinion, what is the age demographic of these games? Because they're not explicit but I also never really view them as kid games either. In an even if not noticeable way, they come off as a very weird middleground, which could also reflect on Toby Fox's interests. In a way, it's a similar case with shows like Steven Universe where they come off as "kid shows but for adults".

Something I remember is Pokemon leaks from a year or two ago where GameFreak employees wrote stuff about humans and pokemons in romantic relationships. One group goes "BRUH DIDDY AHH BLUD", the other compares it to some Greek mythos but the one thing to think first is that Pokemon is the biggest property marketed towards children. Even something like Digimon can be less "pure" since it leans more towards a teen demographic.

Another example is stuff that is violent but also cartoony and never serious. A good example is classic retro FPS games. Because I recall a Wolfenstein themed mod for Doom (Wolfendoom Blade of Agony) having a chapter with a lot of explicit WW2 references and some people didn't like it. But besides the shock and anger, I wonder how many people thought first "wait, these are cartoon games that nobody took seriously" and whether or not it comes off as "edgy fanfic" like how Brutal Doom was seen as.

I also recall how FNF has puritan Zoomers in its fanbase and how some reacted to ninjamuffin990's art favs on his NG account. But there's also the fact that some of these gamedevs are big enough that there's no point in apoligizing. Omocat and Vivziepop apologized at times and it didn't really make things better for them, when the outrage mob operates in an "never forgive, never forget" way. They're still making stuff but one could always avoid a pointless/awkward moment by being apologetic or even acknowledging the angry people at all.

Also in this topic, I thought about Ruza. A game I heard about at some point and recently, had news of the dev changing it entirely and insulting his fans over it. Seems he had a brain injury that put him in an hospital for some time and I wonder if that changed him. Honestly, this is why I keep going back to writing ideas and organizing files and shit: If something happens to make, I want to make sure some of my plans and ideas are safe, if there ever is someone loyal enough to keep my dream alive.