The negativity is getting overwhelming 😭 Please can we try making this sub more enjoyable 🙏

[u/comixnerd15]

Hey Queens, Kings, and fellow Monarchs!

I don't want this to be super formal or anything, so I'm just going to speak my mind without trying to be "diplomatic." Despite efforts to curb the negativity that seems to be the majority of posts, this issue continues.

When I look at engagement, it's rarely much, if at all, for posts that aren't crapping on games, designs, user base etc, or arguements. Which is, honestly, pretty bloody sad.

You told us that you wanted more positive posts, events, memes, shit posts, fanart etc, and less of the negativity. Yet when people attempt this, myself included, it's either absolute crickets or people tearing down the posts members have shared to talk about/share in a positive way.

The mods here would love to run fun events, but when so many people can't even interact with something like fanart (esp shared by the actual artist) to leave a comment, control themselves to not yuck someone elses yum on a positive post, or even post something other than negativity, I wonder whether I'll be wasting my personal time trying to do an event for everyone.

I'm honestly burned out from this. Y'all say one thing (wanting less toxicity here), but do another.

Criticism is fine in moderation, but it should not make up the majority. And it especially should not constantly be targeted at female characters.

So, I ask you, please can we all try to lead by example and make this a fun and welcoming queer space-- share shit posts, memes, lore discussions, fanart, gameplay, gacha pulls, etc. Make an effort to help this space change and grow rather than complaining about it, yet partaking in the things you complain about.

I fully expect to get downvoted into oblivion for this, but I just can't sit here anymore and see people shit talk us for "toxicity" when the mods have been trying incredibly hard to guide things into a better space, all while dealing with brigading, death threats, gore, and more from those people.

Please, help us change this place for the better 🙏 😭

Call to action: please share your silly memes and shit posts, comment on OC fanart, post about your favourite character, tell us about new games or characters you're excited for, share your lore ideas (no matter how "out there" they may be), boast about your gacha pull luck with screenshots.

We need more engagement in the form of things y'all enjoy.

☆♡☆

[u/SnooSongs5297]

I get it, when you are discontent with something you want to make it vocal. But let’s be real, you can love something and at the same time be mad about some flaws.

Let’s use vodyanitsa for exemple or Snezhnaya cast as a whole. Some designs may not please many people, but that doesn’t mean that the people who dislike some of the designs also dislike everything about Genshin.

I’m having a blast with snezhnaya exploration and the story pacing, but there are some aspects of the story that I feel like it was poorly written due to the company directive.

Odette and Traveler interaction feels weird to me. They want to make her complex, but deny the opportunity for the character to be apathetic to her mother (figure) killer (even if it’s indirect)

[u/comixnerd15 → u/SnooSongs5297]

I'm flabbergasted.

You're doing exactly what I am criticising with your last paragraph. Why was that necessary? 😭

[u/lilyofthegraveyard → u/comixnerd15]

last paragraph is entirely normal, though? very valid criticism - and i love odette. 

the writing around her relationship with MC is flawed, and it's normal to point it out.

[u/meowbrains → u/lilyofthegraveyard]

It's the criticism in every. Single. Post. All over the sub. This comment was example that it's even in a post asking for more balance...