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Ladies and Germs we all know how Toxic Havoc has gotten, but we aren't the only ones suffering this problem.
A lot of you who know me know I'm a very avid member of the Super Smash Bros community. I'm a Smash 4 Game & Watch main who hates Link. If you don't care about Smash, skip this paragraph, but it helps me make my point. Recently at EVO and Super Smash Con, some wild things have surfaced about the state of the Smash community. Grand Finals at EVO a week ago was 2 Bayonettas, who if you don't know, is by far the best character in the game. She has very powerful and easy to release combos and wins games in ways some players find cheap or unfair. The general consensus about Bayo is that she's overpowered and lot of players absolutely despise her. As grand finals were happening, between matches the two players would get BOOed because of their character choice. As a result, at the beginning of one of the games, the two sat in center stage and held the B button, which charges Bayo's bullet arts. But they never let them go. They sat there for about 2 minutes before someone from EVO told them this was collusion, which is against the rules. At Super Smash Con earlier this week, lots of drama unveiled with a top player choosing to not play and their "fans" giving them unrivaled amounts of hate. Also, another player who mains Jigglypuff (similar situation to Bayonetta) started receiving mad hate when he won as well. Both of these players snapped, going on twitter and cursing out the community for the hate they've been getting.
So as the Smash community has been burning to the ground I couldn't help but realize some Smashtubers kept throwing around the word Toxicity when describing the past month of Smash. Dear God, does that word sound familiar. Overall, it looks like Smash is suffering the same problems as Havoc. The community has gotten beyond bearable, and for some reason its all manifesting itself at once.
The problem isn't that the majority of people are toxic. On the contrary, both communities have both good and bad people, with the good far outweighing the bad. The problem is how the vocal minority are being allowed to have their way. The problem is how silent the silent majority is. We're letting this problem manifest itself and no one's stopping it.
I felt like making this post might help us fix the problem. If you want toxicity to stop, don't just say -
"Oh I wish the problem would stop but I don't want to deal with the person causing the problem so ill just complain about it online blah blah blah blah..."
Step up. If you see people being toxic, call them out. If people work together to stop this toxicity, we can shut it down at the source - the person doing it. Of course being toxic yourself adds to the problem, but so does not saying anything about it. Yes, this is part of the reason I quit staff, because I felt like I was the only one battling it amongst all of us. I'm calling on EVERYONE to help us change this.
#endthetoxicity
A lot of you who know me know I'm a very avid member of the Super Smash Bros community. I'm a Smash 4 Game & Watch main who hates Link. If you don't care about Smash, skip this paragraph, but it helps me make my point. Recently at EVO and Super Smash Con, some wild things have surfaced about the state of the Smash community. Grand Finals at EVO a week ago was 2 Bayonettas, who if you don't know, is by far the best character in the game. She has very powerful and easy to release combos and wins games in ways some players find cheap or unfair. The general consensus about Bayo is that she's overpowered and lot of players absolutely despise her. As grand finals were happening, between matches the two players would get BOOed because of their character choice. As a result, at the beginning of one of the games, the two sat in center stage and held the B button, which charges Bayo's bullet arts. But they never let them go. They sat there for about 2 minutes before someone from EVO told them this was collusion, which is against the rules. At Super Smash Con earlier this week, lots of drama unveiled with a top player choosing to not play and their "fans" giving them unrivaled amounts of hate. Also, another player who mains Jigglypuff (similar situation to Bayonetta) started receiving mad hate when he won as well. Both of these players snapped, going on twitter and cursing out the community for the hate they've been getting.
So as the Smash community has been burning to the ground I couldn't help but realize some Smashtubers kept throwing around the word Toxicity when describing the past month of Smash. Dear God, does that word sound familiar. Overall, it looks like Smash is suffering the same problems as Havoc. The community has gotten beyond bearable, and for some reason its all manifesting itself at once.
The problem isn't that the majority of people are toxic. On the contrary, both communities have both good and bad people, with the good far outweighing the bad. The problem is how the vocal minority are being allowed to have their way. The problem is how silent the silent majority is. We're letting this problem manifest itself and no one's stopping it.
I felt like making this post might help us fix the problem. If you want toxicity to stop, don't just say -
"Oh I wish the problem would stop but I don't want to deal with the person causing the problem so ill just complain about it online blah blah blah blah..."
Step up. If you see people being toxic, call them out. If people work together to stop this toxicity, we can shut it down at the source - the person doing it. Of course being toxic yourself adds to the problem, but so does not saying anything about it. Yes, this is part of the reason I quit staff, because I felt like I was the only one battling it amongst all of us. I'm calling on EVERYONE to help us change this.
#endthetoxicity
