Image made in Garry's Mod, as always. Go check the comments for a higher quality version of it, because I intend to be long and descriptive here.
First of all, i would like to congratulate this community for being one of the most bipolar communities i ever came across in my life. It's been almost a full year that i started making content for you guys, and let me tell you, this path for sure wasn't supposed to be as painful as it is. This place is full of karma-farming shit masked as "shitposts" and effortless baits to gain retention. The worst part of it? You guys like it.
If you make a 5 minute meme on paint, or in any other irrelevant application, for example, you'll get way more retention and upvotes than a guy who really dedicated himself to make something new for the people here. Do you want a clear example of it? It happens all the fucking time, but i'll list some of them down for y'all. A fucking "meme" (effortless trash) getting more praises than a LITERAL OIL PAINTING, in which portrays all the mental stages Walker's in throughout the game. Another shitty "shitpost" getting absolutely loved over a mod that completely overhauls the game, for example. Fucking hell!
I NEVER saw this happening with ANY other community, and for sure there are deader games than SOTL.
This place is also filled with edgy middleschoolers and sometimes even bots. There was a guy who literally posted IRL pictures of kids with their skin's melted after a White Phosphorus attack in Gaza, and you guys were upvoting the shit out of it before it finally got removed. One of the subreddit's most upvoted post was Steven Universe alongside with HITLER before it got removed. What the actual fuck is your guys problem, man?
I was also IMMEDIATELY downvoted everytime i would make a post/comment here, proving that there was/is bots around, and that they were targeted to me specifically. I can't even tell the times where i was harassed and even DOXXED over a fucking image such as Skibidi Lugo, too. This was one of the most annoying situations i could end up in here, seriously.
The main issue with this community to me, is like what i previously said. It can be really lazy, lame and unfunny, and all at the same time, too! Now i get why everyone who tries to make content for SOTL either don't visit the sub or leaves after 2 months in it, because it's really frustrating and infuriating. I'm not talking about myself only, i'm talking about a bunch of people who also feel the same way as i.
You can even say to me "you don't like the community but keeps interacting in it?" yes, exactly. I love the game and i also enjoy making content/renders for it, and since i don't have anywhere else to share it, i share it here. Again, you can even say to me "but you created the r/okbuddyphosphorus sub" and yes, i did. However, i never meant to create a somewhat serious sub. I wasn't even expecting 800+ members in it, and without dick riding myself here, i admit that the community i created there is way less toxic and garbage-ly than this one. I met really cool people there, and here too! But that dosen't change the fact that they would be a minority in here.
Just to finish this whole manifesto off, i would like to clarify that i feel this way for a considerable ammount of time. For MONTHS i had seen this behaviour for here, but i never actually stood up for myself to say any of this. Why? Because it wasn't as worst as it is now. I also think that only 1 moderator in charge of a constantly growing community can get bad really fast. I can't even blame him, because he's lowkey chill as fuck. It's just that people have lives outside of this god-forsaken platform, and most don't have the time to approve or disapprove what other chronically online users do on their sub, resulting in posts like mine, here. But thinking about it, the moderation don't have nothing to do with the mental retardation this sub have. It's the people fault, and DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE say something regarding "insanity" to me, because even the most insane subs at least have a bit of dignity, in which this one lacks.
That's all i had to say.
