Talks about otome games, drama cds, and occasionally provides advice? Running away endlessly from my backlog of hobbies.

Ilinox

Oddly, I find it easier to avoid hot spots in CN spaces, or maybe that's just my imagination LOL. Communities seem to be segregated better and people aren't as aggro, because content is marked if it's going to bash other groups, and people generally respect that and don't go in there to pick fights. If you did a disclaimer on Twitter telling one group to be careful because you were going to drag their blorbo, you would get dogpiled by said group LOL.

Also, I've mentioned this here and there but CN and JP communities, even if they start attacking each other, manage to stick to the topic. For example, arguments about otome games will only be about otome games and BG stuff. Meanwhile, on Twitter, arguments about otome games become racist, sexist, and the LGBT+ community gets involved.

That being said, I also have diaspora immunity where reading toxic things outside of English doesn't land as hard. It's like wearing glasses and, when you're sick of the bullshit in the world, you can take off your glasses and enjoy blessed blurriness. If I relax my attention then I don't process words as automatically as I do for English, and because I'm not used to hearing insults in other languages it just doesn't carry any heat LMAO.

I'm just a casual lurker, although sometimes I leave comments for my favorite content creators.

Oddly, I find it easier to avoid hot spots in CN spaces, or maybe that's just my imagination LOL. Communities seem to be segregated better and people aren't as aggro, because content is marked if it's going to bash other groups, and people generally respect that and don't go in there to pick fights. If you did a disclaimer on Twitter telling one group to be careful because you were going to drag their blorbo, you would get dogpiled by said group LOL.

Also, I've mentioned this here and there but CN and JP communities, even if they start attacking each other, manage to stick to the topic. For example, arguments about otome games will only be about otome games and BG stuff. Meanwhile, on Twitter, arguments about otome games become racist, sexist, and the LGBT+ community gets involved.

That being said, I also have diaspora immunity where reading toxic things outside of English doesn't land as hard. It's like wearing glasses and, when you're sick of the bullshit in the world, you can take off your glasses and enjoy blessed blurriness. If I relax my attention then I don't process words as automatically as I do for English, and because I'm not used to hearing insults in other languages it just doesn't carry any heat LMAO.

I'm just a casual lurker, although sometimes I leave comments for my favorite content creators.

Sometimes the drama and toxicity gets overwhelming when I’m lurking on the CN fandom side, so I’m wondering how you (assuming you do lol) personally avoid it? Blocking everywhere like on X or something else? Feels like my algorithm is even more sensitive over there

Also in general are you an active participamt over there (like livetwting and commenting) or just a casual lurker like me

Ilinox

Navigating CN drama