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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
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I've always been pathologically unwilling to be part of a community. I miss out on a lot, I'm sure. It's not a healthy way to be, and I'm not saying it's a good thing.
It's just that I'm into things like anime and video games and all that nerd shit. Every community has Those People that I don't want to be associated with. They aren't even the majority, but when a person who doesn't know much about anime hears "anime lover" they think of a dude doing a Naruto run in public. When they hear "Star Trek" they think of the comic book guy from Simpsons. Etc.
I know exactly what you mean. I've always wanted to know why our hobbies have the worst people in it.
All hobbies have the worst people in it. I realized one day, that they are everywhere, not just in our hobbies.
It's rare to find a community that doesn't corrupt the original itent it was built around. Look at organized religion. Doesn't speak well to humanity in general I'm afraid.
The bigger the community, the more attractive it gets for the kind of people who just want to see the world burn.
Not even so much that, I just think at a certain critical mass the law of averages kicks in and you just kind of get... the status quo. Like, a good share of people are decent, another good share are so-so, another good share are kind of nasty. So, put all that together and you get something that looks a lot like humanity in general: always just slightly disappointing.