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Sims 4 Toxic Twitter
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What are your thoughts about this article here:
https://thegamer.com/the-sims-4-toxic-twitter/
I'm talking specifically about users attacking others for liking or enjoying the Sims 4. Is anyone else sick of this toxic negativity?
https://thegamer.com/the-sims-4-toxic-twitter/
I'm talking specifically about users attacking others for liking or enjoying the Sims 4. Is anyone else sick of this toxic negativity?
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On Twitter it only takes one person to say something negative, then 100's of sheep (followers) chime in with a similar or same rant. Sad thing is, I've read many times people said they say they don't like TS4 even tho they secretly do because they get bashed if they praise any part of it. Twitter is a very clique-y, popularity site, the more likes and followers you get from posts you make, they more important it makes you feel. That's the generation The Sims is marketing to, that demographics. Young people who only want to follow the "cool" kids and not speak on their own behalf.
But this is why I much prefer the Forums. It's more heavily moderated here, you can report troublemakers, and choose which threads to be (or not be) part of.
The article does touch on something important, though. The devs use Twitter to open up an avenue of communication with their player base, and since they've been more active on there, we get more information than we used to. But more and more Gurus are falling back into the background and going silent again, most likely because of the people who don't seem to be able to control themselves and their attitudes. I just hope that we can keep the Forums civil enough for them to consider more activity over here.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Sometimes you have to rant when you want to get your point across. It's not being toxic in my opinion. Sometimes you try civilised polite ways of doing things but those don't work. You feel as though you are a faint whisper amongst a crowd of shouting individuals and you can't speak any louder than you already are. This can be very upsetting, toxic and triggering to some and out of both love for this franchise and the pain of being ignored and forgotten people have had enough and start a rant. That isn't toxic just that we all have our "breaking point" and you never know what is going on in other simmers lives when they start a rant. There could be a lot of things happening in the lives of others and their way to distress and unwind has failed to help them. There are many things that trigger rants.
Everyone get a cat or dog and start petting them. It'll make you forget all the toxicity on the internet Plushies work too by squeezing and holding them. You are never too old for plushies.
My niece pointed out that when you don't see a face you might be a little ruder kind of like talking smack behind someone's back.
That isn't just a Twitter thing, it happens right here as well.
This "toxicity" has been a part of the sims 4 community and part of online communities in general since the beginning of the game and long before. It's weird to look at the very real material conditions of the world and how so many people are dealing with extra stress and sometimes extremely disruptive and destructive material conditions, and then say the problem is actually not that, but a small number of twitter users.
No one is going to make twitter wholesome, sorry. It's a website that pits people against each other based on clout and takedowns, and when it's not doing that, most of it is shallow viral marketing. I've been on smaller parts of twitter that actively try to be supportive and some people really do their best to make the most of it, but it's a website that inherently, through the infinite wisdom of mediocre algorithms, gives some voices more power than others for inscrutable reasons and a lot of those voices use them irresponsibly, on top of lots of voices with little power taking their anger out on complete strangers, possibly in part because they have no voice for no apparent reason.
People like the article writer are probably expected to be on twitter as part of their job, which makes them more likely to have an audience and more unlikely to be able to escape to worst parts of twitter, which is probably where this is coming from. I've yet to hear from someone who has a sizable platform on twitter who actually enjoys how the website works.
That said, it's just hard to read an article like this, making it sound like some people on twitter is the biggest problem with a singleplayer video game, knowing what people are going through in RL. On top of that, knowing that the sims 4 is probably one of the least toxic communities there is in video games and if that surprises you, you don't want to know how awful some of the worst of people can be in some game communities. And on top of that, knowing that blaming video game communities for being big mad is a common deflection used in video game media when a game is suffering from bad PR.
Nobody has an answer for how to resolve this stuff beyond encouraging other people to "be nice" because: 1) to some extent, the answer is for this paid product to be better quality and nothing else will soothe people who are in a certain kind of place of discontent with it, short of leaving the community entirely and 2) these platforms we call "communities" are built primarily for marketing and discussion, in that order. They are not built with human connection in mind and there is generally nothing connecting people other than how much love they have for a product in a given moment. If you want a community that won't be "toxic," you're gonna have to make one and figure out how to connect people on a level deeper than their current level of enjoyment of a product.
I did laugh at this part because it feels like Twitter already feels like a toddler in a snowsuit and anyone who has raised kids know putting a toddler in a snowsuit is miserable for them and so not wholesome. " Keep your criticism in check and together we can make Sims Twitter as wholesome as a toddler in a snowsuit." They will cry and wet and poop that snowsuit is the reality of it.
This is my exact experience. It's so mentally draining. There are even simmers to dedicatedly post negativity about ts4 Evey single day without fail. And if anyone says anything positive the gang jumps on them. They roast gurus and tag them in nonsense all day. I always say this but humanity has truly fallen and it's a sad thing to see.😒 all thos over a video game...
I even tried to filter out the negative posters and still see it all over the place so I gave up.
I'm barely on there now. Infact I'm ready to delete the app as soon as ts4 ends. But as of now it's one of the best sources of ts4 info and direct connection with gurus. So I pop up for guru tweets and pack info.
I thought the forums were bad but Twitter is on a new level of negative crazy 😅😅
This is something I definitely noticed. When I first joined Twitter to keep up with the simgurus they were posting way more. Simguruninja in particular would retweet cool sim stuff he found and was always sharing or tweeting something. Now it's barely anything from any of them except strict pack promotion. The occasional dog or food pic and I don't blame them one bit. I think it's to the point where they don't even want to interact with simmers. 😔
I for one let my Sims Flag Fly and if anyone tries to make me feel bad for loving the sims, well I feel bad for them more for not having something to love.
Yea one of the game changers, not sure of her name because I don't keep up with them much, left Twitter temporarily after exploding on simmers to stop all the toxic behavior. And everyone started roasting her for it so she had to take a break. Probably were others too. People may think it doesn't mean anything but overwhelming negativity affects your mental health and adds unneeded stress on your brain.
It's just madness and I had no idea the sims community was such an unwelcoming place.
There was even this one simmer who made a voice message cursing out another fellow simmer by name just for likening ts4. It was very offensive and unnecessary. I was done. 😐
Mind blowing...🤯 and celebrated that ts4 didn't win.