Is the community of AC becoming toxic?
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elphieluvr
Wave-Tossed Mermaid ~ she/her
lol, I guess I just find hitting villagers with nets funny. My brother and I also have a contest when we visit each other to see who can sneak attack each other with the net first. We just do it to be silly, there’s no ill intentions behind it.
Some people are saying that it's not as toxic as other fandoms. While I agree with that statement, it doesn't mean AC's community didn't become (or already wasn't before) toxic.
But I also have to question what exactly means "toxic", as different people qualify a fandom as being toxic for different reasons. Some say it has become toxic simply for the fact that there's people ranting and complaining about things in the game and/or in the community. And I disagree completely with that notion. A community isn't a "hugbox" or an "echo-chamber", at least not a healthy one. If anything, hugboxes and echo-chambers are much more prone to toxicity than communities where people with different opinions, ideas and points of view discuss openly about the subject in question.
Examples of toxic communities are FIFA's, Final Fantasy's and COD's. In those communities, people will often attack and disrespect other members with insults, threats and even doxxing. Disagreement isn't toxicity, and when someone thinks it is, then we have a huge problem.
These are my two cents, and I won't say another word on the matter.
But I also have to question what exactly means "toxic", as different people qualify a fandom as being toxic for different reasons. Some say it has become toxic simply for the fact that there's people ranting and complaining about things in the game and/or in the community. And I disagree completely with that notion. A community isn't a "hugbox" or an "echo-chamber", at least not a healthy one. If anything, hugboxes and echo-chambers are much more prone to toxicity than communities where people with different opinions, ideas and points of view discuss openly about the subject in question.
Examples of toxic communities are FIFA's, Final Fantasy's and COD's. In those communities, people will often attack and disrespect other members with insults, threats and even doxxing. Disagreement isn't toxicity, and when someone thinks it is, then we have a huge problem.
These are my two cents, and I won't say another word on the matter.
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There's good and bad people in every group. Due to the laid back nature of the game, the fans tend to be more laid back as well. Because Animal Crossing is the current fad, however, everyone is hopping on board so we're seeing a much wider audience getting involved in this game than is typical. As with anything that increases in popularity, you are going to see more interactions between players, both positive and negative. I wouldn't say the fandom is toxic... I just think that the negativity sadly ends up being more loud than the positivity. There are plenty of good and beautiful things happening between people because of this game, they just tend to be more quiet and not spread around as much.
thatveryawkwardmayor
yikes!
can someone give examples of toxicity in the AC fandom because i can’t think of any. i think TT discourse and the busted game economy are pretty mild, unless you consider the hate among “ugly” villagers and tier popularity toxic.
ive been in other fandoms where the toxicity was way wayyy worse (i.e doxxing)
ive been in other fandoms where the toxicity was way wayyy worse (i.e doxxing)
With any community, more popularity = more toxicity. NH has exploded in popularity lately and as a result, there are way more "toxic" fans than in the past. The most toxic gaming communities out there involve a lot of competition/PvP. NH is a lot more of a design sim compared to previous games, and I've seen way more jealousy and insecurities come out of people comparing towns like it's a competition lol. This ties in to people trying to put down amazing towns by criticizing TTing, villager trading, etc.
daisyy
Late-Night Egg
literally any community, internet or otherwise, has toxic pockets. i still find that the ac community is overwhelmingly positive compared to others, even with all the changes and new members.
DinoTown
Festive Fossil
... Is this an actual thing that the anti-TTers have done? Like an actual thing and not just an example you made up?
That's... that's the biggest leap in logic it makes my brain hurt.
Thank god I've not seen anything like that here.
thatveryawkwardmayor
yikes!
TTers did 9/11 /s
It's only on Twitter. The person locked their account because I think more famous people caught on and called them out for going feral over TTing. I'm not sure if someone SS'd the whole tweet chain though. That was hilarious as hell.
thatveryawkwardmayor
yikes!
wait i saw that tweet lmfaooo that thread was the best thing to come out of NH tbh
DinoTown
Festive Fossil
of course... how could we have been so blind
It sounds legitimately insane and I'm growing more and more glad that I have basically never used my Twitter account
If you find the right community you can stay out of the toxicity. TBT and some small AC discord channels I frequent are great. But places like twitter bleed toxic for AC. I hated seeing all those anti-TT and pro-TT posts on my feed. Both hardcore groups are equally annoying.
I honestly feel like Animal Crossing can be just as bad as some of the other communities because with some of them it's expected. The game in question is competitive or the such. It's jarring to see it with a chill game like AC, but it's just as frequent if you look in the right place.
And if you look in the right place you can find a pretty rad community for smash or any other competitive game. I remember frequenting one channel where we would get together to watch the directs before AC2019 was hinted. And oh my god the salt was unreal. People were swearing off Nintendo and that they were such and such system fans now, were going to boycott Nintendo. And when it was delayed to 2020 cue more rage...and during the pandemic people were badgering Nintendo to release the game earlier because screw people's safety and health I want my AC.
So yeah AC can and is just as toxic if you look in the right places. Just stay away from those fans.
I honestly feel like Animal Crossing can be just as bad as some of the other communities because with some of them it's expected. The game in question is competitive or the such. It's jarring to see it with a chill game like AC, but it's just as frequent if you look in the right place.
And if you look in the right place you can find a pretty rad community for smash or any other competitive game. I remember frequenting one channel where we would get together to watch the directs before AC2019 was hinted. And oh my god the salt was unreal. People were swearing off Nintendo and that they were such and such system fans now, were going to boycott Nintendo. And when it was delayed to 2020 cue more rage...and during the pandemic people were badgering Nintendo to release the game earlier because screw people's safety and health I want my AC.
So yeah AC can and is just as toxic if you look in the right places. Just stay away from those fans.
For real. I thought they were joking tbh until I saw most of their posts. They haven't unlocked until now so that's more funny.
Yeah. Twitter's no good unless you just wanna admire art. Some people are just...rly bad there.
i don't think it's becoming toxic at all! if anything i think animal crossing's popularity was just MAJORLY boosted with new horizons' release and i guess it's kind of like.... trendy right now? i don't mean that in Le Epic Hipster way i just mean the fanbase feels bigger than it's ever been, and due to the large amount of people into it right now you're (unfortunately) more likely to find weirdos too! this applies to any fanbase and i think it's the same reason communities for MASSIVELY popular things/stuff popular with kids (fnaf, undertale, my hero academia)/etc have a reputation for being "toxic". they're not actually bad, they're just huge making it SEEM like there's more bad people
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