I just dislike the fandom, really, I find I feel physically sick whenever I look up fanart or stuff like that, I feel there is a very subtly toxic undercurrent to a lot of fan content that I can't stand, that some people only make fan content because Deltarune is semi-popular and other people use it as a maladaptive comfort and become very possesive over the characters, and an over-abundance of fluff content often leaves me uninspired and drained. I didn't want my part with the Deltarune comunity to leave me feeling so torn between their idea of comfort and my idea of content. I feel the overwhelming vibe I get from content pulls me down and halts creative growth in comparison to something like, say, Katamari. I got into Deltarune to find a ballence of normality and stability, but I just feel disgust and repulsion as a common emotion now. The divide between the game and the fanbase is the issue, while the game seeks to innovate and expand player's mind, the fandom seeks to
@frogbun stick to what has already been done and shrink people's minds.
I don't want to shrink, I don't want to be less, but the fandom's social attitude sticks to me and gives me panic attacks. I should have clarified, I will still be making Deltarune related content, but I will no longer engage or interact with the Deltarune community, because it's bad for my mental health. I don't think I could give up Deltarune entirely, and, I want to make something beautiful inspired by Deltarune. Unfortunatly, the Deltarune community is not a melting pot of inspiration and ideas as I hoped, instead, it is simply a place for people to drool over asthetics and make characters do random funny things based off of a meme that was popular 5 years ago. Nothing wrong with that really, but it is the opposite of the reason I play video games and make art.
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21 May, 2022, 5:14 am
oh no, what happened if you don't mind me asking? you don't have to reply ofc.
21 May, 2022, 6:06 am
@frogbun
I just dislike the fandom, really, I find I feel physically sick whenever I look up fanart or stuff like that, I feel there is a very subtly toxic undercurrent to a lot of fan content that I can't stand, that some people only make fan content because Deltarune is semi-popular and other people use it as a maladaptive comfort and become very possesive over the characters, and an over-abundance of fluff content often leaves me uninspired and drained.
I didn't want my part with the Deltarune comunity to leave me feeling so torn between their idea of comfort and my idea of content.
I feel the overwhelming vibe I get from content pulls me down and halts creative growth in comparison to something like, say, Katamari.
I got into Deltarune to find a ballence of normality and stability, but I just feel disgust and repulsion as a common emotion now.
The divide between the game and the fanbase is the issue, while the game seeks to innovate and expand player's mind, the fandom seeks to
21 May, 2022, 6:13 am
@frogbun
stick to what has already been done and shrink people's minds.
I don't want to shrink, I don't want to be less, but the fandom's social attitude sticks to me and gives me panic attacks.
I should have clarified, I will still be making Deltarune related content, but I will no longer engage or interact with the Deltarune community, because it's bad for my mental health.
I don't think I could give up Deltarune entirely, and, I want to make something beautiful inspired by Deltarune.
Unfortunatly, the Deltarune community is not a melting pot of inspiration and ideas as I hoped, instead, it is simply a place for people to drool over asthetics and make characters do random funny things based off of a meme that was popular 5 years ago.
Nothing wrong with that really, but it is the opposite of the reason I play video games and make art.
21 May, 2022, 7:21 am
I think the Undertale AUs Community on Amino sounds more healhy than Deltarune then.... igh
22 May, 2022, 4:14 am
@HammerdStardust makes sense, i don't think i'd want to be in a fandom like that either. sounds quite draining.