I left the VVO discord, because I ran into some homophobia on the discord today, and it surprised me, coming from this community, during pride month.
Note: I probably misspelled some names and misquoted some things because I left the discord so I have nothing to reference. I won't rejoin just to get a quote to post here.
What happened: I was hanging out on the discord server, chatting a bit about Ms Marvel... and at first I thought it sucked because critics seem to be exclusively reporting on the review bombing, rather than the content of the show. If it's good, then why aren't they falling all over themselves to tell me how good the show is, instead of how bad these weirdos from 4chan are? Then I learned a bit more about Ms Marvel, from Wikipedia, and now I think the show was probably made as a culture war product by Disney, to bait culture war types into reacting (I think marketers call it 'engagement' when they piss people off). So maybe the critics are right to report on the review bombing? If it's a cynical attempt to drive 'engagement' from culture warriors, then maybe there's not much substance in the show to write about? I haven't actually seen the show yet, though, so this is all speculation. I made that clear throughout the conversation that I haven't seen the show yet but I plan to.
I was having a normal conversation about this with one or two other people, and NyteWitch kept interjecting with really nasty comments. She didn't really respond to me, she just did things like complain that I type too much. I offered to type slower for her, if that would help her reading comprehension, but she didn't seem to want any special accommodations. Then she got even more excited. I was like "switch to decaf or smoke a blunt or something" (I'm paraphrasing). She told me to, "suck a dick."
Now, my avatar on discord is a photo of my male SL avatar. Also, during the conversation I mentioned that I had a GF who was into YA fic... so she clearly assumed I was a straight man, and "suck a dick" would be an insult. She was insulting me by calling me gay. Let me repeat that...
She called me gay as an insult!
I am actually bisexual, and I had already sucked dick today, so I told her that, and then I called her out on her homophobia. At that point, many others in the discord seemed to jump on me, saying I'm wrong. How could somebody as wonderful as NyteWitch be a bigot? (at some point somebody said it's ok for her to behave like this because she's a scorpion or something? Because it's ok for scorpions to hate gay people? WTF?)
In the end, it's all there in black and white. She thinks it's humiliating for a man to suck dick. She's a bigot, and so are all the people who defended her.
So Artemis gave me a one hour time out. He did NOTHING to NyteWitch. I IMed him to tell him to fuck off and left the server.
I'm very disappointed in the VVO community on discord. I know I'm not popular, and I know you guys disagree with me a lot. I try to be nice, to get along easier, when I can. I really expected better behavior than this, though. Not only from NyteWich, but from all the people who defended her. The VVO discord really is full of bigotry and hatred. I think, at some point, Christiano will catch on to how conversations there are going and shut it down.