Hi everyone, this is an important announcement post from me regarding DW.
I won’t be discussing the current situation happening with Qwel, as i’m not in any position to nor do i wish to make a statement on it (though i recommend researching it yourself)
It’s likely that i will be leaving the DW fandom, and i’ve got reasons for it.
This situation is not at all the sole reason i’m leaving, but this is most definitely my last straw, and i feel simultaneously horrible and relieved having to say goodbye to DW.
This fandom has given me a lot. My amazing friends and my dear following and fans, it offered me joy, it expanded my art skills, it got me through the toughest of times in my life, it helped me overcome my severe social anxiety, it brought me so much good and i am forever grateful for it, but at the same time DW has do many issues
And i’m ready to admit that DW is just mediocre as a whole.
The gameplay has been staying stagnant for so long now, there hasn’t been a single meaningful update in so long — it’s all just grinding and farming and all sorts of boring crap, the game hasn’t been moving forward at all even after Rox left and it’s disappointing. I don’t play the game for months on end because it’s simply so boring and unbearable to play, and i honestly don’t think that the game really has a chance at improving considering the kinds of choices Qwel makes in the development of the game.
The lore and storyline and characters aren’t any better, in the 2 years of this game existing there’s still barely anything, most of the characters aren’t explored at all, and even Sprout and Cosmo — two characters that i loved more than ANY characters before ever — are SO lackluster when it comes to their character and story and relationship… all i ever see is potential that is never explored, the only reason any of these characters are actually enjoyable to any capacity is due to fan intervention, otherwise they’re just empty shells.
The fandom is just a mess, and so so very full of toxicity. I shouldn’t have to receive rape and death threats for simply enjoying fruitcake, i shouldn’t have been pushed to attempt suicide in the past by this fandom, i shouldn’t have had to block at least 2-3k people on TikTok alone because of the tremendous amount of hate comments on my videos, and yet it all happened, and it’s not even the worst of it. This fandom continues to support and love crappy people within the community, it continues to harass innocent creators, it just never gets better — everywhere i look it’s always the same old crap, there’s always new dramas and controversies and situations everywhere i look, i simply can’t rest for one second without finding out that some new bothersome thing came up within the community, there is a reason i left Twitter after all. And it’s so very disappointing.
This whole entire game is just all unexplored potential. I have submerged myself in this fandom for 2 whole years, but now that my interest for the game started dying down i started interacting with other media and i realized that, quite frankly, Dandy’s world is just… not all that good. There’s not a single aspect of the game i can call truly good. It’s simply mediocre everywhere you look, and i cannot stick around any longer when everything in it bores me to death
Qwelver is simply not a good game developer, or a story writer, or an artist if we really have to go that direction, and she made poor choices not only with how she treats people, but how she treats her game.
What does this mean for me and my own “fanbase”?
I will likely post whatever unfinished or abandoned content i made for DW/fruitcake on TikTok as my final goodbye, and afterwards i may try and post things for other fandoms instead. I have always been multifandom, it’s just that previously i never engaged with other fandoms very openly. Hopefully you, my dear followers, will see me engage in other content you like as well and stick around for art outside of DW, if you don’t i can’t hold you back — but just know i cherish the recognition this fandom brought me truly, and being a semi-known artist in a community is one of the most flattering things that has ever happened to me. Your support means so much to me and always has, and it kept me going when i felt like i was failing as an artist. Thank you so much for being my fans, and thank you so much if you choose to stick around for whatever art i make in the future 🥹🩷
