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it's really weird, like, all of this. cuz i personally haven't been hurt at all by anything that's going on, only for the members themselves who've been hurt. someone put out a list of lies because they don't like kat and drea.
but all of this tbh has brought out the best of doubt academy, like.. everyone is just so immensely supportive of one another and there is so much love and support in the chats. and you know what? not just in the chats. there have been tons of people i don't even know supporting doubt academy, realizing that every complaint lodged against the gms is somehow untrue, realizing every argument made by those who """hate""" doubt so much is so heavily skewed it's ridiculous. people can hate things for good reasons. i've talked to people who don't like group rp in general. that's fine!! you can keep on not liking group rps. do you.
but then, people attack the previous gms.
let me make a quick aside. dazy and i are gms now. when you say "the gms", you're implying that dazy and i are a part of this. we haven't done anything since halfway through da3 besides help. kat and drea have put so much hard work into both the game and into making it as safe a place as it can be for people - as evidenced by a lot of doubt academy players both current and previous flooding the tags with an outcry of support. go on some doubt academy characters' blogs. a lot of people wrote up little endgame blurbs about what doubt means to them. i've done it. so has a lot of other people.
if you say the gms are so terrible, now you're talking about dazy and i. da4 has been, in my experience, close, loving, and amazing. we have so much planned and such a great ride ahead of us, but the amount of people immediately writing it off as nothing is really weird to me. every doubt academy game is like a new game completely, just like every new (insert group title here) game is like a new game completely. but by attacking doubt academy and its "management system", you're attacking me and dazy, too. i don't take being attacked for no reason well, i expect to lose friendships from this because people are misinformed and want to spread their anger in any way they can rather than realize that sometimes, things are out of your control.
anyway, people are attacking the previous gms. that's the reason for this whole "war on doubt", right? oh, wait, no it's not, it's to bring doubt academy down a peg, to be on the level of other rp groups! oh wait, no it's not, because there is nobody saying that doubt academy is better than the other groups. please, send me a screenshot that was doubt academy is inherently better than other rp groups. have a nice little date on there, dated sometime before tonight. there won't be anything. doubt is just another rp group - everyone knows this. but doubt is a popular rp group. there is an important distinction between popularity and elitism.
popularity means a lot of people know about you.
elitism is acting like you're better.
doubt academy is the former, and only the former. nobody wants to realize that. doubt academy is only being shit on because it's popular, that's how it's always been. it's that simple. it's really obvious. i've tried to talk to people who wanted to spread the hate, i really did. but i received nothing back. not a single word. some people dislike kat and drea. i don't know why. some people don't like the members of doubt. i really don't know why. but nobody is going to want to talk this out because they don't even know why they're fighting. all they know is hearsay from anons who could all very well be the same one, two, maybe three people!! that's the power of being anonymous - you can appear as as many people as you want. we're rpers. we routinely act like we're not ourselves. maybe all those anons are different people. it saddens me that so many people believe in rampant misinformation spread by people who are mad that they didn't get into doubt, or they did shitty things and can't cope with the consequences. (that's the common factor it stems from, even from those uninvolved.)
basically what i'm saying is move on with our lives because both sides know this war on doubt is full of shit to begin with, we all know nobody's going to win, and all this is doing is hurting people. if you got burned, talk to someone. spreading your negativity without even bothering to talk about why that negativity happened is so unbelievably shitty - it's not us "trying to cover our tracks". it's us trying to make games better for future members. is that really so hard to believe???
if anyone wants to talk to me about this, go for it, please send an ask. but nobody will, that's a fact. people will make vagueblog posts about me and how i'm so evil. i'll get anon hate, get told i'm so ignorant of the facts when i'm standing right next to the facts and you saw a picture of the facts in a magazine once. (if there's any confusion whatsoever, i'm saying that i know the facts of the situation much better than most people. i've stayed quiet because this drama is completely irrelevant to everything. but a lot of my friends are hurt, so i'm stepping in.)
i have a couple different families. i have my blood family. i have my theater family, people who i work in amazing shows with, people i've grown close to and people i've grown to love and appreciate. and i also have my doubt family.
go ahead, try to convince people that it's wrong that i'm trying to defend something that i love, and something that means so much to me. go ahead, try to say that i'm the ignorant one, when all you've heard is "from a friend". go ahead, try to downplay what i'm saying for some random reason that makes no sense. whatever lol
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