Ageism in the LADS community.
I have been playing LOVE AND DEEPSPACE for a while now. I have reached level 54 and I have been enjoying it so far.
But what struck me and absolutely seems ridiculous to me, is the ageism within the fandom that's either slowly rearing its head or it was always there. Either way, I have seen many Tweets pop up on my timeline on Twitter (X) and I have to say…
It's not because a woman reached her late 20s or early 30s, or even reached her mid 40s, that she can't enjoy any hobbies!
What I have seen from other people is that the content for LADS is 18+. Which means 12 year olds and anyone else under the age of 18 or above, shouldn't even be playing this game! The content is not for you, clearly! The explicit scenes and audio make that more than clear. If you do decide to download the game and play it, you're responsible for being exposed to all the explicit content. Not the people who basically, so it seems, keeps the game alive because those people (women well over 18) are able to afford passes and to buy all sorts of material in order to get the full story.
I, myself, am F2P for now but I won't sit here and tolerate some teenager or 18 year-old whining about grown women playing a game that is not even catering towards a much younger audience.
Women, grown women with a job, started fandom spaces. It's because of them we now have a wide fandom centered space like Twitter (X), Tumblr and Reddit (to name a few). But to attack those women for their age and the fact they enjoy a game is absolutely RIDICULOUS.
Why don't you grow up instead? Why don't you jsut realise that life doesn't end at 29.
Life didn't end for me! I'm 29 years old and life is still going for me. It didn't end. Neither does it end when I'll turn 30. Why? Because I'll still have my hobbies.
I'll still be writing fanfiction, most likely and I will still enjoy Otome gacha games because sometimes I don't want to be faced with the responsibilities of an adult.
Games like LADS offer a way for us all to escape the boring routine of our daily lives. It's like reading a book. It offers us a way to relax and put our feet up. If some teenager is whining about it because god forbid it's a YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, then I will simply tell the teenager: "mind your own business". We all have genres we like in books. We all have games we like and we all consume media daily.
So why act like any fandom space should exclude women and men over 18? When fandom spaces were created by people, women, in their 30s. Just mind your own business and let us enjoy our damn game.
We're not harming anyone by just enjoying our sexy LADS men and commenting on or reposting a tweet we like.