Sometimes, and sometimes its just trying too hard with the bait. Id appreciate the humor better if it was organic rather then picking any straw to **** on the show. It gets annoying after the first few times, esp when theres deliberate bait to ignite flame wars, its exhausting. Even more so saddening to see people whose critiques and opinions I actually appreciated once to go down the rabbit holes of claiming his posts have substance beyond the trolling that guy does. This show has always been one I just watch coz of nostalgia coz I find it adorable and when I made an account here during SM's third year it was because it was fun to read people's posts here and I wanted to join in and just vibe with a community about a show. I dont mind playfully poking fun at it either coz its far from good quality but still is endearing, but at this point everytime I come here I dread just seeing my notifs instead of being excited before because its a constant arguments, flame wars and just negativity. Criticism can exist without a toxic atmosphere being created where it feels like we are factions of people at each other's throats, not that there wasnt toxicity beforehand but its just overbearing at this point, the fun community back in SM third year also barely post anything here which I cant blame them, its exhausting. Im probably overreacting here and going too deep into it but its frustrating at this point that well a comfort show's community has come to this where Im now actively trying to break my habits to come and interact here
While I cannot claim that the toxicity
didn't exist in Sun & Moon's era either as even back then I saw plenty of people here who seemed to want nothing more but to demean literally everything the current series was doing... Yeah pretty much. The negativity these days is
exhausting, and I say that as someone who
also is not really that big on this current series. (Currently sitting at a 5/10 on my anime list... With Sun & Moon being an 8.) But it's like, every time I look here I
only see negativity. Even in the episodes I
liked. (The jabs at Jimeleon here being a good example considering that I
loved how that episode resolved itself and thought it genuinely taught a very good lesson about how there are some cases where the only thing you
can do for someone is leave them be, and where any attempt at cheering them up will only make them more miserable.)
...I have to wonder if part of the problem is just that at least with Sun & Moon or XY, there was
also a sizeable chunk of people who
really loved those series, whereas here it kinda feels like we've got a mix of people who hate the show and... people who kinda-sorta like it a little bit?