That's why I don't buy the whole "your friends are not your audience". Your friends not liking your art is weird. I will definitely pay more attention to that in the future and stop thinking it's silly or ridiculous to be upset about this because apparently the cause is often secret resentment.
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
That's why I don't buy the whole "your friends are not your audience". Your friends not liking your art is weird. I will definitely pay more attention to that in the future and stop thinking it's silly or ridiculous to be upset about this because apparently the cause is often secret resentment.
Not to mention, as soon as I started talking about art, the main bully immediately felt the need to bring the attention to her and spam the chat with her art. Damn all the signs were there. I was too desperate to still have a group of friends in this game to see it.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Not to mention, as soon as I started talking about art, the main bully immediately felt the need to bring the attention to her and spam the chat with her art. Damn all the signs were there. I was too desperate to still have a group of friends in this game to see it.
I found this quite weird cause which ffxiv mfs doesn't want free art ? Made several calls back about it on the discord chat and even by dms. I was ignored as usual and nobody sent me screen ref. I innocently assumed they just didn't like my art style but nah they were really just hating my guts.
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I found this quite weird cause which ffxiv mfs doesn't want free art ? Made several calls back about it on the discord chat and even by dms. I was ignored as usual and nobody sent me screen ref. I innocently assumed they just didn't like my art style but nah they were really just hating my guts.
I will keep drawing Annshera cause I love to draw her and maybe some other ocs and characters but as far as I am concerned I will treat ffxiv as if the game was discontinued. I'm done.
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I will keep drawing Annshera cause I love to draw her and maybe some other ocs and characters but as far as I am concerned I will treat ffxiv as if the game was discontinued. I'm done.
I had my far share of bad experiences in this game and fandom but what happened with that dreadful static was my last straw. I was already barely playing for months, only logging in for raid sessions, completely stopped the game ever since. I had enough, I won't come back.
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I had my far share of bad experiences in this game and fandom but what happened with that dreadful static was my last straw. I was already barely playing for months, only logging in for raid sessions, completely stopped the game ever since. I had enough, I won't come back.
I was subbing, logging in once a month to keep my house in Ishgard because I need time to make a decision but after what I've learnt today, I'll let it go. I don't want anything to do with this racist fandom nor play that game anymore.
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I was subbing, logging in once a month to keep my house in Ishgard because I need time to make a decision but after what I've learnt today, I'll let it go. I don't want anything to do with this racist fandom nor play that game anymore.
I never hid that I'm black but I also didn't mentionned it. My guess is when that off tank weirdo arrived, she searched for all of us, discovered I'm black, told everyone and they changed their behavior towards me. No problem for years until her arrival and so much persecution, must be racism.
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I never hid that I'm black but I also didn't mentionned it. My guess is when that off tank weirdo arrived, she searched for all of us, discovered I'm black, told everyone and they changed their behavior towards me. No problem for years until her arrival and so much persecution, must be racism.
I got kicked from the channel and blocked. I was there 3 years and half. I saw people come and go, we never kicked anyone who left because even if they stop raiding, they are other content, we could do other things. Yet once again I got specific bad treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I got kicked from the channel and blocked. I was there 3 years and half. I saw people come and go, we never kicked anyone who left because even if they stop raiding, they are other content, we could do other things. Yet once again I got specific bad treatment.
One week after, the off tank and some of her friends stalked my insta and probably read and screen the story I made to explain my friends that I deactivated my account because that situation with the static made me very depressed.
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
One week after, the off tank and some of her friends stalked my insta and probably read and screen the story I made to explain my friends that I deactivated my account because that situation with the static made me very depressed.
She made everyone believed I ghosted the static without mentioning the ultimatum she gave me nor the fact she told me that basically everyone hated me in the static and wanted to me gone.
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
She made everyone believed I ghosted the static without mentioning the ultimatum she gave me nor the fact she told me that basically everyone hated me in the static and wanted to me gone.
One time, we had a bad night on m7s and then I was met with an ultimatum by the raid lead telling me to leave before being kicked. So I left I learn today cause the smn finally answeredmy messages after they managed to alienate her from me as well, the raid lead never communicated that I left.
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
One time, we had a bad night on m7s and then I was met with an ultimatum by the raid lead telling me to leave before being kicked. So I left I learn today cause the smn finally answeredmy messages after they managed to alienate her from me as well, the raid lead never communicated that I left.
Overall they ignored me on voice and text chat. Nobody was saying hello to me. My questions, remarks, calls outs ignored to the point the summoner had to repeat it for me to be acknowledged. Shades thrown at me and passive agressivity.
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Overall they ignored me on voice and text chat. Nobody was saying hello to me. My questions, remarks, calls outs ignored to the point the summoner had to repeat it for me to be acknowledged. Shades thrown at me and passive agressivity.
They also lied about going blind while they were already progging. Lied about clearing fights outside of the static session. A collective gaslighting to make me look like I was the weak spot of the team.
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
They also lied about going blind while they were already progging. Lied about clearing fights outside of the static session. A collective gaslighting to make me look like I was the weak spot of the team.
We agreed on 2 sessions of 3h per week but they started to make secret prog sessions outside of it in order to gaslight me into thinking I was slow to learn mechanic, omitting they were secretly spending much more time progging than me (like sorry to have a life lol).
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
We agreed on 2 sessions of 3h per week but they started to make secret prog sessions outside of it in order to gaslight me into thinking I was slow to learn mechanic, omitting they were secretly spending much more time progging than me (like sorry to have a life lol).
Yet I was still managed to be 2nd dps while the dancer was below the tank and nobody ever shamed her nor bullied her contrary to me. We previously agreed on dps priority for loots. It weirdly didn't apply to me somehow.
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Yet I was still managed to be 2nd dps while the dancer was below the tank and nobody ever shamed her nor bullied her contrary to me. We previously agreed on dps priority for loots. It weirdly didn't apply to me somehow.
After that I was starting to be blamed for enrages, my dps and dying too much, while I was dealing with a hostile off-tank and stack partner who kept killing me. Healers who did want to heal or raise me. I had to wait to the summoner (only person who liked me on that static) to raise me.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
After that I was starting to be blamed for enrages, my dps and dying too much, while I was dealing with a hostile off-tank and stack partner who kept killing me. Healers who did want to heal or raise me. I had to wait to the summoner (only person who liked me on that static) to raise me.
Turning off her tank stance to make me die by tank buster, not taking tank tether she was supposed to take. Blaming me for wipe I didn't cause. Disrupting our rhythm doing prog without us and complain we were being too slow. Overall starting to treat savage raiding like ultimate.
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Turning off her tank stance to make me die by tank buster, not taking tank tether she was supposed to take. Blaming me for wipe I didn't cause. Disrupting our rhythm doing prog without us and complain we were being too slow. Overall starting to treat savage raiding like ultimate.
At the beginning of Dawmtrial raid a new ot showed up bringing absolutely awful vibes to the static. Somehow she decided to target me. Ruining my dps killing me on purpose because she refused to stack with me on mechanic, stealing my clockspot on spread mechanics,
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
At the beginning of Dawmtrial raid a new ot showed up bringing absolutely awful vibes to the static. Somehow she decided to target me. Ruining my dps killing me on purpose because she refused to stack with me on mechanic, stealing my clockspot on spread mechanics,