lnferno
Blazing Creator
I'm pretty sure what he is referring to is the sheer hostility everyone exhibited towards him for his behavior, which is honestly just Thursday if you are on these forums. He acted up and got slapped silly by both people trying to civilly address his points and people being ultra-hostile, as was pointed out. If anything, this sort of behavior indicates a sort of focus on thyself to an unhealthy degree, which, as pointed out, is a bad sign for his mental health.I can't tell if I'm missing context here or if he's pulling most of this out of the ether. "I gravely underestimated what this community is capable of when it's angry." What does he mean by this? Surely he's not just talking about his ban? I'm not aware of anything more drastic than him getting banned happening, and him getting banned is, well, Thursday all things considered. People get banned as consequences for their behavior from many communities on a regular basis. Did something else happen prompting him to say this, or is it just a massive overreaction? "Despite their best efforts, however, I'm not changing my stances on anything." I haven't seen any context for this either. Which stances of his did the SRB2 community try so hard to make him change? "I'm still standing after all this time." He makes it sound as if he's a victim of the community banding together to take him out or something, which definitely did not happen. If anything, people are far more concerned for his mental well being than they are against him.
Honestly the more I try to understand and rationalize his actions the more my head hurts. I genuinely hope he's able to recover and move past... Whatever it is that's going on with him. It seems like he might be going through some heavy emotions that are clouding his perception of things, and if so I hope he'll be alright.
Also, said stances were his unwarranted hostility towards STJr., basically. Not a single person, from what I can recall, actually looked down on him for his critiques. They looked down on him for being toxic and hostile. Whilst I concur that some people absolutely did similar remarks back, and that this wasn't warranted, the main people in the conversation were largely civil, just upset with him. However, he was hostile back, which seems to have been due to feeling under attack from even the more civil individuals. He has likely become so entrenched in believing that he was 'betrayed' that he felt like he was being gaslit or demeaned/mocked. I've had my moments of emotions leading to civil remarks being interpreted as mockery/an attack on me. I typically regret it when it happens, but it does help me to potentially understand why he doubled and tripled down.
I hope I didn't come off as needlessly hostile myself, but I personally cannot stand people who have no ability to reflect on their own actions, even more so now after the obvious. I do hope he eventually is able to reflect on his actions and grow a less "woe is me" world view, but from experience, that is unlikely. People get entrenched in this sort of attitude to the point where the trench becomes a chasm that they can barely see sunlight in, and then grow more and more unhinged over time as people call them out on their behavior, digging the chasm into a crack in the Earth going straight to the core. This can only be halted by self-reflection.
However, as Rolly Polly mentioned, he has fallen into an echo chamber of his own design that will only accelerate this after being thrown out of the community. When there is only people who agree with you on everything in your average day, you become trapped in a feedback loop that radicalizes your own ideas, forging this very self-focus.
Hopefully this can be the finale to this thread.
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