doesn't matter if you're on cohost, mastodon, twitter, discord or a random gamefaqs board: you WILL see people get incredibly fucking butthurt if you criticize FFXIV in any way whatsoever and you will simply have to deal with it i would be mad but FFXIV's fanbase is literally no different from any other primarily white space, despite constantly espousing how warm and welcoming and friendly it is: if you're brown then shut the fuck up, do not talk about the weirdo racist shit in the game itself or its fandom, do not pass go, do not collect $200. the amount of vagueposting i've caught from my yoshi-p post on here in the FFXIV tag is funny as fuck. i will not stop clowning on this game's shit, and i don't need to "wait and see" when it comes to this expansion. I have seen. i've seen it in FFXVI, and i've seen it in this MMO too. i played this game longer than some of you fuckers have been adults, sit the fuck down. you're allowed to love and have fun with your uwu anime catgirl mmo. if me griping about how this game treats POC, and how it handles colonialization and indigenous people is enough to make you this upset? fucking good. you have now learned what it's like to be a minority for a fraction of a fraction of my lifespan. clown asses. ## hold on i'm not done cooking really stop and ask yourself why your kneejerk reaction to someone complaining about the optics of ur anime game is writing five hundred paragraphs defending it. do that for a second. i'll wait. i understand being attached to media. half of my personality is talking about how much i love gravity rush. i get it. but the fact that you literally can't engage with the slightest bit of negativity with a piece of media is so painfully transparent in its privilege. and the thing that really gets me is the lack of intersectionality of it all. the FFXIV fandom loves, LOVES to gas up how gay it is. and that's great! but you should also fucking KNOW better. the reason you don't is because you're free and clear to headcanon yourself making out with whatever pale-ass character in that game you want and feel validated. i don't get to headcanon away the racist garbage in FFXIV, LMFAO. it's always going to be there. you're so desperately worried that your parade is going to get rained on because you've invested your life into an MMO from a fucking corporation that you'd rather "block the haters" (read: minorities) than ask a single fucking self-reflecting question and it's embarrassing and the worst part is that it works! i've lost friends over this stupid fucking MMO. i've so often felt like i'm not allowed to say anything and risk upsetting the fanbase. but i don't fucking care anymore. your comfort is not more important to me than combating racism, and i'm not fucking sorry about it.