I’m going to keep this relatively short (well, short for me) since I don’t care about wasting a lot of my life when it comes to gaming drama. But some other videos crept into my recommendations, and I ended up watching it (and just face palmed).
Some folks have never grown out of the “high school” clique/drama mentality unfortunately. That is what happens when some of these younger content creators became huge by being part of the “first mover” crowd when the game launched during COVID. The only two Genshin related content creators I followed that also played the game while streaming, were Mtashed and dish (I eventually unfollowed both since I just didn’t want to see any Genshin content period after a certain point; it had nothing to do with either of them). But back then, there were also other large Genshin content creators (who streamed the game) that I didn’t care for. I don’t have to name them because the two who I followed, should make it obvious of just how many did not resonate with me. Oh, and regarding Tectone, his style isn’t what I enjoy (part of this is also the whole internet personna which many have trouble filtering out), but he often times calls things out for what it is (often times stirring the hornets’ nest) because he doesn’t have a contract with miHoYo (effectively black balled) where he doesn’t have to walk that fine line like those content creators who are partnered/contracted with Hoyoverse. But like everything else, I’m also not the “I agree with everything” sort of viewer when it comes to these content creators (and where I feel that Tectone does need to tone it down/put a self-filter on it because there are way too many people who take things literally/believe everything they see/hear from those they follow like an internet groupie).
Now I left those content creators who focus on guides out of this (for the above) because I don’t tend to follow these folks (since as I explained before, I prefer the old-school approach with trying to discover stuff on my own). But this new drama included a fairly prominent guide maker (one who says he has social anxiety). Out of curiosity, I decided to watch some of his content (logged out via Incognito mode), and I would not have ever guessed he was an introvert or suffered from social anxiety. But I understand where he is coming from. Then I considered what he wrote in his twit-long posting (regarding the other Genshin content creator), and I also understand how Asian’s can be reserved/cautious (I fall into that category myself). I also grok how some have this over-the-top cliquish mentality when it comes to social circles (something I personally despised/never subscribed to during high school) where drama comes with that territory. This is why I despise gaming drama because I play games to get away from that stuff (which is why I prefer being socially distanced in-game and playing the way I want to play when I want to play it). But I digress…
Back in the day, many of these folks had to learn how to act as an adult post-high school because there was no internet with social media amplifying communities that could lavish a financially freeing income on those who were fortunate/lucky enough to get onto the higher rungs of that ladder early on like over the past decade. So there are some who haven’t actually experienced the hard knocks of real life (which teaches those important life lessons of how to act like an adult when dealing with others in real life situations). Without naming the actual names, let’s just say parts of this is misunderstanding from the lack of communication while other parts is also ego/narcissism and manipulative behavior. If you go to an IRL social gathering and have photos/videos being taken at that party, if you don’t want that photo/videos to be made public, you need to make that clear (I believe that part of this involved the VTuber who was there).
Eg. In Japan, there are many YouTube content creators who choose not to reveal their face. So when they do collaborations, they also make it explicitly clear if their privacy can be respected. Given how image rights and privacy are sort of ingrained in most parts of the social cultural structure in Japan, most will tend to respect that simple request. In the west though, it’s not the same (you really do need to make it clear and may get some weird looks/reaction in the process) so it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary to just post such a photo (which is probably what happened, where the other content creator felt that it was a violation of trust).
In the end, I see one person (who has social anxiety) trying to reach out to find out what it is they actually did wrong, while the other party has chosen to avoid/block that individual (while writing twit-long’s about said person). We’re not talking little kids here; we’re talking fairly large content creators who are grown adults having a lot of this spill out into the public domain, where you’d think you’d want to at least try to have an adult conversation (versus continually posting long tweets). It’s like the time I had to learn from others about the lies being told about why I was removed as one of the guild leaders in a game versus communicating it directly with me like a mature adult.
Let’s just say I believe the guide maker (who gave me positive vibes just watching some of his guides) versus the other guy who previously gave me “meh” vibes when he streamed Genshin (during the period when this whole content creator space for the game was in its early stages). As I stated back in 2021 (during the first rewards drama), this Genshin Impact/miHoYo/Hoyoverse community needs to grow the hell up (it’s why I’m constantly trying to keep my recommendations feed sanitized from anything related to miHoYo/Hoyoverse) but find the stuff unfortunately still popping up.
I’m just glad I am not an actual content creator (I’m just a random who freely blogs with no monetization intentions) since seriously, why would anyone want to be part of this cycle of negative drama as part of their livelihood. It’s why I view the entire gaming industry and its various ecosystems the way I do to the point where I am seriously looking at moving on from it as the hobby that I dedicate my free time to (and that is being helped by discovering and finding more fun/positivity in the IRL streaming community).
