discussion Is ATRL low-key toxic?

[Disconnect]

I mean I don't want to be shady or anything but I feel like ATRL has been like toxic in a way, since everything we do here is argue and throw hate haha.

 

I don't think there's anything wrong with arguing a little but I need some users take it too far.

 

THOUGHTS?

[Gorjesspazze9]

Welcome to the internet 

[Click Clack]

yes, disconnect. 

[#Beautiful]

lowkey?

[Prism]

It’s toxic for anyone who isn’t a Swiftie, let’s just say that. 

[#Beautiful]

you should've seen the old atrl, at least it was interesting back then. now all you get is taylor swift threads arguing about nothing

[JohnWayneHolland]

This place is Chernobyl 

[zasderfght]

I've gotten used to it. I think someone people are genuinely trolling, and that can get lost in translation. Some people are (I assume) high schoolers and people in their early 20s. When you haven't had life experience, it's a lot easier to judge other people's experiences, require external factors for self-validation (like looking, sound, or acting a certain way). Some users on here don't go to therapy or seek mental health treatment, so a lot dating/relationship threads are about the 10th time someone hooked up and caught feelings... for the 10th time, or they have internalized homophobia, so they can't handle a serious relationship. 

 

Then there's some people that live vicariously through the artists they like, which is weird. If Beyonce won a Grammy, she won it. Not you. Yes, you helped her contribute to having the notoriety/funds/popularity to craft a project like that, but to these celebrities, we are literally nobodies. 

 

This is a fun forum to discuss pop culture/music with when it's culturally-sensitive/appropriate, but then again, this isn't a forum devoted strictly to scholars or a forum to talk about music in a fun but studied/educated/measured way. This is a pop forum with a bunch of unhinged gays looking to get views on their clickbait thread or a forum for people to espouse their micro-aggressions, homophobic, or sexist views on things because they think it's edgy to constantly go against the grain, and if you don't go against the grain, you're deemed as "sheeple" or stupid.

Edited April 26, 2023 by zasderfght

[LustSpell]

Extremely. Imagine if Stand Your Ground was still here  Worst place now is probably the K-Pop base. A cesspool. This place got ruined when stan twitter popularity blew up and people started moving from there to here and various subreddits

Edited April 26, 2023 by LustSpell

[Jotham]

More like high-key

[youmustbeupgraded]

absolutely - fat shaming, flop shaming, age shaming 

 

but I love it

 

I remember it in like 2013-2014 it used to be a lot worse

Edited April 26, 2023 by youmustbeupgraded

[brenda-walsh]

it used to be way worse during SYG days and when i would stalk OldTRL

[hallucinate]

lowkey?

[The_Bling]

[Illuminati]

Highkey

[PrettyHurts]

No it’s a positive and uplifting community where differences are settled respectfully

[Psycho]

That comes with the territory

[schnetzka]

...lowkey? Definitely not the word I would use.

[Alaska.]

It used to be a lot worse. I remember when that Nicole user was comparing Britney's freedom to a chimp and dozens of people were quoting the post and laughing at it

[Shelter]

High key. 

[Antisocialites]

take a look at the k-pop thread and see for yourself

 

[PoisonedIvy]

High key lol. But just do your part to be a civil person and you’ll find peace. And if things get super toxic it’s pretty easy to just log off and stay away

[Big Bad Wolf]

Yes. A bunch of gays arguing about chart facts all say long. Contributing to misogyny because we all know statistically female artists “age out” of commercial appeal/success.

[Azulito]

There’s nothing lowkey about it  

[Smarticle]

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