HamboneFakenamington

I occasionally pop back on to see if there's any news about some of my favorite subs migrating to the fediverse that haven't yet, and I've noticed that nearly all of my home page has massive posts in the vein of "comment your favorite ___ and then tomorrow we do our favorite ___!" Or like the "eliminate one ___ every day until we get to the favorite!"

One of my video game subs is doing it for least favorite characters, a TV show sub is doing favorite character quotes, a genre one doing favorite movies and then says it will move on to favorite books, etc.

They all seem to have started around the same day, and they all have options that are dozens long.

I've seen things like this pop up occasionally before but it's so many of them all at once across vastly different subs I follow that have no connections to each other.

My corporate-conspiracy train of thought immediately started to wonder if admins are enticing users/actually posting themselves or w/e to create these kinds of threads that tend to draw lots of user engagement to try and get some numbers looking better. People tend to get really jazzed about these kinds of topics so these posts rn all have hundreds/thousands of comments and upvotes and such in subs that normally don't see that much individual engagement on posts, and they're all tailored to keep up for long periods of time with above-average (in my experience at least) numbers of options to work through to get to the "one." And ofc people who are interested in them are going to keep coming back to check out what's winning and vote on the next round, etc.

Wondering if anyone else has noticed anything like this or if it sounds as fishy to anyone else, or if perhaps it really is just all one big coincidence and I'm just being weird.

I've never fought for anything in my entire life, I'm fighting for this hat.

I don't expect killers to let all survivors go, or meme around, or farm, but can we all at least just play the goddamn game?

There is no reason at all to camp and tunnel out two survivors at 4 gens then slug the last two in general, but when there's five tiramisus? You're not even getting many points for brutality or chasing if you have no gens to kick and players are just bleeding out on the ground ffs. If you just played competitively but normally you could likely still get a 4K, and/or get more points than playing the asshole way.

It is a game, yes, and that means you don't owe the other side anything. Play the game, play to win.

But at the same time, it is a game. It doesn't have to be THAT serious that it warrants you sweating so much so early.

And the people who do it because the fun of the game for them comes not from the challenge or objectives of the game but instead comes from doing whatever you can to be a dick to other people? I say this sincerely, that is really sad. You know most people don't derive their main source of pleasure from hurting/harassing/annoying other people, right? Like, you know that is not a thing that people who are okay do?

And survivors also don't need to go out of their way to be as rude as fucking possible, in and outside of events. Like, chill out for a second. Lots of killers are choosing to be casual in the early days of the event, you're not necessarily actually outplaying them, and even if you were, your "achievement" doesn't warrant endless teabagging, literally hundreds/thousands of other people are escaping this game every single day lmao, you're not a superstar.

Just play the game. If you want to be chill about it and have fun celebrating the event then you do you, but it's obviously okay not to. But can we at least just all just play the game we're celebrating the anniversary of as it was intended to be played?