I Can't Do This Anymore.

I’m not a Kuro Shill or a Hoyo Shill. I’m a Juice shill. ☺️ Wuthering Waves is fun, Zenless Zone Zero is fun, NTE LOOKS FUN, Maybe Azur Promelia changes my life. I just wanna yap and play games. :)

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[hexjuice]

Just would like to add a note and emphasize that I UNDERSTAND THE WAYS IN WHICH I AM CULPABLE AND HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE PROBLEMS I TALK ABOUT IN THIS VIDEO! I acknowledge these things, and I am still working through how I want to proceed with covering topics in the future. I am also starting to understand more how the thumbnails I make contribute unnecessarily to issues, and will be adjusting accordingly.

I am still learning a lot about content creation. I only started picking up momentum in February, and there are a lot of things that maybe seem obvious to others that don't feel as obvious to me. IN MY MIND, the thumbnail is sensational but the content within isn't so bad, so I felt that others understood my POV. HOWEVER, I'm recognizing more and more how the thumbnails do attract a particular audience regardless of what I actually say in the video.

Does this probably sound obvious and stupid to not understand? Probably, but I was ignorant to the impact of this in a lot of ways. I'll work on it. I want to have a positive impact on the community, and if tweaking thumbnails could help do that, that's an EASY fix. But yeah. I'm not asking for sympathy or pity, just talking about my thoughts and acknowledging where I want to change. Thanks to those that understand that.

[nowdanny]

CCs being shocked about the state of the community wondering why the drama is abysmal, forgetting how they are the cause or main distributors of said drama is insane to me.

[peckneck]

Like seriously, CCs add fuel to the fire all the time to farm views only to then do a complete 180 and act all virtuous once the farming is done all while waiting for the next drama to appear so they can do it over and over and over again it's absolutely hilarious. At least we now start to understand why such blatant tribalism exist. Because directly or indirectly, CCs encourage it.

[Bakemer]

One thing i would like to point out is that, half of the discourse on these games is pushed by the CC's themselves.
They are like, "why is there so much drama" while refusing to look the titles of their own videos.
Im not saying that its you, or that you do it more than others, just making a point i think has some merit.

[blkwng]

Content creators farming drama: "this is the genshin killer, wuwa worse than genshin, zzz better than wuwa, zzz not as good as genshin"
Also content creators when the community is toxic: surprised Pikachu face.

[Atmo-sp]

When almost every thumbnail or title are provocative and attacking one game or another, what CCs are expecting to attract and what they expect to see on their comment section ? Especialy when its close to a community already known as toxic.

The gacha community was always like that, less openly public before genshin but still. Everyone knew what was going to happen with Wuwa and ZZZ release.

And i can already tell you what will happens when NTE comes out. People will attack the game especialy focusing to point out the studio and TOF release, there will be optimization problem for 25+% of the players even if its not true, people will comment about "design", "easy combat", "coomer game", "stiff animation", "futur powercreep" etc.. Until they find a specific point that can't be argued and they will repeat it over and over again, even if the game end up being the best gacha ever.

And CCs will milk the hell out of this confrontation again.

In fact, every game have theyr trigger sentence.
You want to tease a ZZZ fan : "Tvs, easy game, lolis"
You want to tease a Wuwa fan : "Optimization, EN Va, translation (tbh its just trigger ex genshin players, PGR players make fun of it for years anyway)"
You want to tease a Genshin fan : "3, mint"
For HSR i'm not so sure because i don't look too much about it but probably anything related to meta and "powercreep"

And who pushed this button every possible time ? CCs

[dedfish]

A good cc is one that doesn’t stir drama and actually provides value to the players gaming experience.

[sleepen]

I mean, part of the reason we're in this situation is because content creators fan the flames, especially when it comes down to Hoyo games. Look at all the coverage by content creators before ZZZ came out and during its release.

Negative people are always the loudest, and that only gets amplified when content creators hype them up.

[agr_aldt]

I do love how people can solve all their problems by liking multiple games but just choose not to, like I’m juggling both ZZZ and WuWa and both games are super fun 💀

[louemrick]

i used to spend time everyday looking at 10-12 cc's newest posts for years. I recently noticed I stopped at around same time the atsu/brax crap started. Almost all CC's, even the ones who PRIDED themselves on not getting into drama, started running nothing but drama posts. I like Hex, but had she never made a single post about her drama I never wouldve even known she had drama. So you all keep bringing drama to our attention. Happy to see her edited comment that she sees how she has been part of the problem. Just make content you enjoy, dont worry about other cc's. We started wastching you for YOU not the drama.

[kinathefox]

Ill be honest outside of the cc's SAYING that there's conflict in the gacha community i almost never see any, the only real one currently was the natlan stuff, outside of that most people arent complaining that much, the CCs just amplify something that isnt really there outside their circle. Also the likes the dislike ratio on alot of videos arent even that bad its like 8-10% dislikes at best which is barely anything

[Detton]

In chasing the YouTube algorithm, content creators make increasingly dramatized thumbnails, titles, and videos: "NUCULEAR DRAMA" this, "I CAN'T BELIEVE X DID/SAID" that. Now, the videos inside and under these titles may be more nuanced or balanced, but you're going to draw in people with that. Not just yourself, honestly every CC that I follow that covers Hoyo / Kuro titles does the same thing, because to most creators, this is a specific business decision to get as many viewers and ad revenue as possible. If your focus on your channel is that, it's a great strategy, but if your goal is community-building... well, you've seen the results.

It's targeting a specific demographic (the kinds of people who complain about there being too much drama in a community but click on every drama video without realizing that that's why YouTube is showing them all the drama videos.) And, well, it's working, or as I end up saying in my own job to customers, "Functioning as designed."

[leorodri]

you do have far more involvement on this than you may be willing to accept, i have never heard of you until your videos started popping up everywhere just because i happen to look at wuwa on youtube. your stuff was either, laughing at genshin, reacting to wuwa content and hyping it up and incentivizing the tribalism. it isn't a matter of just the thumbnails.

[Mikaeveli-z]

People, including content creators, just don't like to hear that the game they liked is publicly disliked etc. CCs also have to realize that they cant farm content and drama and not expect to attract certain audiences. This is an important aspect CCs often forget.
Added to that, Imagine going to a bar and being surprised to see alcoholics and drunk people. Gacha is the same. These games and games of chance in general are created to prey on specific types of people. Usually weak minded people who lack self control.
Not to mention gacha games have a lot of FOMO, so the psychological impact is interesting to say the least. So Imagine forming a community with all these people.

What we are noticing right now, is multiple large gacha communities, when before Hoyo was the only large one. keep in mind however, that these people only make up a very small number of the player base. At the end of the day, play what makes you happy, the opinions of others does not matter at all.

EDIT: I feel the same with HSR right now as well. Also id like to see your reaction to Neverness to Everness, new game by Hotta.

[Mishakur]

"This changes everything!", "This is the best thing ever!", "This game is shit!", "They totally dropped the ball on this, There is no recovery!", "Anyone that likes this is a child!", "This is Mickey Mouse bullshit!", the list goe son and on. content creators and people on social media are like sith, they only talk in absolutes. It sells better, it clicks better, but doing things that way also forms the audiences, makes them adopt such absolutistic stances and act on them between each other.
And once audiences and communities reach er certain size it multiplies itself.
The Gacha space mad eitself this way, through multiple avenues. And it's not the frist space that did this. Back in the days it was WoW vs any other MMO, it is XBox vs. Playstation, it is PC Master Race vs. Console Kids, it's everything.
The current internet population has lost he ability to look at nuances and to act and speak without condemning something or praising something into high heavens
To recover from that not only requires content creators to move out of the habit to sensationalize everything, to not focus on the clickability of drama, it also requires the audiences to want to change, to not be a Sith anymore.

[MITKOYATO]

The ccs created the community and makes the community look wierder. I was in a ww discord and everyone was normal someone played zzz in the vc and everyone was hyped when he was pulling. It's only the ccs that make the community look wierd they create unescesnary drama that makes the other communitys fight.

[TheRevivedKishin]

I love how CC's have a come to jesus moment regarding a problem in a community that they have had a heavy hand in fanning only after they have felt the negative repercussions. It's great that you acknowledge it in your video, but in the grand scheme it doesn't mean a damn thing unless you actually act on it, and even still it won't revert the damage already done. As long as you're doing this job, people will forever be your Judge, Jury, and executioners so I hope the community continue to hold you to it.

I don't hate you, but " I didn't know " Is never acceptable, and often times (Not with you probably) It's not " I didn't know " but " I didn't care to know OR just didn't care ". I say this to everyone including my family and it's always applicable.

[Kinger_of_the_circus]

*“The community”*
I dread those words every time I hear them
This is why I keep to myself

[Apinanoob]

Content creators shocked that the toxicity has gotten bad when they farmed that drama like a dead horse that had already been beaten twice. Epitome of r/leopardsatemyface material. Genuine question to HexJuice: Am I suppose to feel bad or sympathy for you? I'm not claiming that you are a bad person, or evil, or that you were one of the main instigators of this whole toxicity, but you partook your fair share in it.

[PheoAo]

I remember some crazy drama that happened a couple years back and it was just dragging me down.
One day I decided to take a break and HOLY!! Taking a break on the internet was just so peaceful and relaxing, it made a huge difference that now I barely interact with communities and just do my own thing for the fun of it.