Much as I disdain Discord, I will admit that the number one most perfect use case for it is enabling a fan forum for $thing that's completely invisible, unsearchable, unindexable and isolated from whoever's responsible for making $thing
Which is very important and useful because if a creator looks at their own fan forum they might be tempted to do the stuff that the most vociferous and obsessive 1% of their fanbase is interested in, which is very rarely what the other 99% cares about
Conventional thing-having-fans-type-business wisdom is to Engage With The Fans but this is wrong and encourages obsession and parasocial relationships, to ensure the longevity of your business and your own mental health you should instead identify your biggest fans and ask them hey have you ever played Undertale, you should try it, it's brilliant
There's this thing the internet does where it takes people who like a thing in a normal way and Processes them into Fans and then into Scary Fans, and then with the internet being the way it is, people who post more are more visible y'know, it's entirely invisible that 99.999% of fans are normal about it
Like, the people who roam the forum dedicated to the Thing are already the 1% who are Most Into The Thing, which is why creators should never look at their own forums
Much as I disdain Discord, I will admit that the number one most perfect use case for it is enabling a fan forum for $thing that's completely invisible, unsearchable, unindexable and isolated from whoever's responsible for making $thing
Which is very important and useful because if a creator looks at their own fan forum they might be tempted to do the stuff that the most vociferous and obsessive 1% of their fanbase is interested in, which is very rarely what the other 99% cares about
There's a bit in this... IDK if it's even in this particular blogpost but it's somewhere in the General Rabbithole, where this person talks about when the forums shut down and Andrew did this big sigh of relief because if ppl were obsessing over the minutia of offhand throwaway lines he wrote years and years ago then at least they weren't doing it somewhere he was expected to pay attention to and I'm like "Yyyyyuppppppp"
There's this thing the internet does where it takes people who like a thing in a normal way and Processes them into Fans and then into Scary Fans, and then with the internet being the way it is, people who post more are more visible y'know, it's entirely invisible that 99.999% of fans are normal about it
Like, the people who roam the forum dedicated to the Thing are already the 1% who are Most Into The Thing, which is why creators should never look at their own forums
I am famous to the point where someone I'm chatting with IRL has said "Holy shit, that was YOU?!" like three or four times in my whole lifetime and that's MORE THAN ENOUGH TYVM
There's a bit in this... IDK if it's even in this particular blogpost but it's somewhere in the General Rabbithole, where this person talks about when the forums shut down and Andrew did this big sigh of relief because if ppl were obsessing over the minutia of offhand throwaway lines he wrote years and years ago then at least they weren't doing it somewhere he was expected to pay attention to and I'm like "Yyyyyuppppppp"
Fell down a Homestuck rabbithole last night courtesy of https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/08/08/uhc-end/ and man oh man am I glad I'm not famous
I am famous to the point where someone I'm chatting with IRL has said "Holy shit, that was YOU?!" like three or four times in my whole lifetime and that's MORE THAN ENOUGH TYVM
Fell down a Homestuck rabbithole last night courtesy of https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/08/08/uhc-end/ and man oh man am I glad I'm not famous
I got a levelling rake from the same company and it says it's a machine of type pet bed, make sure the drain is clear at all times and never let children play around the shampooer so those of you trying to make sense of this manual's Bones Comment are just looking for shapes in clouds
"Every warning is because of an Incident" y'all are not thinking diabolical enough, some warnings are meant to PROVOKE the Incident
If I run a tyre company and put on a big tractor tyre "Do not insert into rectum" then it's because I want someone to go "Oh YEAH? Screw you buddy, nobody tells ME what to do"
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🦝 it's not ALL bones!
I got a levelling rake from the same company and it says it's a machine of type pet bed, make sure the drain is clear at all times and never let children play around the shampooer so those of you trying to make sense of this manual's Bones Comment are just looking for shapes in clouds
🐰 Oof this is heavy, what'd you fill it up with
🦝 nervous giggle DEFINITELY not bones haha!
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🦝 ...
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🦝 it's not ALL bones!
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Don't fill it up with bones
🐹 No bones
🦝 ...just,
🐹 NO
🦝 ...one bone?
🐹 Two at ABSOLUTE max
🐰 Oof this is heavy, what'd you fill it up with
🦝 nervous giggle DEFINITELY not bones haha!
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