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Post by CinderpeltFan on Feb 26, 2019 10:15:02 GMT -5
So I have spent some time in most the major Warriors fandom communities. Here is what I have found:
Amino: very friendly and mostly art focused. Sometimes it's so friendly it gets boring. Still, art is nice. WCRPForums: can be pretty toxic, but I think that's why I love it. Deffo my fave site. Reddit: Quite nice, lovely art with the odd sarcastic/rude comment. Tumblr: It's Tumblr but with cats. Mostly the same as the rest of Tumblr, and that's not a good thing.
What do you guys think of the various communities, and what ones have I missed?
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Post by Fireleap on Feb 26, 2019 16:00:50 GMT -5
Amino: Haven’t spent anytime on this one, so idk. DeviantArt: Haven’t spent time on this one either, so idk. Reddit: See above. Tumblr: One of the better communities on the site. Forums: Toxic and constant arguing. Some threads can be pleasant though. BlogClan: Pretty harmless.
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Post by scint on Feb 26, 2019 16:29:22 GMT -5
Amino: Idk DeviantArt: Dunno but looks can be deceiving. Reddit: Idk. Tumblr: Ehh...no. Please no. Forums: Toxic and constant arguing; few pleasant threads on WG. I've found it best to stick to the roleplays, fanfiction, and OTD here if you don't want as much petty drama breaking out while on here. YouTube: Eurgh...it's downright horrible if you say the wrong things. (Basically to all Mapleshade haters and Ivypool haters. Your funeral.) FFN: Eh. Neutral on it. BlogClan: Literally the best out of all of these. Harmless for the most part, mainly when a nasty comment manages to get through but the mods take care of it really well. Plus I've hardly ever seen it happen.
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Post by Mistymoon on Feb 26, 2019 18:45:22 GMT -5
Amino: Idk DeviantArt: Dunno but looks can be deceiving. Reddit: Idk. Tumblr: Ehh...no. Please no. Forums: Toxic and constant arguing; few pleasant threads on WG. I've found it best to stick to the roleplays, fanfiction, and OTD here if you don't want as much petty drama breaking out while on here. YouTube: Eurgh...it's downright horrible if you say the wrong things. (Basically to all Mapleshade haters and Ivypool haters. Your funeral.) FFN: Eh. Neutral on it. BlogClan: Literally the best out of all of these. Harmless for the most part, mainly when a nasty comment manages to get through but the mods take care of it really well. Plus I've hardly ever seen it happen. What is FNN? I know I’m an idiot
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Post by Mistymoon on Feb 26, 2019 18:48:59 GMT -5
Amino: Pretty good. One of my favorite communities DA: idk I don’t have an account but I want one Tumblr: idk I on,y look at one blog on there and I don’t have an account Fourms: Okay. I haven’t experienced the toxic side yet YouTube: Another one of my faves Reddit: idk BlogClan: Probably the best of the best
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Post by scint on Feb 26, 2019 19:10:19 GMT -5
Amino: Idk DeviantArt: Dunno but looks can be deceiving. Reddit: Idk. Tumblr: Ehh...no. Please no. Forums: Toxic and constant arguing; few pleasant threads on WG. I've found it best to stick to the roleplays, fanfiction, and OTD here if you don't want as much petty drama breaking out while on here. YouTube: Eurgh...it's downright horrible if you say the wrong things. (Basically to all Mapleshade haters and Ivypool haters. Your funeral.) FFN: Eh. Neutral on it. BlogClan: Literally the best out of all of these. Harmless for the most part, mainly when a nasty comment manages to get through but the mods take care of it really well. Plus I've hardly ever seen it happen. What is FNN? I know I’m an idiot Fanfiction.net, although it doesn't really count as a community. Although there are Warriors forums, and I do know that quite a few allow chats about Warriors on them in the Warriors section. Most are only for roleplay, though. (And a lot of them are dead)
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Post by Seven on Feb 26, 2019 20:45:13 GMT -5
amino: went there couple of times, seemed pretty positive tumblr: the art and artists are nice until you disagree with them deviantart: unsure forums: it's not the worst ? youtube: you don't ship moth x leaf? shame on you blogclan: no opinion
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Post by Brindlefern on Feb 26, 2019 20:56:17 GMT -5
Amino: Haven't stayed around long enough to really form an opinion tbh. I have yet to. Tumblr: The worst out of them. Has good art there but the community there is toxic as all hell. The very moment you disagree with them or give an unpopular opinion you get hounded and death threatened. I dealt with a few anons back then giving me death threats when I said how much I hated IvyBlossom. >.<''' Not only that but there are big-name WC artists there I cannot stand. Deviantart: Haven't interacted with the community there to form an opinion. I left the side 4-5 years ago, long before I even really joined the fandom. I just go there to fave as much FireSand ship art I can find now. WCRPForums: Ehhh... iffy. I'm getting annoyed by how it's just feeling more and more like an echo chamber nowadays though. I don't like debates and all myself, but I feel like I have to walk on eggshells when I wanna simply just disagree with someone and not get my hand bitten and offend them for doing so. It's not fun, and it's making me spend less hours a day here. ://// The only thing keeping me here is the one (slow) RP I'm in, and my art thread which I wanna have control and edit that when needed. It's sad because this is the one place alongside Blogclan where I'm actually active in the community and isn't be afraid to get anonymously harassed, but I feel like I can't just disagree with anyone either or else they'll have a problem with it, which is just similar to Tumblr in that regard.... Youtube: I love the animations and AMVs/PMVs and all, and there's even some that got me introduced to the fandom/series, but can't STAND the rumor spreading that goes on in the community there, they make me wanna rip my hair out. Blogclan: The only WC related site that I don't really feel any negative way to. Aside from it being hard to navigate, I like going there. It's harmless for the most part, the community is actually friendly, I like seeing Kate pop up from time to time and interact with the fans. It's pretty much the one WC-focused site that's the best out of all of them tbh. I have yet to post my art there but I'm too shy rn.
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Post by Sundance on Feb 26, 2019 21:35:11 GMT -5
Blogclan: The only WC related site that I don't really feel any negative way to. Aside from it being hard to navigate, I like going there. It's harmless for the most part, the community is actually friendly, I like seeing Kate pop up from time to time and interact with the fans. It's pretty much the one WC-focused site that's the best out of all of them tbh. I have yet to post my art there but I'm too shy rn. Take all the time you need of course but also know your art is SO GOOD and blogclanners would LLLLOOVVEEEE to see it in all its glory :-) you'll blow them away!!! :-P
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Post by lapispaw on Feb 26, 2019 22:45:02 GMT -5
WCRP: -drinks a cup of water- decent BlogClan: -drinks a cup of rainbow shake- holy wow!!! YouTube: -drinks a cup of get out - what] (some videos can be great tho) Haven't really seen the communities in Reddit, Amino, Tumblr, and DA...
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Post by *Ottersplash* on Feb 26, 2019 22:54:04 GMT -5
I don't think WCForums is that bad, other than people occasionally getting snippy with each other I would say Tumblr will always be the worst, considering the site in its entirety doesn't like anyone disagreeing with a single set of views so it extends to the fandoms
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Post by Rio on Feb 27, 2019 5:06:31 GMT -5
I honestly don't think the tumblr community is that bad. I've only ever had people be nice about my artwork but who knows, maybe I'm just only experiencing the good side of it lol.
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Thinks too much about Warriors
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Post by TigerLily on Feb 27, 2019 7:00:33 GMT -5
I honestly don't think the tumblr community is that bad. I've only ever had people be nice about my artwork but who knows, maybe I'm just only experiencing the good side of it lol. ^^^ This! The Tumblr community isn't bad, I actually really enjoyed my time there. However, I'm taking a break because some crazy accused me of being transphobic with no grounds, but that's just something that happens sometimes on that site (like any other site with petty drama or toxic people or the like). The people are generally really nice and I talked to some people from Tumblr on a Discord server when I'm usually a huge loner on sites that are so big like that.
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Post by Kibui on Feb 27, 2019 7:48:51 GMT -5
Tumblr: Not on that site, so I'm just gonna repeat my general opinion of it: I'm sorry for the people there that just want to post art/stuff they like but get in contact with its toxic side
dA: I only use it to post art so I honestly don't know what that community is like. If I had to guess I suppose it depends on what groups you're (and in which you do more than just post art/literature)
Amino: Again, I only use it for posting art, quizzes and polls. Just from browsing some posts my general view of that place is that at least on the surface it seems fine but does have a lot of spam-y, irrelevant, sometimes even art theft posts
WCRPForums: Can be quite toxic and negative but at the same time I also appreciate the different topics people come up with to talk about because they don't solely focus around favourite and least favourite aspects. I don't like how snippy some people can get (whether intentional or not) though, and I also don't like it when people post something and expect nobody to respond to what they said. The literal decription of this sub board is to discuss the books, if you post something here then expect people to resond to it and talk about what you said. That also doesn't mean others have to be snarky about it, obviously, but if you go to a discussion board and don't want to argue a) don't bother posting or b ) just ignore responses sorry for that tangent there
Reddit: Never visited any Warriors related boards. No idea what they're like
German Warriors Wiki: Is basically the place I grew up with and helped grow. It's where I've found my closest friends. I love being there, although the discussions are usually pretty shallow since there rarely are posts other than "what's you (least) favourite book/character/etc?"
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Post by vectoring34 on Feb 27, 2019 10:22:37 GMT -5
Tumblr is a total mess and god forbid you say anything about a fan favorite ship or character there. Worse still if you dare to defend someone deemed problematic, because you will get absolutely trucked on. The memes are good though.
WCRP is generally pretty good and I liked it a lot more before the influx of threads that just had someone digging in their heels and saying "IT'S JUST MY OPINION!!!" when someone dared to comment on a thread that they'd made with anything less than total support. Minor rant aside it's still the best for anything approaching intelligent conversation about Warriors and hopefully with the new book we'll get some more proper back and forth threads.
Youtube has amazing MAPs and PMVs but whenever it strays from that art it's inevitably pretty poor. The Youtube comments are incredibly circlejerky and holy crap is Mapleshade shilled there. Also one of the more premier animators at the moment I take issue with for various reasons and I think is kind of actively making the community worse by spitting out content incredibly fast that's good enough to be passable and becoming something of an idol figure. You probably already know who I'm talking about just with that so I won't be dragging it out any further.
The reddit is dead.
Deviantart generally has pretty good art but that's about all I know.
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Post by Redstorm on Feb 28, 2019 0:29:53 GMT -5
WCRP is intellectual and argumentative. YouTube is the artist and mass appeal (videos with million of views). Also good with collabs. BlogClan is the friendly community based site. I find Amino for the younger crowd.
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Post by embertuft on Feb 28, 2019 11:35:02 GMT -5
Reddit I’m not to sure on tbh Youtube community I quite like, although I agree with someone above that Moth x Leaf is emphasised a bit. The animations are lovely but if you disagree with someone it’s like a world wars happened. Wcrp - Genuinely lovely people on the community, although debating is quite a problem. Fanfiction - Not part of it but have seen some of it. It seems okay I guess. Tumblr is the worst. Everyone overreacts and there’s so much arguing between everyone OVER FICTIONAL CATS. Everyone’s art is very good thoug, although some people can be quite mean. BlogClan - a decent website and barely has any arguments. People seem nice and friendly. Amino I haven’t seen much of but it’s okay? Based on the younger audiences of warriors (like myself) and there’s barely arguments . Although I prefer the forums to the amino- for reasons I can’t put into words. That just seems like a bunch of stuff muddled together.
Although I don’t like the designs for youtube maps and all follow the same thing. Some MAPS should have different designs of the cats, not just the designs that everyone uses! Pet peeve
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Post by kells on Mar 3, 2019 18:05:25 GMT -5
As someone who's spent over two years on Amino, I can assure you it's a really really terrible community. You just can't see any of the dirt there because everyone keeps it under wraps. It's probably one of the most drama-filled soap operas around, believe me. But flaws aside, it's a nice place to build an audience and dish out cash though.
I never involved myself with tumblr or lurked there very long.
DeviantART is fine, I've spent a good while there when I was younger but I was pushed away by the cringiness despite being cringy myself.
I haven't seen much of Reddit, I just go there for the PDFs :v
As for here, I've only lurked around every once in a few years since I've joined the fanbase, I haven't thought to join until a few months back. It's nice here, I've seen one or two fights and heard tons of drama that blew up here but from my short time involving myself its not that bad. Its actually refreshing to come here debate every once in a while.
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But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.
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Post by dnacat on Mar 3, 2019 19:21:41 GMT -5
Reddit seems fine. Haven't been on there much, but seems like just a bunch of people who want to talk about cats.
FFN. God, what to say about FFN. Most of the people on there are nice, but I think it's unfair to judge them considering that's basically where kids start off in the warriors community (trust me, it's very clear by some of the fanfictions and forums that a lot of the members were kids. Myself included, when I was on there).
Tumblr is okay if you can avoid the wrong blogs. Most of the posts on there are just jokes and/or fantastic artwork, but there's the occasional rampant homophobia/transphobia accuser that you've gotta avoid. I follow a few blogs on there, mainly ones who just muck about and laugh at the idiots of the community.
WCRP has seemed generally okay so far. I might have missed most of the drama from the earlier days, but generally everyone seems friendly, even in Warriors general. Sure, there's the heated debate every now and again but, hey, that's what you get with a bunch of people passionate about fighting, morally grey cats.
Amino. Hoo boy. Probably the worst. Maybe it's better now, but when I was on there, there was a BUNCH of shit going on. Not to mention the whole "umm, saying homophobia is bad/making LGBT only groups is discrimination uwu," thing they had going. Plus, the mods were a state. Like, all of them. One of them made an entire Discord server just to have a go at another mod. Again, it could have improved, but I can't go back on there without the remembering the absolute state it was during the peak. ((Plus art theft is rampant.))
BlogClan? Nothing to say except: very wholesome. Seems like a good time.
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