Was into Smash Bros up until the announcement of Ultimate (i.e. when i was a teen) and holy fuck, how has nobody mentioned them?

A good chunk of the community's made up of middle-aged psychos who don't even like the games, they just think it'll fix the current state of their most-wanted's series. Every post I see from them is either a wishlist, complaining that said wishlist didn't come to fruition, or getting into slapfights with others because someone's wishlist didn't match theirs.

the gaming community as a whole

No no no no, they like one of the games. Just Melee because they grew up with it.

How the hell has nobody mentioned Rainbow Six Siege yet? Unless I’m blind?

Out of a lot of competitive multiplayer game communities, that one has to be one of the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s full of toxic masculine “sigma male” teenage boys going absolutely feral with slurs to anyone who’s even remotely bad at the game.

Just take one look at the reviews for the game on Xbox, they are fowl.

This screenshot I took actually has more reviews, but I cropped them out because they’re quite bad, this one was the tamest.

My brother has gotten a fair amount of private messages from people having a go at him for being bad at the game lol.

Absolutely sweaty community.

Just any online game. I'm surprised I haven't gotten a message from someone I pissed off in TF2

Even Melee's a bit divisive, since if you criticize anything from the Bamco-produced Smash Bros games they'll accuse you of being a Melee elitist.

PS4/5 servers are gone now too

And yeah lbp was my first experience with a mental community aswell. Before then I had just been an observer from the outside

As for the most toxic community, I feel like every community nowadays has a rabbit hole or 2 so deep and fucked up that it becomes hard to determine which is the worst. The most outwardly rabid one is definitely roblox tho

Probably the Alpharad Plus community when it existed a couple of years ago. The channel was somewhat rebranded, at least, in name, because of all the weird and wacky shit that got posted on twitter. It all culminated with a prolific member faking his death for clout, and a bunch of weird drama that boiled over outside of the internet. There were a lot of stupid bits we all played that, at the time, was probably pretty funny. I miss the comradery, but not the degeneracy.

The last time I "joined" a fandom (as in like, I cared about discourse, drama, and actively sought out people to talk to about the piece of media) was Undertale, everything else has just kinda been grandfathered in though I actively ignore anything to do with fandom happenings. Looking back, I think it laid the groundwork for a lot of things that we see happening nowadays. There was a weird purity culture to it, like not just disliking or not caring for nsfw art, but active hatred and aggression towards artists that drew it. And it was somehow this big affront to the character and everyone who had to see the art if you drew anything beyond PG-13.

Maybe this one was just my view, but there were also a lot more otherkin than I'd ever seen before, and nowadays that shits rampant. Kinners were Very Normal about fanart of their believed other, of course, why wouldn't they be?

All of the memes and in-jokes sucked, but I think that's actually just every fandom (or I'm just no fun).

The truly enlightened view is accepting that any gathering of people on the internet where the only shared thing is a piece of media will overwhelmingly attract a majority of psychopaths and weirdos who have nothing but the clout they believe themselves to have online.

The newgrounds community

Smash Brothers: Take a drink every time some snot-nosed brat/manchild bitches how his favorite character didn't get into the game (or in Mewtwo's case, was replaced) and rabidly hate the character that was revealed/replaced Mewtwo instead. Seriously, there was a time I hated Mewtwo and King K. Rool because of this shit. I even remember someone who was threatening Nintendo because K. Rool wasn't being announced as playable for Smash 4, I'm dead serious.

And while I never gave a shit for Fire Emblem or Xenoblade, the hate those franchise got just because they had characters that got in instead of the characters the brats want was fucking stupid and tiring.

god why did you need to call us out like this?

If there is one fandom is I can say is populated with people who can't tell fiction from reality, it's the Danganronpa fanbase.

-Doxing people over opinions on a ship? Check

-Getting overly offended and defensive when you make an edgy joke of one of the characters that a lot of people make? Check

-Decorating their entire houses with cardboard cutouts and other stuff of their favorite character? Check

-Thinking they're married to their waifus IRL? Check

-Wishing a YouTuber groomed children over a joke? Check

Seriously, this fandom might rival the Sonic fandom in terms of insanity.

Eddsworld fandom.

ive never really been part of a fandom heh ;))))

Same here buddy.

Still am.

Yikes! You are innocent. But there's a lot of cursed NSFW, plus most of the community is...Slightly obnoxious... to say the least

-Fellow cephalopod

The Fallout community is full of sweaty neckbeard redditors, “self proclaimed sigma males”, and weird political jargon. I stay away from those people

Probably when I was in the Brony community when I was like 7 years old and staid up extremely late on school nights to watch pirated episodes of My Little Pony on youtube.

this one

Literally this one in current year

that's just fallout new vegas fans

yea i got into jojo's at 2010, i got to see that community morph into every brand of bad community, lol.

Yea i started needing to mute the voice call in that game around 2021. Was bad before hand, just kept getting worse though.

The Tetris community... According to that woman in the news

Good call, I can't find any insane community i've been pert of. Think i've been lucky. But i know there is furry cosplay community for VR, so that's that.

Any big media platform these days. And it's not the community (probably). It's the mods and the Ai spam bots pretending to be real people that is the fake and gay shit.

Splatoon is a contender for one of the most annoying I've been a part of. It's not really THAT bad, but it's more annoying than anything.

https://youtu.be/on8m3OG_XkI?si=9MtzreEw2odm44kB

That community is weird, I can agree on that.

YOU DONT KNOW THE HALF OF IT...