[ SECRET POST #6890 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6890 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Genshin Impact]



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[Fandom: Mean Girls/Diary of a Wimpy Kid]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 30 secrets from Secret Submission Post #984.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[case]

Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

[(Anonymous)]

Someone's commenting "not fandom" on every secret today.

[(Anonymous)]

I commented not fandom only once, and then wrote a wall of text in reply. It was about Genshin. Why did you delete it Case? Should I cpy a comment that started a thread that I don't like so it gets deleted?

(frozen comment)

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01. https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/154550d596d2.png
[Genshin Impact]

Transcript by OP

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I just watched my favorite streamer spend $89 trying to get an exclusive character in Genshin Impact. I know this happens all the time, but it kind of blows my mind to have sat and watched someone do it in real time. This is why I refuse to play gacha games and free to play games with predatory marketing tactics. It honestly makes me sick. I am afraid that all games are going to go in this direction in the future because it's so effective at separating people from their money.I guess if that really happens I'll simply stop playing new games, because I will NOT participate in this bullshit.

[(Anonymous)]

It's less crazy if this streamer is making an actual, liveable income playing this game, but I feel bad for normal people who do that. I'm not a gamer, though. The idea of spending real money (which I don't have a lot of!) on fake whatever just to get ahead in a game is insane. $98 is close to a week's grocery money for me.

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I once spent ten bucks on a gacha game trying to get my favorite character. I got him, but I felt kinda weird about it afterwards. I can't imagine spending $89.

[(Anonymous)]

from $1.98 to $475.2

Are you kidding me?? Oh Lord....

That added in with Secret OP having watched a streamer spend $89, this is why I can't engage with a lot of fandom stuff. ='(

So much of it feels so predatory from creators/promoters and so many fans miss out purely due to not having the means to "join in on the fun".

I grew up lower middle class, and I grew up with parents who had gambling issues, so it's so shitty with the state of things with most fandoms now.

The expectation to spend money prevents so many people from joining in on official fandom engagements and events, and it always breaks my heart a bit. It's a small pain that I understand all too well lmao so I suppose I'm a bit sensitive to this issue.
But the bigger issue at hand is how everything is gamefied now. Fandom just feels like a giant gambling hall. You have to spend money to be rewarded with perks, and it just feels so utterly predatory.

[starfleetbrat]

honestly $89 isn't even a lot when it comes to people spending money on gatcha games and other games with microtransactions. some people spend thousands of dollars (they are called "whales") and those companies that make the games track players who spend a lot of money on in game stuff and create items specifically aimed at them to purchase for big bucks. Its 100% predatory.

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I haven't gone within 10 feet of games like these and it's 100% because of how predatory they are. Like I have bought store mounts for WoW and ff14 I would absolutely be susceptible by the kind of marketing gatcha games do, so I refuse to engage to begin with to save my wallet.

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It doesn't even have to be a good game - I remembered this Reddit story where a guy was complaining about his cousin always asking him for money, then it turned out that the guy in question (not the cousin) had spent $7600 on Monopoly Go.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/1ndzrjh/my_cousin_keeps_asking_me_for_56_almost_every_day/

[(Anonymous)]

I will never understand the pearl clutching about spending on a gacha game. Obviously, they want to make money and will incentivize you spending it. It's a product, they're a business. Gacha tell you straight up what the odds are, if anyone's going in blind, it's their fault for not reading. Or it's their parents faults for not being vigilant on parental controls and payment options.

Like, if you're spending to the point you can't stop, you've got an addiction, and you'd have a different one if it wasn't to gacha. It would probably be to some other form of gambling. Casinos? Horse races? Whatever it is that fills that dopamine rush.

But there's absolutely nothing wrong with dropping money on something that makes you happy. Even if other people think it's stupid. Or wasteful. Or whatever. Some people buy new video games each month. Others spend $100 on gacha. Or on make up. Or clothes. People collect shoes. Or buy fancy pens. And I know people will be all 'yeah but you get a physical thing out of those', and I'm just going to say 'if it makes you happy and you can afford it, go forth and have fun'.

[(Anonymous)]

honestly, i don't have a problem with it these days because it's SO much less predatory than it used to be. it used to be that there was NO guarantee on pulling a character from a banner, so if you had bad luck you could wind up spending $1000+ to get a character you wanted. now days pity exists, so you know that you'll max out at a certain number of pulls and then you'll be guaranteed that character.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I spend money on gacha. I haven't bought any new games in years and rarely spend on anything else, so it's not a big deal for me to drop money on it from time to time. The only issue I see with it is when it becomes a compulsion/addiction, and a person is emptying their bank account to get a bunch of pixels in a game that will eventually reach EOS.

[(Anonymous)]

Casual gacha player here, most of the time I never had a penny to spend so I never did. I may have gotten unemployed and in dire need and illegally sold my stuff once or twice. lol. I don't think a week's worth of grocery shopping is an insane amount for someone to spend on gacha, but if they do it regularly and not once or twice a year, yeah. That's a gambling addiction and you better stop now bro.

What really gets me watching streamers is that sometimes they blow up way more than that at once. I can buy food for nearly a month with $100 let alone $500. It reminds me of social inequality so it's not fun to watch imo

The other thing that gets me crazy is how Genshin has become this Serious Business Battles game because of you guessed it, small dick incel type guys who need to fucking let everyone know that the meta team xxx they spent $5000 on does 935,763 damage meanwhile that popular streamer only did 925,521. Oh Lord it's people like that who actually drive the insane revenue of these games made by poor companies who employ 3 friends and AI lol so they keep making harder content and then the harder content gives bigger rewards and now we are just reinventing capitalism on a silly game microcosm, where the rich keeps getting richer because they have the means and a seemingly endless small dick complex

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[Fandom: Mean Girls/Diary of a Wimpy Kid]

Transcript by OP

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I found out about Tiktok shipping Regina George with Rodrick Heffley, and this has resparked my crack ship love

Rodrina makes a lot of sense (popular ice queen meets alternative cool guy in an enemies to lovers setup!!) and I adore the countless fake movie trailers I run across on YT

I'm a little too old for this and I generally don't like high school themes anymore, but this is my punishment for testing my sister for still liking high school drama

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Transcript by OP

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IRL, pollen is my enemy. (stupid pesky allergies)

But in fanfiction, I love me some sex pollen and I always will. Yes, it messes with the issue of consent.

That's what makes it hot.

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Transcript by OP

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I can't stand when people complain about ________ is allowed on Ao3. Just leave. Go to Wattpad or make your own Ao3. Ao3 makes it super easy to avoid things you don't want. Adapt or die.

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Transcript by OP

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It's always a little funny to me to watch female-dominated fandoms wring their hands and moralize about slashing fictional men and objectifying characters in porn, then turn around and male-dominated fandoms are happily having every hot canon lesbian fuck random anonymous faceless dudes because of course porn is for objectifying

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Transcript by OP

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Collapsed for length!

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NS, NF, etc.

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[(Anonymous)]

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Hope you all had a good weekend!

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