Do you think the KRP community has changed in the last three to four years?
omg, I realize how broad that last question was. Maybe in the last year or so?
I’ve only been in the krp community for a little over a year, before that I was in the HP roleplay community on and off for about eight or so years.
In the time that I’ve been in this community, I definitely think that it has changed.
When I joined a year ago there wasn’t this huge literate/illiterate thing going on. People just didn’t care and roleplayed with whoever. They actually gave roleplayers a chance instead of going to their blog ‘oh, she’s illiterate -closes tab-‘. I understand that not everyone’s roleplay style matches with your own, but that doesn’t mean you should count someone out just because their style is different.
I feel like the community is more divided now. Everyone has their “type” and they only roleplay with certain people. I don’t really like that because you can really miss out of some great muses/muns to roleplay with it.
I like that the community is more open to plotting, and there are more paras going on. Last summer when I joined there aren’t really a lot of para based roleplays, or paras in general, it was almost always all script and action. Plotting was nearly unheard of. AU has become a big thing now, it used to be rare but everyone’s doing it.
There are more smut based accounts now, where they’re only created to roleplay smut. The need for smut in the community was there last year too, but now it’s something fierce.
Age has become a big thing within the community. It’s mostly for the smut reason, nobody 18+ wants to smut with a minor and vice versa, and that’s an understandable thing, but now when someone finds out someone’s age they usually steer clear if they’re not in their desired age range (ex: ‘her mun is 15, ugh, too immature, I can’t rp with her’ / ‘she’s 23 ooc, omg what is she doing roleplaying, bitch needs to get a job and get off the internet’). NEWS FLASH, NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO SMUT WITH YOU, OKAY!? SOME PEOPLE JUST WANT TO ROLEPLAY WITHOUT SMUT BEING INVOLVED!!!!
There are a lot of double standards; female roleplayers/characters get attacked and called thirsty. But, when a guy character comes around looking for dick too, nobody says anything. Girls are always attacking girls and making off handed comments. It’s a lot of unnecessary drama and a lot of complaints.
I think the community is almost the complete opposite of what it was. It’s kind of sad when you look at it now compared to a year ago.
It feels as if nobody in the community is truly happy.
