it’s not that i thought ffxiv would somehow be different lol. cuz honest to dog this is decades of this kind of bullshit i’ve seen at this point, bc literally EVERY video game fandom w a modding community is like this. every single one, it doesn’t matter what the game is. i mean it when i say decades of it too, legitimately this is going back to the mods people were making for like, shareware mac RPGs in the 90s and og baldur’s gate. it just feels like groundhog day to me now and i can’t even be angry with it at this point because i’m numb to the predictability of it all. but i’m legitimately fascinated with it in a trainwreck kind of way from a sociological standpoint because it’s like the collective id of a deeply racist/colorist/(trans)misogynist society is displayed on a giant neon billboard in 256 pt blinking comic sans and none of these people even realize it. that’s the wildest thing like nobody even knows these dots exist much less ever connects them. somehow these same content trends, these same content preferences, keep turning up in community after community year after year. the only thing that changes is the level of technical skill keeps going up commiserate w the evolution in technology and tools available to modders. but like you can absolutely draw a direct line from the questionable portraits of woc ppl were drawing in like, corel paint 1 for baldur’s gate games to some of teh real orientalist lookin shit i’ve seen in the past couple weeks since i switched to the win version and have been downloading stuff.
