#mechat fandom

Hi everyone! The r/MeChat fan-run subreddit has a Discord server! 

Join us to chat about your favorite characters, keep posted about the latest updates in MeChat and/or to make new friends! 

Everyone’s welcome!!

So my followers count hit 100 a few days ago and I thought of celebrating this milestone and expressing my gratitude by drawing an Elijah fanart! 

Thank you so much for following my little blog dedicated to MeChat (and LoveLink... but MeChat has come back in force and my attention has been sucked into it! 🙈 *I am sorry Austin, even you can’t draw my attention back fully*)

Even if I don’t interact with your blogs on a regular basis, I am truly grateful and sincerely appreciate your likes, reblogs and occasional asks and messages.

Also to all of you who have liked and/or reblogged my fake Goro and Elijah Tweet memes which get their full humorous meaning if you have read my fanfic story, I like to think that we are sharing a connection through those private jokes 🙈 Thank you for reading Aria’s, Goro’s and Elijah’s story!

Source: https://askmycats.com/stray-cat-follows-you/

If you like or reblog any of my stuff, I’m gonna follow you on your Tumblr like a stray cat seeking company or being just hella curious.

(Just... don’t be scared XD)

Also, if you’d like to play MeChat or Lovelink:

MeChat:

Click here for iOS

Click here for Android

Lovelink:

Click here for iOS

Click here for Android

Hello Anon! Thank you for checking on me! 🌺

Ah yes, recently I have been swamped with a lot of things work-wise and personal-wise.

And while I keep posting about the new matches becoming available, I haven't posted their CGs as usual! (I think I haven't posted Tyler, Aidan and Essen?)

While I'm still rooting for MeChat, I have to admit the recent matches have become quite formulaic and overly focused on sex. However, someone convinced me that there were more to Tyler/Vincenzo/Darwin after the second date and I'm giving a chance to the party boys' route.

But I guess I am getting smut-fatigue haha if that was possible! While I know that sex sells in media, I would love something that is wholesome and platonic and sweet, pretty much like David/Johnny's route but with less romantic attachment/infatuation.

I have also been keeping an eye on the r/mechat Discord server that I am managing and checking the last configuration settings of a MeChat roleplay server before I open it more broadly to people.

Feel free to drop by in the subreddit server and say hello!

Here's the invite link:

Hello fellow fan! Thank you for dropping in my inbox!

I started playing MeChat about 6 months after it launched on Android in January 2021. So the MeChat fandom is small not just on Tumblr but in other platforms as well.

From what I gathered from early threads in the r/MeChat subreddit, the game was a complete rip-off of its more successful cousin LoveLink (which was launched about 4-5 months earlier).

It had the same interface and color schemes. The matches' profile pictures were apparently traced from actual photos (for instance, Layla Fischer was seemingly traced over a photo of Belle Delphine).

Heck, even Lucas Pike's dog tags were lifted from LoveLink's Jonathan Hayes whose name was on Lucas' dog tags 😂

The stories were also badly translated into English from foreign languages (I do not know what language they were initially written in.) And the chats were littered with typos and grammar mistakes, when they do not seem to be written by amateur but enthusiastic fanfic writers without an experienced editor to help polish the stories. Some of the tropes and story plot points were also questionable and stirred strong emotions.

So the game was quite cringe-worthy at its launch.

But it went through an overhaul or a makeover when it updated to version 2.0.0. I think I started playing right then, when it was version 2.1.0 or so.

Profiles pictures were redrawn and native English speaking writers were being commissioned for the stories.

And then at some point, MeChat tested the waters with the release of Enzo Gomez profile as an unavailable match! Reactions were mostly negative at first but it also got the attention of players who were either curious or enthused about a potentially furry match. I think MeChat grew more confident in its art and characters concept design after seeing the positive reception on the subreddit (oh yeah, the team lurks on the sub!).

When I joined r/MeChat on Reddit in July 2021, I think there was around 2K members or less than that and now it grew to close to 9K. In comparison, LoveLink subreddit has now 13.4K members.

The company behind MeChat also implemented some questionable business/in-game practices in order to maximize purchases by players. For instance, non-gem choices are awful at times making players spending their gems on nicer choices (thus raising the chance that they purchase gems packs). Paid exclusive matches also rely on people's fear of missing out, which entices them to end up paying if the hold is really strong. VIP Subscription doesn't give any real benefits!

And let's not get started with the ads... 🙈😂

In spite of all of these, personally, I love MeChat, it's kind of an underdog I want to root for. With my friends, I call MeChat a trainwreck, but it's OUR trainwreck 😄

Your page is like a home for mechat community 💗 thank you, especially for welcoming to the new and anxious people like me 🙈😅

Thank you so much for taking the time to letting me know! 💗

I'm glad I'm contributing to making you feel welcomed in playing the game and comfortable in engaging its fandom! This goes straight to my heart!

Thank you so much, this is so sweet 🙈

I'm also very grateful for you joining in growing the MeChat fandom/blogosphere!