I’m going to be honest almost every game has a toxic community. To understand what toxic communities are, we need to first understand what it means to be toxic in games. Being toxic in a game is when someone or a group of people will go out of their way to make your gaming experience worse by using words against you or by their actions in the game. An example of people using words to be toxic is in between rounds or during the rounds they are insulting you non-stop to the point it becomes bullying, but it is not truly bullying because most people will do it back and it leads to an argument. An example of people being toxic in how they play the game is if someone on your team just follows you around giving your position away or trying to sacrifice you in survival games so that they can survive and win or just buy themselves some time.
So, with that being said let’s talk about the toxic communities in gaming. I will say that the talking aspect of being toxic has calmed down compared to what it was when I was a kid with kids telling me they would to expletive things to me and my family. Toxicity in gaming can make people stop playing for awhile or even forever. The real problem lies with the fact that being toxic is contagious and once someone starts being toxic to you, you reciprocate it and start being toxic to not only them but everyone else as well. This just gets people to spread it like wildfire.
With all of this being said everyone has been toxic in some way before, myself included. As much as people complain about it, it isn’t really that bad as some people see it. Everyone that plays games understands that everything said in these online environments doesn’t mean anything. Most of us grew up with much worse than what’s happening now. The most annoying parts are when they do something in the actual game, whether it;s giving your positioning away or targeting you in a survival game. People always are just trying to annoy you and make you angry, so the best way to deal with it is to just not care. Don’t take any of this to heart because if you do it might just make everything you do for the rest of that day worse. The only good thing toxicity in games does is that it will knock down some players off their high horse. It isn’t a terrible thing and isn’t a good thing. Toxic communities in gaming just makes a game annoying to play sometimes, but most players are toxic as well. So in the end, I do not think that Toxic communities are a bad thing, they are just annoying sometimes, but not bad.
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