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have increasingly noticed people talking less and less to me on plurk, doesn't matter how much i reach out and talk to others. dwrp has always been fairly cliquey but i feel like the ic & ooc cliquiness has gotten much worse and made dwrp even more unwelcoming in the last year or so.

yup, same

sorry you're in this shitty hole too, anon

sssssame. I still have a handful of people who will reliably chat with me, but it feels like I'm getting less and less traction.

this is why i finally ended up deleting my plurk to be honest

Yeah I use plurk exclusively for updating people on my new posts/logs or hiatus notices now. Otherwise not a single person replies to my personal/chatting plurks. It very much sucks because part of the reason I came back to journal rp was I missed the social aspect of being in a game.

i have so many wonderful fantasies about how posting this or that will open up fun conversations about things. X person is interested in Y, or A likes fandom B, surely they'll like these things i'm plurking about!

and then nothing. it's...crushing, honestly. i've accepted that it's me, that i'm just boring or obnoxious, but i don't know what it is i'm doing that makes people want to avoid me.

that sounds like a problem with your expectations tbh

not everyone is going to respond to every single one of your off topic/personal/fandom gushing plurks. like, they just aren't. i barely get people replying to my rp focus plurks so i don't expect them to give a shit about the new episode of insertserieshere that i just watched. when people do respond then it IS great, but it's gonna be rare. or people you are friends with outside of rp talking to you about it.

not really. it's not unrealistic to expect a little interaction and mutual interest from people, especially when i try to express interest in the stuff they do. no one else on my timeline has as many zero-response plurks as i do. every time they post a doodle they made, or a link to some fandom thing, or what they had for lunch, they get tons of responses.

like i said, i get that it's just me. but it bothers the shit out of me that there's something about what i am that inspires this kind of apathy or revulsion in other people.

I doubt it's anything you're doing, anon. I feel like a lot of active people still hanging around dwrp have had the same group of friends for eons now and they rp, chat, and move on to the same fandoms and games together, so there is no reason to reach out and make new friends. Especially when so many people app games and only stay for 2 to 3 months. I think we're all subconsciously thinking this new person on our tl will disappear in a hot second so what's the point of getting to know them.

tbh agreed. like even outside the social aspect, i feel like getting good cr these days without being friends with the other player is vastly more difficult than it used to be. it wasn't like this even a few years ago.

same, and it's definitely cliquishness because it got a lot worse once I dropped my only game

i came here to say this only to see it's already been said

it's so frustrating and depressing to see everyone else getting dozens of responses to their plurks no matter the subject matter while i'm here getting nothing regardless of rp vs rl

i miss the social aspect of talking about our characters, fandoms, threads, etc and no matter the topic or how frequently i respond to others, i get nothing in return and it's incredibly disheartening

same anon.

not only that but trying to engage with others in their rl/fandom plurks made me feel annoying. this seems to be an ongoing trend here and it is really disappointing. i miss when this place felt like an actual community.

as someone who tends to get a lot of replies even from people i don't rp with consistently:

you mostly have to get lucky and click with someone on a personal level on top of the fandom stuff. i've managed to make a lot of strong, genuine friendships not based on rp but i've also been cultivating them for years. if the entire basis of your friendship is rp it won't last long.

if you really like someone try to show more interest in them and do other things together like play video games or watch movies/shows together. talk about non-fandom stuff. that's how i got mine.

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