OMORI's Awful Community

(The people saying I never liked your smile in the comments are friends of mine, ty for the DMs but I'm ok) This video was very draining to make, but I'm so glad it's finally out there. Content creation is a dream job for me and the fact that someone could try to so carelessly rip that away is so evil I don't even know what to say.

There are 2 sides of every fandom: -Artists, great memers, musicians and overall cool people -Twitter

"Omori is a game about 6 children, this has made a lot of people online very angry and sad" This shits better than the wiki.

As a wise man once said Twitter is a place where people will treat fictional characters like real people and real people like fictional characters and then get mad at you for knowing the difference

This feels less like Omori has an awful community, and more like Twitter is fucking moronic, But what else is new?

Twitter kinda ruins every fandom at this point i mean it is the internet

shipping discourse is stupid because there's no justification for hurting real people over fictional ships. yes, i mean every ship possible, even the ones i personally dislike

Osulan is a friend I've known for years and she always simply vibed with her art. Y'all will never know how much this stupid harassment hurt her

The whole story is about love, forgiveness and friendship. This is not the type of community you'd think it would attract.

I thought Omori had one of the best fandoms… Then I remembered I don’t have Twitter.

Honestly gotta give you props for speaking up about the bad side of the community cause the bad side itself is starting to get really apparent and just not worth being around as much :/

Omori was so meaningful to me given its realistic depiction of mental health struggles like suicidal ideation, depression, and anxiety. Genuinely, when I saw taking deep breaths and focusing to overcome a perceived yet ultimately imaginary threat was part of the game I almost cried... like yes, this game gets it! So often in media mental illness is depicted as padded cells, straight jackets, and maniacal laughter kind of way... instead of a much more realistic "I can't get out of bed" and "I want to live in a world of delusion until I die" kind of way. It's the first fandom in years that inspired me to get back into writing and made me realize how much I love doing so... but my lord the community should be avoided at all costs. The amount of grief I've seen people I care about go through disgusts me. Cowards advocating for people I know to commit suicide in private/anonymous DM's for example. Artists in general (much less artists for a game with the themes of Omori) are struggling with mental health and attempt to vent/cope through their art. I've seen some artists get called out for depicting self-harm of the characters (characters who engage in self-harm in the source material ffs...) and not once does anyone consider if there's a reason for it. My claim to fame in this community is almost nonexistent (a character analysis I was harassed into deleting, and some stupid comedy fics on ao3) and given we all know now how this community developed... I'm glad for that. I know I couldn't personally handle the mental anguish of the righteous mob mentality. I can't imagine being a notable artist or writer who touches upon problematic themes (usually as a way to vent/cope with real life trauma) as though writing/drawing them are advocating for them. Despite its many attempts, the community has not quite killed my interest in the game. While I know its message of learning to forgive yourself and others has fallen upon deaf ears, it's still an important story for me. I'm waiting for most of the community to move on to the next thing they can ruin, because if there's anything I've learned it's that a smaller crowd of like-minded people and content creators are better than a million shrieking children (if not in age than in mentality) trying to earn internet clout by being holier-than-thou, cancel everybody, twitter Jesus's. Ok, I'm rambling... sorry, I tend to do that. I'm sure I got a little incoherent there, it's late at night when I'm writing this but I just had to say how much I appreciate this video. You're doing God's work sir.

"even if you're hate-watching this video right now" I don't even know who you are

Differentiation between fantasy and reality begins development around the age of 3 on average. This community makes me think something has hampered their capability of separating fiction from reality.

So sad to see a game all about forgiveness have such an unforgiving fandom

23:35 thats because of the "every kel meme is canon" meme terminally online ppl came up with that meme, and fight the memers that are not aligned with their twisted ideas

Fandoms are the perfect example of the hedgehog dilemma. You want to get close to see all the cool fan works, but you don’t want to get too close to stay away from the toxicity.

It's so so sad to me because OMORI is genuinely such a beautiful game that has LITERALLY had a scientific article written about it (Trauma in OMORI's Environmental Design on Sage Journals) and is what truly spiked my interest in neuroscience It is such an incredible RPG and it's so sad to see people stripping it of that online. Like for a moment think of the science that goes into this creation,,,

Most people don’t know this, but the community has reached Steven universe fandom level of bad before. It’s overlooked a lot because granted, they made some racist blackface jokes, and cursed out another famous artist’s au, but they were just a damn kid. They apologized, it was okay, but people were still adamant on attacking them. I say it got Steven universe bad, because this artist tried to su1cide because of all the harassment, this minor. Luckily they’re okay now, but it really shows how far this community can get

LMAO WHAT?? SHE DIDN'T UNFOLLOW SOMEONE FAST ENOUGH?? WHO THE HELL???? 😂😂😂😂 Seriously the people that messed with STAR, TOUCH GRASS, GET A LIFE. People aren't on the internet 27 DAMN.