If you are wondering why I've stopped responding in the political threads I was posting in, it is tearing me down emotionally. Slurs, dogpiling, that kind of stuff is exhausting and has caused me some depression. It remains to be seen if I'll be able to handle streaming but I hope you'll follow me!
I'm sorry but, what does forum drama have to do with your stream?
Enough that you felt like making a snide comment. Anyway, back to ignoring the forums.
edit: I'm going to say this and leave it at that. I am not obligated to restrict my posts to one specific thing or not discuss other things because you feel I should.
I have been flamed through multiple threads over wanting people to use the correct term for transgender and intersex. The entire forum had to be shut down to stop people from ripping me to shreds.
I had 4-6 people dogpiling me at once on the females in games thread, and throwing around slurs.
It has nothing to do with the frequency of my posting and everything to do with not respecting others.
You don't like that I'm mentioning it, then don't read or post in the thread.
When I say something is causing me depression, so sorry I haven't been responsive, your first thought shouldn't be "How can I make this person more anxious and depressed" nor would anyone dealing with the dogpiling and flaming I've put up with feel like anything but shit.
A lot of the problem is isolated to a few individuals, usually. Not always, but usually. None of this should have had to be said though. None.