Idk if you also were part of Orojackson but both WG and Orojackson were forums mostly oriented on powerscaling and other agenda posting, especially during popular weekly spoilers. There was a fandom called "Luffy defence squad" which intentionally provoked users "against Luffy", then report them to the mods to make them banned. There was also the popular debate about whether Luffy beats Big Mom in WCI. So you can already imagine how the discussions were often getting heated like that.
The mods were on some huge elitist ego trip tho. That's why they banned users for the most trivial reasons. Even
@comrade got banned like that.
I get why social media fandoms dislike WG but I also like how people can at least post their criticism - or hatred - to a popular series like One Piece when even some slight criticism would be censored in reddit subs. WG just works like that. It's very similar to OJ because a lot of the former users joined this forum but the mods are way less harsh than in OJ.
This place has the advantage that people can say whatever they want and people can do
almost whatever they want, with barely any consequence
I did a lot of forums in the past, goes from gaming (Counter Strike) to One Piece.
I also did Reddit, Discord, Worstgen and Twitter for One Piece.
What I can say is that every platform has its advantages and disadvantages.
Reddit falls very often into circle jerking. Everybody in a group have the same opinion, and they talk to eachother about how much they like that opinion. Don't you dare say something controversial in there. You won't find there a lot of hot takes, at least you won't see them, as it's "natural selection" of what fits the circle jerking.
Discord it heavily depends on the server you are in. /r/OnePiece is just too serious for One Piece unfortunately. The people in there are very great but I saw a lot of people get banned for very little things. It can suit certain people of course to be in such a server. BDA server is the opposite, it's just a big pile of mess and a very wild server where it's difficult to talk. People just shittalk about anything, I saw people dropping very controversial political comments, discriminatory remarks, etc. without getting any consequence.
Worstgen is much better than Reddit and Discord in my opinion. There is barely any circlejerking and the forum is much less serious than /r/OnePiece and less of a pile of shit than BDA Discord Server. You can talk about more things and there can be interesting conversations happening here. The problem is the powerscaling and agendas that are not for everyone. It is also very difficult to hold serious conversations here and interest people with "lore conversations" that do not concern agendas and powerscaling. The forum also doesn't have a very good image and reputation but it has its advantages too.
Twitter to me is more or less like Worstgen in that regard. The level of seriousness and shittalking is more nuanced and contrasted and it heavily depends on who you follow and what the algorithm proposes you. You can have a TL of good Tweets like you can have a TL of shitposts, depends on what the algorithm proposes and who you follow. Problem is the algorithm proposes Tweets that are "trendy" and that fit the algorithm so you will mainly see these and people will mainly be chasing these. You can converse different types of topics but you sense that people don't always post to post (which is normal). You can also get cooked if you post something controversial, catch a wild ratio or whatever so you have to be open to criticism and face opposing opinions but it is much better than being in the Reddit circlejerking.
TL;DR:
- go to Reddit if you just want to spectate or are are a pussy who is afraid of criticism
- go to /r/OnePiece Discord if you are a very serious One Piece connaisseur who wants to have the moral high ground
- go to BDA Discord if you just want to shittalk nonsense that may concern One Piece
- go to Worstgen forum if you prefer more genuine conversations and love discussing agendas and powerscaling
- go to Twitter if you want a feed that is personalized to your preferences and prefer sharing things over discussing stuff
