My man, if it's as you say, please take a break. Try to cool off. I hope you don't break down. Reach out to friends/family, etc..
I've been following OP for 18 years now, so I understand the emotional connection.
You'll be missed if you go, but it's understandable.
I recommend getting a ban and disconnecting from OP for a while, then re-evaluating the situation again in a few months.
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As for Youtubers, I never touch their videos lol
It'd be a good idea ignoring those ignoramuses as well.
Yeah OP youtube culture is extremely toxic tbh. Especially in the toxic positivity, cult-like sense. It makes us here look like civilised, even utopian society maybe.
That's also why I haven't started a youtube channel because I would have to be purposely neutral at best to be safe on there in regards to Oda and OP or wank OP and Oda off and clickbait hard with thumbnails and titles that are sensationalist as fuck to really succeed too.
I won't mention their names but one friend of mine who is a certain OP youtuber is massively underrated and is fornerly known here and works very hard on his videos, but barely gets the recognition he deserves I believe.
Another one has really flanderised himself and feels like another KoL somewhat. He's really become toxic and OTT, but he's a very extroverted and louder/larger than life guy.
I will mention a 3rd though, my homie Drizzt who I've seen get completely dragged by the OP community for many years, which had upset him deep down too and made him embrace the Drag Down and Emperor Palpatine stuff now too.
I used to love his theories, analysis and memes but since he dared to hate WCI and Wano openly and unashamedly, that was it for him in the community and now hes the constant scape goat and butt of the jokes of the OP youtubers, who subtly and even openly mock him and such.
If I did become a Youtuber I would have to put on a very fake and even exaggerated persona I think. Or at least do that with my titles and thumbnails.
I used to love browsing the OP theories on YouTube by so many former active big and small OP youtube theorists, those were the best days until the Soyboy I mean Joyboy Theories nation attacked and changed everything with his meteoric rise and driving them all away.
The OP youtube community got much worse then. But hell in the mid-late 2000s I received literal death threats and hate mail from OP fans for saying I liked some of the 4kids voice acting and now people unironically love, embrace and massively support some of the VA in it Especially Zoros who imo simultaneously unironically and ironically is far superior to the wooden, lifeless, lazy funimation dub imo. Also fuck the scummy, two faced, degenerate hypocrites at Funimation for various reasons anyway lmfao.
But yeah idk why I rambled on about all of that, just had to get it off my chest I guess.
I appreciate it
@Akai2 that's great advice and thank you. I might just stay and avoid OP somehow.
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On a side note I really recommend this video by
@WalnutTax , it's very well made and entertaining:
There is great content and creators in the OP youtube community ofc and these examples of that^^^.
I just wonder and dread if Oda will actually mistreat the Admirals, Shanks, Blackbeard, Mihawk, Garp etc like he's done to Kaido and BM especially sigh. Kidd has suffered too ofc.