Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27234079-20200128040628

Hey, guys. So sorry about the wall of text but I needed to bring some attention to the community in regards to the RWBY Fan Forge event. If you have a moment, please read through this message. The RWBY Fan Forge was a contest hosted by RoosterTeeth and ForFansByFans, in which the concept of the project is artists create designs for official RWBY merchandise, and fans vote for what they want. While not all the designs voted for would be chosen, the more popular ones in theory would have likely been selected as merch.

Following the announcements, a lot of voters were left feeling as though what they had voted for was largely ignored, as out of the voted designs, none of the 5 most popular designs were picked as official merchandise, nor were 2 of the 3 best-voted ones.

As a result, many thought that the spirit of the competition had been defeated, leading to backlash by voters. In the ensuing talk about, a popular community member under the name of Calxiyn who is against the backlash began to tread into a very toxic attitude in regards to it, insulting the popular designs and going as far as accusing a user who had been speaking in regards of the Fan Forge of stalking and hounding her about the Fan Forge, which is confirmed to be untrue. Calxiyn later tried to use her popularity to pressure the other user.

In light of this, I wanted to bring attention to hypocritical and toxic behavior within the community, and to say this is not okay. Furthermore, this is not a post meant to call anyone to attack or otherwise target Calxiyn, but that we, the community, need to stop being toxic to anyone who does not agree with you, and/or if they bring up reasonable criticism about a topic.

I'd like to thank SpiritedDreaming, one of our staff members, for helping write this out, I don't want the post to come off as hostile or with malicious intent, so please don't take it the wrong way 