The 13th Kenpachi 4,279 Posted January 4, 2017 I forgot to put this on back when I posted it and I only remembered it now Complaint No. 5: Self-Entitlement We all know the fiasco back in D23 Japan 2015. We all know the thing with Jump Festa 2016. We also know about the thing about the 2.5 launch event. Here's the thing: wherever a news article about an upcoming convention has "Kingdom Hearts" and "trailer" attached to it in a single sentence, "fans" are automatically considering themselves as entitled for a new trailer, like Square Enix owes them a trailer just with that sentence alone. Honestly, I'm dumbfounded on this basis. I have a golden rule when it comes to stuff like trailers. I don't and won't expect anything a new promotional content from Square Enix or any other company until 1. it will be shown in a livestreamed event (E3, PSX, Jump Festa at times, if Kingdom Hearts really is in their SE Presents livestream lineup) or 2. the digital team (or Nomura himself, in some instances) for Kingdom Hearts announces that there will be an upcoming trailer at a specific date and time. I can't see why this is not the general consensus among the community. Just because "a trailer will be shown at the convention" does not exactly mean that it will be for the eyes of everyone in the goddamn planet Earth. I remember having this snippet in the article regarding the D23 Japan Kingdom Hearts event: "a trailer will be shown exclusively for the attendees" or something along those lines. YET PEOPLE IGNORED THAT SNIPPET just because its not in the same sentence as "Kingdom Hearts will be showing a trailer at this event"! I dunno why this was a thing, its probably because personalities like TheGamersJoint or HMK hypes the crap out of stuff like this (no hate, just telling the blatant truth) [crap, I mentioned TGJ and HMK... now I have to tackle this... *facepalms*] Complaint No. 6: Hypers, Theorists, etc. [again, no hate, just the blatant truth] I don't watch the x-keepers, or whatever they're called, except for Dean (SoraAlam1), more on this later. I usually read news/fan sites like KH13 and KHI for Kingdom Hearts news. The thing is, it became an impression to me that what they're posting is straight up clickbait, and they're doing it for views to reach a certain quota (I dunno how YouTube-ing works, nor I am interested in knowing). It also seems though as if the moment a certain thing about Kingdom Hearts has moved, they're into it. For example: moments after Utada Teruzane accidentally mentioned that they're working towards KH3's opening, a good two hours later, I already saw a TGJ video regarding it. After Teruzane-san took back that statement, I had no idea what happened to that video. Don't get me wrong, knowing something is good. And letting your audience know about what you know is good. However, doing it in such an annoying fashion, is a straight up no-no. And by annoying fashion, I mean posting a video every day or so, having no substance at all, or posting up theories, which might be good at first, is dumb enough to be debunked from a technical perspective. Like how Gula and KH3 Sora had the same pose, and someone said that they're related (probably a coincidence)... or about the "20 locks in Luxu's case pertains to 13 darknesses and 7 lights (cases need to have a side needed to open upon, either remove 4 or 3 locks in that theory, please) Lemme quote a friend here: "Its okay to open up theories and share information, but it is not good to force-feed theories as if it was the truth." Nowadays, because of the way those theories have been force-fed to some people, some people consider it to be the truth. Another thing I hate about these guys is the way they behave, apart from causing drama in the KH speedrunning community at some point (both conflicts resolved, won't talk further into this since the people involved might not like this being brought back to life in detail), Their behavior is kinda... embarrassing up to the point that if I was their parent, I'd disown them right then and there. Hyperbolic reactions on trailers, HMK screaming at SE Press Conference back in E3 2015, and again at the Kingdom Hearts panel at SE presents livestream, and many more that I can't recall. I'll sum it up in this one, "non-rude" question: "Do these guys have ADHD?" Now, regarding Dean. I exempted Dean on this complaint because of one reason: in my eyes, he PROBABLY (note the word here) realized that this is becoming a problem and has decided to tone things down. Compare his video from around 4 years ago to his videos now... there's a difference. Out of the bunch, he now seems to be the grown-up among the babies. Now you might be thinking: "You're firetrucking biased towards Dean..." True, because he's the more mature and the person whom I can talk into comfortably regarding actual KH facts... unlike some other guys whose answer to me will be "because this is the popular theory, this is the truth" [again, for the third time, I am not hating on the x-Keepers, even though it does seem that way. I am only telling the blatant truth.] Don't care for HMK's content in all honesty. He used to have really great theories and I used to watch him a lot, but once 2016 started he posted more often and his quality dropped. Instead of thinking outside the box like he did before, he just goes with the popular theories that are on KH13 and Khinsider's forums. His attitude towards IGN isn't something I agree with either. I like Dean's content and I like SkywardWing's content, TGJ videos are okay sometimes but I don't want to start going off topic. I can agree with you that the sense of entitlement is disgusting and ties a little into the disrespect for the Final Fantasy franchise that some people have. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KairiKeybasH 851 Posted January 18, 2017 We need to address the Elephant in the room: The Shipping side of the fandom. The Core of Extreme Toxicity. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheKeyofRose 282 Posted January 18, 2017 (edited) We need to address the Elephant in the room: The Shipping side of the fandom. The Core of Extreme Toxicity. Debatable that's a touchy subject even for me Ship what you ship don't insult others for having different ships simple as that. People who do are just bad apples and KH has a much better shipping community then most fandoms thank god. (Admittedly because most people ship the same thing.) The shipping community is also different from the general KH community in that both don't intertwine to often. Edited January 18, 2017 by TheKeyofRose Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Deathdealer 96 Posted January 18, 2017 (edited) I disagree with point no.2 I'm fine with all the Kingdom Hearts game even with their faults, I think that's more of an opinionated personal problem, not one with the fandom as a whole. The only real problem I have with the community is it's outright distain for becoming multiplatform. Me personally I love Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep hell I like it more than KH1 combat system and all. Edited January 18, 2017 by Casper Formadi Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
