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Have you ever thought about leaving TBT?

yeah i've gotten all the collectibles i've sought after and so have most of my friends, so i'm pretty much done.

i'll keep the tier list going, and there's the possibility i'll look for in-game animal crossing stuff and open up a rlc art thread just for more work, but collectibles and events have gotten too toxic. i'm glad staff favourites have returned in place of reaction voting but people congregating to make sure certain users don't win events, lying to & manipulating people to get their votes, scamming and scalping, and lying to people to get their ultra-rare collectible have just left too sour of a taste in my mouth and i can't get excited about events or collectibles anymore. knowing names but not being able to say anything has made it all worse.

community-wise, there's too much fostering of transphobic/homophobic/racist beliefs and bothsidesism here that i can't feel comfortable supporting the place. i've stayed as long as i could because i have friends here and for some reason i thought it'd be rude of me to not help them with collectibles and events and whatnot whenever i was able, but it's not my responsibility especially if it's impacting me negatively. thankfully most of them i can reach through discord now anyways.
 
nah. i already left for two years. there was no particular reason for it. (but it did give me some time to grow up a bit, so maybe it was a good thing). I had also accumulated two warnings on my profile from back then.

there's oddly nothing keeping me attached to this place. my friends are elsewhere online, making me more of an outsider or loner here. I haven't particularly been too interested in the events aside from the egg hunt. i'm not really that interested collectibles aside from a very select few.

But I'm having fun. I like reading what others have to contribute in topics and I think it's a nice and easy going community.

so that's all it takes sometimes for a place to be enjoyable
 
I overall have positive feelings about TBT, but I have to say I feel similarly to @/seliph in the last part of their post. I've stuck around mainly because of my interest in Animal Crossing and became more active since finding out (a bit belatedly lol) about the fun parts of the community like the events, but some of the attitudes I've seen about certain things since being more active make me wonder if I really wanna hang around here this much. I know it's not everyone, but it's prevalent enough that I've been strongly considering taking a step back and sticking mostly to the AC boards like I used to. I don't know if I'd make a conscious decision to leave for good though. I tend to just come and go as I feel like it anyway, and I have enough fun and nice interactions that it's worth it for me at the moment.
 
I thought about it, but not in over two years. I had a few members here convince me to stay despite wanting to leave. I didn't have the best experience here two years ago, and frankly, I have nobody to blame for that but myself. It seems like everyone's pretty much forgotten about what happened, or that I redeemed myself making the past less relevant as a result.

I can't see myself ever leaving the forums now, though. I don't play Animal Crossing much anymore but there's something about this forum I like. Maybe it's the staff keeping up with the frequent events? There's barely more than a three month without anything going on, and to my knowledge, there's at least one larger scale event each year. I can't possibly imagine how much effort goes into this, but I know how appreciative the community is. It keeps everyone coming back.
 
ive left before in the past simply because i lost interest in the place, but every time i leave I come back more mature so I feel like that's not a bad thing. i don't think i could ever leave permanently but ive taken hiatuses for a few months just rarely checking in before, i have thought about leaving permanently but idk i think id end up coming back anyways
 
Zane said:
no but there’s occasionally long stretches of time where i don’t use it at all. i was gone for like 2 years and no one noticed
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Zane said:
no but there’s occasionally long stretches of time where i don’t use it at all. i was gone for like 2 years and no one noticed
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I did the same from late April of 2022 to late August of 2023, I wonder if the users here actually knew of my absence.

Also a bit of an update, I appear to be staying here. I was only upset over the shock of what happened last Wednesday. I'm definitely over it now and willing to improve my wordings in my sentences from this forward on.
 
Similar to others I don’t really believe in a formal “leaving” but there are busier times in life where I don’t check in on the forum regularly. I still stay in touch with forum friends though :)
 
i go on and off here. i wouldn't totally call myself a "regular", as i leave and come back a few times a year, usually when my interest in AC peaks again
 
of course. as mentioned previously, the way certain hateful, extremely narrow minded, or just obviously wrong opinions have been handled is too upsetting and frustrating. myself and others should not have to exist in a space like that or accept these things. i truly hope in the future, the site becomes/continues to be more inclusive and doesn't create or tolerate hate by allowing it to manifest.

i joined tbt to enjoy all things animal crossing, i never joined to educate people on why they should not be transphobic/homophobic/racist/generally horrible, threads that are obviously provoking and harbouring these 'discussions' (there is no discussion to be had) should be shut down straight away. if someone wants an opportunity to share their horrible opinions freely, they should just f off turn to google, not here. i don't even check brewster's anymore because i don't have the emotional energy to potentially deal or see something along the lines of above. that is not how you harbour or create a positive community.

a lot of these are scenarios from a while ago, but people reading this who were around at the time probably know exactly what I'm talking about. they are still being mentioned and remembered now because of how hurtful they were.

i've stayed so long because of friends, the art community, and events but there's been many times where I've had to take a long break, because of the above or just life being life
 
One of my friends left recently and at this point I'm thinking I might be around a lot less if something were to happen to another friend. I don't think anything will happen, but the possibility is there.
 
Nah not really. I don’t really get the need to formally leave a forum, I don’t feel the need to. I go in and out of periods of activity. I don’t really have friends here, I just go along to my own groove lol
 
I’ve been considering it lately but most likely won’t. Aside from cat twitter which I’m taking a break from, I’m no longer active in any other communities (not counting discord servers). Right now this and my friends here are the only things keeping me together.
 
i have not thought about it. i did take a short leave earlier this year, but it was not intentional. i will most likely be more active from now on.
 
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