Someone needs to do a large scale social study and figure out why the aim community seems unable to stay out of drama. I can't understand if this is true of every online community and I just notice it more because of my feed, but it really feels worse than any other community I have seen.
I think that not saying random offensive/racist/discriminatory stuff is not something one should have any struggle with, so I don't understand why this keeps happening. I understand that most people are very young in the community so maybe that's the root cause.
That said, I don't understand this love for the big "About the X situation" posts with a bunch of screenshots and text etc. "exposing" people either. I am too old to know what it feels like to be a teenager in a discord community, but I can at least understand people defending themselves saying that whatever idiotic statement they said was due to their young age, as long as they openly admit to being wrong, especially if they have shown to have grown out of that phase for a long time and to have been a positive influence. People can learn from their mistakes and they can get over them, so what is the goal of trying to stir up drama with years old screenshots?
In general I think I don't understand why a community whose goal should be self improvement in esports (which is supposed to be a fun thing...?) seems to spend 500x the effort either being stupid and offensive for attention, or "exposing" others for attention, than actually training or playing games. Even when people make educational resources lately I have seen immediate drama in the comments, usually name calling, with no added value from either party, regardless of the actual quality of the resource.
I am not against confrontation or discussion, obviously. I do it all the time. But usually I have a goal in mind, 99% of the time the goal is to fight misinformation, or to get to the bottom of some question/doubt. So one could call this drama too, of course, but I think my issue is with the sterile nature of the drama that has been happening for at least the last 3ys in this community, where it's literally self destruction of what could be a great place for people to find a more structured environment to learn how to be better gamers.
Basically, I am just sad because I know at this point "we" the aim community are (to a degree, rightfully so), seen as a joke to basically everyone that is exposed to us without being actively part of it.
I am not even trying to make a point with this post. I just wish this would stop happening.