Sims 4 Toxic Twitter

"Babykittyjade;c-17778817" wrote:

"Chicklet453681;c-17778716" wrote:
I usually pop onto twitter every day just to see if there's any new news from the sims team and I, for sure see the nasty replies to every single tweet from The Sims twitter account, the Guru's twitters accounts, to players that have positive things to say about a pack or feature or just TS4 in general. It's extremely toxic.

On Twitter it only takes one person to say something negative, then 100's of sheep (followers) chime in with a similar or same rant. Sad thing is, I've read many times people said they say they don't like TS4 even tho they secretly do because they get bashed if they praise any part of it. Twitter is a very clique-y, popularity site, the more likes and followers you get from posts you make, they more important it makes you feel. That's the generation The Sims is marketing to, that demographics. Young people who only want to follow the "cool" kids and not speak on their own behalf.

This is my exact experience. It's so mentally draining. There are even simmers to dedicatedly post negativity about ts4 Evey single day without fail. And if anyone says anything positive the gang jumps on them. They roast gurus and tag them in nonsense all day. I always say this but humanity has truly fallen and it's a sad thing to see.? all thos over a video game...

I even tried to filter out the negative posters and still see it all over the place so I gave up.
I'm barely on there now. Infact I'm ready to delete the app as soon as ts4 ends. But as of now it's one of the best sources of ts4 info and direct connection with gurus. So I pop up for guru tweets and pack info.

Might help using this link. Don't need a Twitter account to view it which is nice and filters out all the negative and fan noise and get to the news stuff: https://twitter.com/i/lists/994711305746501632?lang=en

"LiELF;c-17778719" wrote:
Yes, definitely. It's one thing to give constructive and helpful criticism with suggestions on how to improve something. It's entirely another to obsess over things you hate and rant and rave at anyone and everyone about it. It astounds me that there are still people who don't understand the difference.

But this is why I much prefer the Forums. It's more heavily moderated here, you can report troublemakers, and choose which threads to be (or not be) part of.

The article does touch on something important, though. The devs use Twitter to open up an avenue of communication with their player base, and since they've been more active on there, we get more information than we used to. But more and more Gurus are falling back into the background and going silent again, most likely because of the people who don't seem to be able to control themselves and their attitudes. I just hope that we can keep the Forums civil enough for them to consider more activity over here.

I thought the forums were bad but Twitter is on a new level of negative crazy ??
This is something I definitely noticed. When I first joined Twitter to keep up with the simgurus they were posting way more. Simguruninja in particular would retweet cool sim stuff he found and was always sharing or tweeting something. Now it's barely anything from any of them except strict pack promotion. The occasional dog or food pic and I don't blame them one bit. I think it's to the point where they don't even want to interact with simmers. ?

I don't think it's just a Twitter thing. I don't do Twitter, it doesn't float my boat, but YouTube has some pretty terrible comments in Sims related videos. Towards the game and towards simmers. People fail to realize that this game wasn't made for one type of player, but for a variety of players. Those who like realism or supernatural or fantasy or whatever. Not everything is going to make everyone happy all of the time and it makes them mad so they have to go and cry to everyone else and complain about how they hate what EA is doing all while buying every Sims pack that they claim to hate.
I for one let my Sims Flag Fly and if anyone tries to make me feel bad for loving the sims, well I feel bad for them more for not having something to love.

"Scobre;c-17778811" wrote:
Yeah Twitter I avoid using and now that is has been used as a weapon, it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth how long the site itself has remained unmoderated before it was too late. Twitter I do find to be the most toxic part of the Sims community. Actually heard some horror stories from Game Changers how they had to close their account for a bit from their "so called fans" attacking them. I rather be on forums, Twitch, and modthesims which have more experienced mods moderating their sites. Twitter feels like it has lazy young moderators with no experience. Some of the biggest dramas that come from forums actually come from Twitter, so it is the fire that feeds many flames.

I did laugh at this part because it feels like Twitter already feels like a toddler in a snowsuit and anyone who has raised kids know putting a toddler in a snowsuit is miserable for them and so not wholesome. " Keep your criticism in check and together we can make Sims Twitter as wholesome as a toddler in a snowsuit." They will cry and wet and poop that snowsuit is the reality of it.

Yea one of the game changers, not sure of her name because I don't keep up with them much, left Twitter temporarily after exploding on simmers to stop all the toxic behavior. And everyone started roasting her for it so she had to take a break. Probably were others too. People may think it doesn't mean anything but overwhelming negativity affects your mental health and adds unneeded stress on your brain.
It's just madness and I had no idea the sims community was such an unwelcoming place.

There was even this one simmer who made a voice message cursing out another fellow simmer by name just for likening ts4. It was very offensive and unnecessary. I was done. ?

One other thing that blew my mind. Ts4 was in the category to be nominated for the labor of love reward. I saw simmers literally got together and said they want the gurus to feel embarrassed if ts3 wins the award instead. So they rallied together and got as many people as they could to nominate ts3 on steam.
Mind blowing...? and celebrated that ts4 didn't win.

Twitter is still very chill place compared to Youtube. :#

Most the time I’m seeing tweets about how good TS3 is compared to TS4, which gets old sometimes. It could just be based on who you follow on what you see.
But the Sims is a company, it’s expected imo. All they can do is fix it, give them what they want, or ignore it, and all of that will have an outcome of some sort.

Twitter be like that often. I'm glad I don't spend a lot of time on there.

"Babykittyjade;c-17778841" wrote:
One other thing that blew my mind. Ts4 was in the category to be nominated for the labor of love reward. I saw simmers literally got together and said they want the gurus to feel embarrassed if ts3 wins the award instead. So they rallied together and got as many people as they could to nominate ts3 on steam.
Mind blowing...? and celebrated that ts4 didn't win.

I don't wondering about that, I just looked at the (for me annoying) 'fix the skin tone' - spam on twitter, which had literally buried everything what had to do with the sims. That the gurus now use their official accounts for only promotion could be the consequence of such general toxic behaviour of the twitter community at all.

The simsforum I find very friendly compared to other forums I know, even with the sometimes hard and very direct critics, it's still more civilized and moderated than other social media channels.

Honestly, I was very pleasantly surprised when I saw the devs blog about the next stuffpack here in the forum, I didn't expected to see such threads ever again.

I see both positive and negative comments on twitter... but there are also a lot of comments about what people want for the sims4 and why the sims3 is better... and that is becoming pretty repetitive after all these years... I guess that's to be expected when you keep a game going for so long, but still...

There are also a lot of people who seems to take this thing way too...personal. It's just a game. But people post all sorts of personal pictures, go off on rants or share things that I would not share on twitter...

People are also either way too positive, or too negative as well. People lost their minds over Bonehilda for example and then they found out that she doesn't have a coffin and they go super negative.

I like that the forums are moderated and the people here make good posts about their opinions, and it's not just a short super positive or super negative message in all caps.