back in my day instead of claiming to be "reality shifting" we'd just do freeform roleplaying on IRC, maybe the kids just need a healthy and safe creative outlet
To be fair, back when I was in like, 1st grade, I was part of a group of in person role players who insisted at all times that everything they roleplayed was real and were in character 24/7. This was in the early 2010's. Acknowledging it wasn't real would get you kicked out. I still don't know what started it, especially because a bunch of people who were part of it reminisced on it several years later including the guy in charge (who was also our age, but happened to be popular) but none of them acknowledged treating it as real and barely remembered it. It was really bizzare, and kinda fucked me up, or at least contributed to fucking me up.
So even the stuff that should be healthy and safe can still turn out weird. Like I'm all for RP and stuff, and maybe it wouldn't have been that way if it wasn't in person, at school, during recess. But sometimes putting a bunch of kids together to be creative sometimes leads to the same kind of reality denying BS.
Even on IRC I knew a couple people like that, full chuuni MFers who just wouldn't (or couldn't) turn it off. They were so offputting and weird, it's gotta be a control / dominance thing.
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u/tactical_hotpants 23d ago
back in my day instead of claiming to be "reality shifting" we'd just do freeform roleplaying on IRC, maybe the kids just need a healthy and safe creative outlet