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251: back in my day wank meant something

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Okay? There's some cases where I've seen IC threads. Like I said the most IC ones tend to be from people who write their text prompts themselves instead of pulling from the site. But there's a large amount of OOC stuff.

I wouldn't call the people doing it shit roleplayers. I just think that by and large TFLN encourages OOC loose playing by design. It's meant to be fun, not accurate. Some people I know who can play their characters well and accurately play them not accurately on TFLN because that's just the kind of place it is.

It's like McDonalds.

there is nothing about a meme positing short, snappy, pre-written dialogue prompts that implies oocdom. you are supposed to choose tflns that suit your character (or better yet, to customize or write them). it's not that an ooc cesspool is 'just the kind of place' tfln is, it's that you're interacting with players who like to be self-indulgent with their rp now and then, and that's their venue of choice.

i'll spoil something for you: 95% of characters on the sexting meme wouldn't sext, and people with a mind to play it icly still manage. hell, many characters either wouldn't know how to text or wouldn't practise it generally as a habit, and yet players still do it icly. a meme isn't 'by and large' anything, rpers make or break it.

Oh, I don't play on TFLN. Tags tend to go quiet on Friday as many people do so I just read threads there for fun.

As someone who reads pretty a good portion of TFLN out of boredom on Friday nights I can say with some authority that IC isn't what most people there are going for.

Can it be done ICly? Sure! I see occasional IC threads. Is it more often OOC? Absolutely!

I don't mind that people are self indulgent as I've stated repeatedly. But I do think this level of offended response to pointing out how much of it is OOC is telling of what you might be doing on Fridays. To that end, I'll say you shouldn't be ashamed of playing OOC texting shit. But don't claim it's IC if it's not, and be willing to admit a lot of people are just having fun and ignoring canon.

bro, moving on from the high unlikelihood that you know all canons represented on tfln to judge accurately and 'with some authority' how ic/ooc most people are - the point you keep missing and that we keep making is that there is nothing inherent in the meme itself that makes people ic/ooc. if your canon or choice is mostly patroned be people who use the meme oocly, sure, that's one thing.

we're not offended that you're running into ooc rp on tfln, we're pointing out you keep not getting that a meme doesn't magically possess people into playing oocly.

the entire premise tfln makes it way easier for people to be ooc than not. idk why people are actually this pressed about that being true but i assume it’s bc you’re offended your tfln threads aren’t high art which bro…so what

no, we're just pointing out you kept equating the fact that people can choose to be self-indulgent with a premise and play out their sweet ooc fantasies with the very nature of the meme somehow compelling people to play oocly.

i am not everyone in this thread lol

but i think what makes a meme mostly ooc is when most shit played on it leans that way. tfln is mostly ooc.

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