253: abandon me harder daddy

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ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

that's for me as well. i scroll past characters i've done months long psls/verses with on memes with and we've played out a lot of stuff, but i'm feeling burnt out on that particular angle, or i'm not up for continuing on that line, or i'm not sure if they want to restart entirely. either way, it's not 'i hate you and don't want to play with you', it's 'i enjoyed what we have/had, but i'm not feeling that right now, maybe later'. i can easily see how it seems like snubbing when the same stuff happens meme after meme, but that's just a numbers issue. if i don't feel like playing with bob today, then that's ten memes i'm not playing in with them. along with the eight from yesterday, and the five from the day before, and the nine from the day before that. i might need/want a break for a month or a few weeks, and in memeland, that adds up to page after page after page of memes that no one's tagging.

it's why i take breaks from bakerstreet, tbh. i'll go mia for a month or two so i don't feel like i'm seeing the same faces and not tagging day after day. give me a month and i'll come back with a new idea.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

hi-5 i'm with you on taking breaks away from bakerstreet to 'reset.' i will say, this is almost the one unintended downside of the proliferation of info posts, because i'm now more likely to go for the same type of character who is a natural fit for mine, rather than trying people out blindly and letting the interaction surprise me. i find that ultimately when i end up in a bakerstreet rut like this, i need to either take 5 away from memes, or revisit some older characters (or steer toward new ones).

but yeah, back to your point: musedumpers are buzzkills for sure, but i don't think they're the core issue behind the bakerstreet stagnation.

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

they're just obvious targets. same with meme spammers. people can still play in all the memes they want. no one's stopping them. they just don't want to realize that with dwindling players, they're left with characters/players they don't really want to play with and they don't want to sound like entitled whiny brats by admitting that what they really want is a bunch of characters that fit their type and preferences, fuck everyone else. musedumpers don't take up the spots of the characters they want. meme spammers don't remove memes from everyone. people are just getting older and more tired of putting out effort and feeling like they don't get the rewards they feel they deserve.

that's what psls are for. memes are fishing spots. a lot of times, you don't always get nibbles or your bait isn't working. when you do get a nibble, most people i know nowadays are taking them to private museboxes/journals to play in peace there without being judged for whatever they play. memes are convenient places to play, but they aren't the only places, and i think a lot of people are just content with their steady psls in private and that's where a lot of people are now. they have their toys and they don't want to keep looking for new ones. it feels like some people are putting too much weight and expectation on meme play as their sole form of entertainment and getting mad about it not paying out.