It is imperative for the Melee Community to leave Twitter. I don’t care if you have a couple thousand followers or what, it’s time to delete your account or log off.
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A lot of fighting game communities are weirdly reliant on Twitter. I noticed that the SF6 SuperCombo wiki has a link to Twitter hashtags for each character that are completely inaccessible unless you have an account. All those clips are locked to that website.
It’s painfully clear that the environment there is open to the worst sorts, and even if a sponsor might want you on there, let’s be real - is it worth wading into the muck?
biggest barrier is that, unfortunately, there are players for whom responding on discord is apparently very difficult, Twitter as a DM delivery system still has a lot of value for producers/TOs
we are trying to solve this part of the problem but it’s like pulling teeth
like it’s a diff between it taking 5 mins to find a player who doesn’t know their match is on stream, or who we’re trying to pay, and 20-30 mins, which during events is a big deal. For fourside it’s the diff between getting a reply in 1 day vs 1 week. AHHHH!!!
some of them have literal contractual obligations to be on Twitter and are barely on social media otherwise, still the #1 way to reach players is to message them while they’re streaming
cross-posting is probably the best we can hope for short run from contracted players
Pretty funny that the community is majority liberal grass roots but our main form of communication involves swimming through right-wing shit. Migration is hard tho
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we are trying to solve this part of the problem but it’s like pulling teeth
I wish I could have a dm with every attendee or these for every pool
We have to make the shift actively and we need to pull our major community figures alongside us.
cross-posting is probably the best we can hope for short run from contracted players
twitter is for the dogs now