Compacted on 1/28/24 to help with summarization.
Updated on 4/15/24 with newer standards and removed profanity and most all capped words.
Updated on 7/14/24 with more summerized thoughts and how it added on top to the reasons my hiatus happened.
Oh boy, how do I start this...
Fictional Googology (FG) has been here for almost 3 years at this point, but it's community is getting so bad that it very well could die well before 2026.
The community here is so bad that it also is impacting Standard Googology (which I will refer to as just googology) and Quantum Googology.
So let's just dive into what is making it one of the worst experiences ever:
[I WOULD NOT ENCOURAGE HARASSING ANYONE MENTIONED IN THIS PAGE]
1. The community itself
The majority of the community is filled with countless users who...
A) are underaged and have zero experience in the real world
B) they spam nonstop weird stuff, especially the no context timestamp comments that can't be blocked
C) pretend to be very helpful when they're only ruining the experience more
D) making fun of people and then excuse them of doing something they were manipulated into saying with no consent
E) mispelling way too frequently
F) moderators that don't stop serious situations
G) don't accuately display info about situations on time
H) most moderators that don't know how to properly moderate the community
Like seriously? Is this seriously what I want to deal with every day? I get more aggressive everytime this happens, and I don't like being like that! I like being with people that are helpful and kind, but this? Throw that out of the window!
2. The content
2.1. The entries
It used to be okay when it was first made, but after Endless (or even Never in this matter) it started to not make any sense. Like why do ordinal levels need to be broken for more larger numbers? And why do they just sound so unoriginal to begin with?
It gets even worse after The Real Final Point (??? [3]). Now sure, there can be original numbers beyond this point, but couldn't we just put those in a more meaningful scale?
2.2. Cycles
I don't find these very meaningful in numbers anymore. There's like a million other ways to represent how many of these there are in a notation, but breaking just does not work here. Take illions for example, we didn't break them, but we keep expanding on top of it, even if it doesn't get any bigger. They can even cause epileptic seizures more than a simple counter can, since they cover the whole screen. Also, most of the time it speeds up the music, which can even damage peoples' eardrums.
There's also Absolute Everything Cycles (AE cycles) which is even worse. The same thing can be said here, except now it takes epilepsy and loud volume to a whole new level. Like seriously, people with epilepsy problems aren't even going to handle watching this. It gets worse when nowadays it is very, and I mean, VERY frequent and repetitive. It doesn't help when a large portion is reserved with this stuff, which ruins the point of being there in the first place.
Like seriously, if I'm being honest, sound/music and effects isn't meant to be used like this. Music is meant to be enjoyable, and effects is meant to bring more joy to a video, but this? Nah, I can't handle even a second of this nonsense content anymore.
2.3. Loops
The scale is confusing here. I no longer understand the point in these when they're confusing to compare to normal values. The speed these go depend on how far away you are from zero, and it could cause epileptic seizures depending on how fast it goes. Googology doesn't do any of that, but FG does.
2.4. The live chat
Almost all of the videos are premiered, and thus ties to everything I've said in point #1. A lot of the time, the live chat goes off-topic about annoying things unrelated to what is happening in the actual premiere. The things that happen are...
A) people screaming in the chat trying to find bunkers or shields to protect themselves from something that doesn't even affect them
B) people trying to start bad dramas that ruins the experience
C) moderators pretending to be cool but then throw out nuclears in the chat
D) people saying random things that are either copied from the premiere or unrelated to the premiere
Heck, even streams that have hundreds of thousands of viewers from creators with millions of subscribers, isn't even close to being this bad. At least there, moderators are on top of keeping the chat room clean unlike here.
3. Creating said content
Now, if it isn't something you'd do that common, then this may not sound like a big deal, but making this a full on career is almost impossible at this rate. The amount of editing needed to do this takes an enternity to do. The amount of files you need and the storage needed to do this is just unbearable to handle. Not to mention underaged kids being very impatient with your pacing. Taking your time is absolutely a necessity here, which can bore your audience. Now sure, people in other subjects take a long time to make masterpieces, and people don't get mad over how long it took to make it. But this is a community with mostly underaged kids, so who's waiting that long? NO ONE. And that's problematic.
Also, there's a massive problem with there being unfair rules here. Every number seems to ALWAYS have to be comparable to other paths, and that's problematic. Not being able to creatively make a new path without it immediately placed in ONE line can make people upset. This also ties to controversy arguing about what's correct and what isn't, as stated in several documentaries including this one: MetroChi's video. Now, even with this said, I don't think the solution should be to compound every scale into one, as I've stated before, because...
A) Some people don't like this happening to their scale, but even if this isn't the case...
B) There's really weird scales or otherwise scales that wouldn't make sense to put in one mixed path
Like for example, my MQG path is meant to be it's own thing, with a bitzy sized counting system and functions that would not work together with every single MQG path that doesn't use this, yet JoshuaDR.0809 comments on part 1 of my series:
"Dec-Dupower of Zero!!
Equivalent to A[A[0]]."
Like bro, I already told you my path isn't meant to be compared to other MQG paths, yet you did it anyway!
I will not accept these kinds of comments for future parts since you just violated the one thing I said to you about. You even said you understood what I said to you, but you did it anyway. I'm also ignoring your "totally legit" MQG rules since this is my path and you got no control over it. Get over it.
Also, I'm looking at you FG Wiki, don't think I'm forgetting your unforgivable behavior there.
4. Why FGers quit
This community has already lost Stella and me, and I doubt more are going to stay because of how bad it had gotten.
The amount of BS I've already mentioned, plus the fact that there's no point in continuing the infinite number line, is exactly why these people are quitting. I was once going to only quit FG content, but then the situation on June 30 happened, and that caused me to reconsider doing these kinds of videos. There's just no point in making more of these videos when the community is literally dying. Now, am I still doing some googology? Sure, but my interests can change at anytime, so I may lose interest in googology in general, but for now that's where I'm at.
Now, I'm still monitoring the comments even though I'm not making googology content on YouTube.
I will not update my thoughts on Quantum Googology and Negativology simply because most of what I said here apply there too. Also, because I'm on hiatus, which might last indefinitely depending on how poorly the community is when I'm gone, I also removed the "How long will I stay in googology?" page.
