User blog comment:ChromastoneandTabby/Stuff I Want to Get Off My Chest/@comment-2251739-20161225210242

I agree with pretty much everything you said. The Jojokes thing kinda sucks, since it's all in good fun, but I realize how annoying it can be.

When it comes to everything else, I guess all I can say is sorry? I have some kind of idiotic mental block about pretty much all of that (except the "too popular" thing, that's not really a thing in my mind but if you wanted my thoughts I'd have to think about it a bit more to put it in words).

To elaborate: I'd feel awkward just writing some little comment with my thoughts on an episode of whatever, but I'd happily give an analysis of the whole thing, formally. Maybe we should have a "what does BTFF really think of X?" event or something. I dunno. If we had something like that weekly or so I probably would get my thoughts out there a lot better than I do now, and maybe even read more fics.

In chats I'm more comfortable with a shitposty conversation style. I'm fine with talking about things legitimately rather than aimless memes, but I suppose I feel like chats are just a hangout and the real discussions are better had on threads and comment sections. A "real" discussion isn't really possible on a chat anyway - it's too fast and people don't have much time to stop and come up with anything terribly thoughtful. Unless everyone there is actively trying to do so, which is rare.

As much as I'd like to say something thoughtful about the rest (namely the work/respect stuff) all I really have to say is I agree.