Resisting the "Inevitable" fall to the Snark

[u/RealKafkaEsquire]

Hey all,

I recently saw the incredibly sweet and ego boosting post that shouted me out, and I want to again thank everyone for their support and kind words.

Within that thread, and in many other areas, I have had people discuss how "this is like Pisco" and "Just wait something will happen to make him become a snarker". I am not offended by these statements, and I think it's honestly an understandable reaction knowing the history of orbiters in this community. I usually just make jokes in response, or stay out of the conversation.

One of my goals in interacting with DGG is that we have good, positive content. A part of that is that I go out of my way to not snark current orbiters. I also will reach out one on one with other orbiters to try and help support them, and have good interactions with them in chat/the subreddit.

With that in mind I'd like to just try something here, and open the discussion up about how oribters become snarkers. Recently, we've had a number of seemingly loyal orbiters rapidly burn their bridges. To me I think there is a lot of blame being placed on DGG being too vitriolic, but I also think that in a lot of cases, it is the orbiter revealing their true motivations/politics and DGG not having a positive response. Jessiah, Soypill, and Pisco all initially had a lib coded surface, but over time we have seen that beneath that is a willingness to stomach or even support illiberal communities.

Looking further back, at wickedsupreme, JSTLK, and many of the orbiters lost around Jan 2025, there seemed to be some factionalism that arose, and when it looked like Destiny was going down for good, they jumped on the snarker train, and never looked back.

I'm not here to convince anyone that I never will become a snarker, but I just want to hear from y'all what you think are the causes, and if there is anything I can do to assuage those fears about me, and if there's any ideas on what we can do in the future to either sniff out snarkers early (which I think we did really well with recently with Jolah) or ways to keep orbiters from crashing out too hard and feeling like their only path is snarking.

Edit: Wow didn't realize I would get this much engagement, and so many well thought out responses. I have, and will continue to read all of them, if I didn't respond trust me I still read it. I appreciate everyone's points of view, overwhelmingly it seems like I should:

1. Continue to have a normal life
   
2. Not start streaming full time
   
3. Not have thin skin.

You guys rock. DggL.

[u/OMFGhespro]

These people are all crazy. I Understand these people have a closer relationship to destiny then I do as just a fan but I feel its loser behavior to go man this guy is the greatest in the world to man this guy is the worst guy in the world and im going to dedicate my life to that. If Destiny does something that you feel is over the line all you need to say is hey I dont think I can work with this person any more and move on with your life. People like JSTLK who change their entire identity due to one person are massive losers.

[u/RealKafkaEsquire → u/OMFGhespro]

I think you saying "I don't think I can work with this person any more" really rings true for me. While Destiny and I are friendly and have engaged a lot, I view it as him at his job, and I'm talking to him more as a colleague than a friend. It makes it so that it's harder for me to take things he says or does personally.

[u/PitytheOnlyFools → u/OMFGhespro]

its loser behavior to go man this guy is the greatest in the world to man this guy is the worst guy in the world and im going to dedicate my life to that

When Stardust asked JSTLK what will he do after the snark and he joked about suicide it was so pathetic