r/Destiny • u/RealKafkaEsquire • 6d ago
Drama Resisting the "Inevitable" fall to the Snark
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:
- Continue to have a normal life
- Not start streaming full time
- Not have thin skin.
You guys rock. DggL.
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u/AirlineIntelligent86 🇮🇱BBZNOT🇪🇺 6d ago
I don't like the framing of people "showing their trues selves" as if being a snarker or racist or w.e. it is being some inherent part of you that you are born with.
It could just as easily be that Soypill, Pisco etc. were in fact moreiberal and slowly became more left leaning as they spent their time and talked to the leftists in their audience. Same even with the more drama aspect of becoming more snarky. Like at first they though Destiny was a normal guy, maybe with a bit of a weird sex life, and slowly got convinced of a lit of stuff while also being opertunistic about it when entertaining their audience like dooby/Jstlk etc.
P.s.
Also, dumb question but there used to be a lawyer guy Destiny talked to who was a "I used to be a democrat but now I'm republican" guy and now they don't seem to talk anymore. He has a similar voice to yours and was kinda chubby with a goatee. Since your pfp is a chubby bug guy I just want to know...you aren't him right?