AI and background images

I left because the community is so much more harmful now than it was when I joined. I was prevented from even joining staff for reasons I will not say, but they hurt so much, it really told me how little people thought of me. When I would search my name, back in 2021 and 2022, it was not really to compliment me. It was to talk about me and and there was a comment there that hurt me so much because I looked up to that person. However, I would still choose the community from years ago than the community now. It is nothing but arguing and hurt. Nothing but people disagreeing and trying to be louder than the other voices.

When I asked to shut down the thread it was **not** to silence the voices, but to stop it from getting so much worse mentally on someone. The way that the whole discussion has been going has been mentally taxing on me. I felt unwelcome. Unloved. Undesired. I felt like a reject. I felt like I didn't belong.

But let's be real, the only time I ever felt like I belonged on hio was when I finally found the group of people I actually enjoyed talking to, and it wasn't a community. I hated talking to the people within the community. They were not nice. They were not kind. They said what was on their mind even if it would hurt you. But hey, there are people that put on facades then talk about you behind your back.

They may see the community differently, but that's probably because they're in the loud part of the community, the community that ostracizes people and talks bad about them in dms or behind "staff walls". To make a community better, we need to stop arguing.

I'm no longer part of the community, but I have seen the parts with my name on it. [to the community] Please stop being mean to people. Please stop criticizing everything just because you're so unhappy with something. It feels like we were talking about politics in the server and on the site, when that's against our rules, and we weren't really. We were talking about AI usage as the wallpaper.

You [the people in the thread] disagree? Cool. But regurgitating the same points over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over is not cool. It's annoying. We are already aware of the points you make. Having to repeat it ten times does not help, and honestly, when I saw it happening, I knew it was gonna happen and I knew it was going to spiral out of control.

I joined hio leaving World of Potter and its sites because they banned me. I loved the backgrounds. I loved the theming. I hated world of potter's texture backgrounds. It was so dull in comparison to the awesomeness hio was. Hio was advanced in comparison, and world of potter? It felt like you were getting introduced to writing- baby levels. I'm not criticizing world of potter and its sites because they banned me, but because hio's very backgrounds were what captured me and made me want to join. HexRPG. It's boring. It looks so cluttered to me. Other hp sites, there are so many buttons and its so hard to find anything.

Hio was so much easier, yet felt like it was for college students and advanced people because of how good it was.

I am not a writer. On every site that I have ever created, I have actively opposed strict word counts. I hated them on hio, so if we were to consider the things I did not like about hio starting off and how hard it was to actually stick around and write 200+ words in on a site that feels like they minimodded you so freaking much at times, and pair that with a lack of cool looking backgrounds? I'm sorry, I would've left the community so long ago. I was already being fussed at by staff my first year of being onsite. I was caught multiaccounting and I confessed to it.

I am an honest person, I try not to lie because I hate lying to people. That said, getting back to the point, when I didn't have things to hold onto, things that I loved, I wouldn't want to be here. When I saw what was said about me in 2024, I was so enraged, I saw red throughout the duration of 2025.

This community, you may claim to be nice people nowadays, but the community that minimodded so much and had some weird people in the awnings were much more nicer than this community is nowadays. This is me being blunt; what you guys are calling a community nowadays, is like being in a herd of likeminded haters that want nothing but THEIR way. Because it's their way, or they're going to pitch a fit and complain and throw a tantrum.

I'm sorry that it was blunt, I'm sorry if it offends people. But it's the truth, when you feel like you've been tossed into a trashcan and thrown into a waste puddle so much and so often away from the computer screen and on the computer screen in a fictional world, then maybe we can finally see eye to eye, so long as you aren't seeking vengeance.

So please, work on being a better community first.

Tldr; Be more welcoming. More accepting. This isn't a community. This is a thread that is unwelcoming to those who look and see how the "community" is.

I didn't only leave because of the ai thread, it is what threw me off the edge, the edge that I felt pushed to for many years of this on and off of the computer screen. My reasons for leaving are all specified in my deactivation post. It is a combination of the community and the staff and how I felt treated throughout the years. And I have been on hio for a quarter of my life. That's a lot!