They know Twink wasn't a term of endearment right?

[Zhiyuwanju-moon-guard]

I wonder if this that Don DH person

[Artomiss-tichondrius]

@Anacharsis-emerald-dream

You Old Twinks are still FABULOUS DAHLING.

I’m actually a woman, but this made me

[Toddorbert-thrall]

@Paulshack-nerzhul

It is (or was idk now) an incorrect assumption for the type of majority of people who played WoW.

not sure what you are attempting to state here but it was a term used for fully geared pvp players usually lv 19. and possibly had exp turned off.

not even close for majority of players

[Anacharsis-emerald-dream]

@Artomiss-tichondrius

@Anacharsis-emerald-dream

You Old Twinks are still FABULOUS DAHLING.

I’m actually a woman, but this made me

Puuurfect.

[Elk-thaurissan]

May I look after you OP?

I feel like you went on a journey with your post and lost your way.

First half makes sense. But it feels like you went on a tangent and just ran with it.

[Anacharsis-emerald-dream]

@Artomiss-tichondrius

@Anacharsis-emerald-dream

You Old Twinks are still FABULOUS DAHLING.

I’m actually a woman, but this made me

Some of the best PvPers I ever partnered with were women.
Across multiple games.
When their kids started playing I would say:
“UR Mom was better at PvP than you are sunshine,
and that was with you on her lap squealing for the keyboard.”
Good times.

[Dojacàt-moon-guard]

@Paulshack-nerzhul

I just recently started playing again and making my playthrough of shadowlands and dragonflight and I’m noticing a very obvious trend, and it got me thinking.

Maybe they didn’t know?

Which sure I could see a new hire who wasn’t around for that time,
browsing through the posts,
getting REAL confused why bunch of the community was using the initial insult,
thrown around out of spite when you’d get killed in a battleground,
was instead being used as a substitute for saying low leveled meta,
(most of that was teenagers not knowing what it meant but it started with ignorant name calling)
Totally get that, makes sense to me how someone would get that confused.

However,
It is (or was idk now) an incorrect assumption for the type of majority of people who played WoW.

Worst case alternate scenario,
blizzard could have fed a shiny new AI toy (that blew up 3ish years ago) a bunch of forum posts and tried to use that as justifying demographic evidence thinking they’d be ahead of the curve and know whos playing their game. Except AI doesn’t know lingo or sarcasm.
Which to me also checks out.

So why would they use it?
They were grasping at straws for designs before and kept using the same market research at the same time as other games like destiny 2.

Seriously, check out the similarities when activision-blizzard held onto destiny 2 for that short time:

i was gonna link pictures use your imagination

• the sha and the taken
• suramar and the dreaming city
• the zandalari and the skorn

I’m sure there’s more and better examples both games and film at that time period around legion/bfa, but the point is they all share unified color pallets/major identifying elements which is real hard to nail for creating a unique identity that appeals to several groups of a mass audience.

Which is why only people should do it for their own games if they weren’t before.

Not meant as hate or fact for anything previously mentioned,
sharing designs isn’t anything new and neither is including new people, I’m just trying to figure out how they came to the decision of marketing 4 years worth of expansion around 5% of earths self reported population as if they were all exclusively playing WoW.

Surely someone had to have said something about it

If twink is a negative word then explain this

"Twinks and Bears" scene from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

[Snowpine-ghostlands]

Can

can someone translate?

[Aqure-westfall]

my question as well

[Abricot-grizzly-hills]

Extremely Online Person Eats Own Tail

[Lugobrious-korgath]

chat gpt makes another star post

[Gah-eonar]

Aye, I saw the word twink in the title, thinking its my time to shine.
<—Vanillia twink with pvp title.

Then i got lost in the OP and am now confused. I guess wrong twink =(

[Toskosa-dentarg (Toskosa)]

Twinking is still a thing, the population is just really small an mostly focused around pve/wargames.

If anyone is interested in low level content I would suggest xpoff . com

[Hèrne-moon-guard]

I hope, so, I wanna see him go full on Manduin.

[Sumwun-tichondrius]

Is this thread a necro?

It feels like this should be a necro.

[Zhiyuwanju-moon-guard]

Any thread can be a necro

[Lightwood-nagrand (Lightwood)]

It should have died at inception. The OP sounds high AF. I’m sure they make sense to themselves but none of his statements seem to connect with anything intelligible to anyone else in this thread, myself included.

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

@Paulshack-nerzhul

Anything lengthy or well written isnt immediately chatgpt,

You seem wholly unfamiliar with this concept. ‘Well-written’, I mean.

[Hèrne-moon-guard]

OP, I am madness and discord incarnate, and even I am just over here staring like you just spoke wookie or somethin…

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

@Coromu-bleeding-hollow

So then why start off with the whole twink crap as a red herring to talk about something entirely different of comparing wow to destiny 2 which also makes no sense at all to people who dont or have never played that game…

To be fair, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to people who have played both games.