I grew up playing video games. I have nothing against them. I took a ten year break from MMO's and finally decided to play one again since this pandemic has really killed the ability to socialize regularly.

At first, I thought this whole thing was a joke. That no one seriously does this, but after a few weeks and an invite to partake in this bullshit, OOOOH BOY I have seem some shit I need eye bleach for.

Turns out that at least in certain MMO's, there's a subsection of the community that partakes in auctions, where a person gets up on a virtual stage and offers some kind of service. Some people attend these for things like sharing artwork and whatnot, but then ofc, there's an erotica side of this too.

I spent the last few weeks naively thinking that everyone was just joking around, no one could seriously be this absurd - but no. There are actual adult people - like people in their 30s and 40s - out there who are addicted to installing mods for their characters to make them naked, then installing programs to have their characters pose sexually with others, and then writing really detailed erotica in real time with another person, detailing everything their character would do to the other.

10 years ago, this was a fucking meme. Now it's a goddamn "acceptable" and "normal" thing for a person to do, and there's entire sub-communities dedicated to enabling this, y'all. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

I wrote to someone I was making friends with on this game how uncomfortable that made me once I realized it was not a meme, and how I thought he might be doing that with someone who could be a teenage girl or a man with a weird perversion, and him and his enablist harem, some of which are definitely women, went off so badly that I changed data centers. The addiction.. The pornsickness... The anger at me calling it out for what it was and their denial about how "it's not real life so it's fine" and "how dare you attack my friend"... It was scary, y'all.

So in short, humanity has hit a new low for me, and I just wanted to give you guys a tip that this is now a thing that we gotta look out for. Real time virtual porn about their video game characters getting it on with each other.