How do you feel about the Ninja Turtles reddit?

[CyberCubed]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TMNT/

Since this forum is on life support it's obvious most TMNT discussion has migrated to reddit and to a lesser extent twitter and tumblr.

Since I feel the compulsive need to spread my influence throughout the internet, I've been lurking there. Most discussion is about the toys or fanart, but there's occasional threads about the cartoons and comics.

[superstaff]

I...don't like it much. It tends to feel like an echo chamber with a bias towards the 80s cartoon and Rise of TMNT, with some IDW comics thrown it. I don't mind discussions on those, however, dissenting opinions get downvoted and ridiculed. Not a very good forum for legit discussion.

[Leo656]

Anyone who uses Reddit in general should be dipped in egg batter and fed to the fire ants.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Anyone who uses Reddit in general should be dipped in egg batter and fed to the fire ants.

Basically this. Reddit is the type of place where degenerates like Plastroncafe will hangout, especially when they can't handle the difference of opinion here.

[sdp]

It's mostly casuals but there is more TMNT discussion there than here. Discussion here is pretty much dead besides the political circle jerks and I doubt the forum will ever recover.

[IndigoErth]

Meh, I lurk it some, occasionally comment, but much of it is dull and what there is occasionally of interest is nothing you can't find here. Mostly I'm surprised how clueless some people on it are at times.

I'll still always prefer a forum and actual conversation.

[Powder]

I have no use for it. Bunch of memes you've seen 100 times already, people sharing their boring buys, vitriol for any content that isn't nostalgia-driven, false trivia. Boooo.

[CyberCubed]

Yeah, reddit and twitter are basically the modern fandoms these days. As well as tumblr for images/fanarts.

This is an old archaic forum from 1999 that only 30+ year olds visit. I need to hang out with new cool young kids of today.

[Leo656]

If you'd feel more comfortable as the King of Sh*t Mountain and lead the rest of the idiots who chatterbox on Reddit and Facebook, by all means be our guest. No one is stopping you.

[IndigoErth]

No one tell him he's too old to be with the "new cool young kids." lol

But those are the kids who look less cool and more like clueless children the older you get.


edit: Can't really say I have any interest in interacting with most from that age group of fans. Those who actually have interest in being here and having actual conversations are fine, but far too many out there in a generation whose fandom seems to be less about the thing they are supposedly a fan off and more about how they can get attention for it. Too many times I've seen postings somewhere online where some kid is mad that their art -- often just an OC -- is not getting enough attention or even threatening to leave the fandom over it, as if a fandom is somehow a special club or ever needed them in it. Good grief. Kids these days.

[Leo656]

We're definitely living in the Narcissist Generation. The Internet and social media are almost entirely to blame for that.

[CyberCubed]

I'm not going to be left behind in the digital age with a dying forum. It's like when our parents were clinging to record players, cassette tapes and VHS while we were embracing CD's, DVD's, and HD TV.

My grandparents didn't even know what a computer was and they never owned a cell phone. Well guess what happened, my parents embraced the future and our generation grew up with it. "Back in my day" can only go so far.

10+ years from now most forums will be dead. And the new younger members of the fandom don't come here anymore.

[IndigoErth]

When online communication dumbs down to the point that people are only posting five word comments (that no one actually reads) because it's the "new modern thing" to be embraced, guess what... fandom will be pretty much dead, too. You sure you want to go that way?

Hard to sustain a fandom if the "fans" have little care to discuss anything and mostly stare at 5 second cat videos while waiting to get their next "like" just for posting "I lk trtls."


A lot of the younger ones probably found other interests and wandered off. Esp being in a bit of a dry spell. No one is born to be a diehard fan of everything they ever liked at one time. The kids who remain interested or come back to it and want to know (and discuss) more later may well show up at a later point.

[Toad64]

Has anyone tried doing a Technodrome Discord server?

[Andrew NDB]

Only apathy.

[CyberCubed]

When online communication dumbs down to the point that people are only posting five word comments (that no one actually reads) because it's the "new modern thing" to be embraced, guess what... fandom will be pretty much dead, too. You sure you want to go that way?
and want to know (and discuss) more later may well show up at a later point.

If you're referring to twitter, there's fandoms of all kind there for videogames, cartoon, anime. People post more than one tweet, screenshots, fanart, etc.

I thought twitter was crap for awhile then I started browsing it and saw how people had the same discussion as forums. I block all political stuff on twitter so I only browse it for fandom stuff.

[Sumac]

Reddit is **** and clucky to use.
Most of its subreddits are echo chambers, which fly under watchful eyes of SJWs.
Not a place, where I want to be.

[Roseangelo]

I only browse Reddit to waste some time, but I never visit the TMNT forum.

[80gmrp]

I...don't like it much. It tends to feel like an echo chamber with a bias towards the 80s cartoon and Rise of TMNT, with some IDW comics thrown it. I don't mind discussions on those, however, dissenting opinions get downvoted and ridiculed. Not a very good forum for legit discussion.

Yeah, I tried Reddit in the past for music related matters, only to grow a similar opinion as you about the site as a whole: it’s nothing more than a popularity contest community where if you don’t conform, you’re downvoted at the very least.

[sdp]

Has anyone tried doing a Technodrome Discord server?

there is one, a small but good community of tmnt fans, here is the link if you want to join.
https://discord.gg/z8v2HGjg

[Leo656]

Ah, yeah, that place where people talk mad sh*t about me like I'm not gonna find out about it. :lol: Sounds like fun! :trazz:

[The-Shredder]

From what I've seen, it's not that interesting. A lot of it is fan art and toy hauls. I feel the same way with most TMNT fan pages on social media. There aren't a lot of great TMNT fan YouTube channels either, but The Old Turtle Den is pretty good. This place is the closest thing to an official TMNT site for me, so I come here for all the news and I trust that people here know what they're talking about.

[Metalwolf]

It's kind of boring. Mostly 80s stuff with just a smattering of other things dropped in. Maybe that's where some of the posters on here went to? I remember there was a quite a bit of 80s circlejerking here when the 2k12 show was running, there were people itching for tons of Fred Wolf Turtles cameos and references to be dropped in, Bebop and Rocksteady even supplanted the Shredder's original two henchmen!

[CyberCubed]

People keep saying the reddit is original series oriented, but aside from the toys (which are based on the 80's show but come out recently), I see plenty of discussion on the 4kids cartoon, Nick cartoon, comics and movies there. Did you guys even click the link? Scroll through the threads on both the "new" and "hot" section and you'll see different discussions.

Also I'm looking at this dead/barren forum from 1999 filled with 30-40 year old middle age people, and almost all the TMNT sections are dead besides a few bait threads and the monthly threads about the IDW comics and that's it. This place has become a sad relic of the ancient past with a bunch of washed-up middle age has-beens halfway to the old age home. Get off my lawn!

[Leo656]

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[TMNTFanatic4Life]

I admit I post in the Funko section as a collector myself...it’s a pretty good lot of people there.

That said...the Wrestling section is a bunch of suck ups to get upvotes....pretty bad.

[Sumac]

Upvoting anywhere, be it forum or a site, is trash and leads only to trouble and toxicity.

[IndigoErth]

Cubed just gettin' rude now. Hmph.

Aye, but it do prob just be project'n and that ol' fear of agein'. (And no idea why I turned into a pirate.)


I mean, what do you expect to be discussed if the TMNT is in a bit of a dry spell in some media, other than the same old things over and over.

[CyberCubed]

The problem is everyone here is so old there's nothing to discuss. A bunch of 30-40+ year olds aren't going to generate new discussion. And there's barely any new members who come here because as I said the younger fans are on twitter, reddit, tumblr, etc.

Granted the two nostril movies and Rise of the TMNT bombing probably didn't help matters, but even then there's not much to discuss besides monthly threads of IDW TMNT.

Fandoms need fresh blood to survive. New blood. We're becoming like what the original Star Wars fans were by the time the prequels came out. "Old fogey's."

[sdp]

most members here weren't even kids when the prequels came out, they were already adults :o They were already adults when Pokemon first came out and pokemon is flippin' ancient.

[IndigoErth]

The problem is everyone here is so old there's nothing to discuss.
Even if a bunch of 12-year-old newbies showed up, most of it would still be the same old discussions all over again as they ask questions that are old news to most.

Not like "new blood" somehow magically brings new content and discussion we've never seen before. Would still be old topics and adults annoyed that kids refuse to Google anything anymore. Kids don't make new content... the "old fogies" with careers lucky enough to get their hands on the TMNT do.

[This_is_my_username]

It's a slow time for TMNT.I enjoy bits and pieces of discussion or art/nostalgia wherever I can get it these days. I don't mind being an old relic. It's fine. A lot of other forums of my fandoms have long since kicked the bucket.

Sometimes Reddit has pleasant surprises amidst the usual casual filler. It's nice that TMNT still revives in different forms over the years, even if they aren't all to my preference. I know what it's like to love a completely dead and buried fandom and somehow that's never been TMNT.

I'm an old lurky fan now. I don't care. If there is a good comic flashback or piece of fanart, I'm usually lurking nearby.

[Metalwolf]

Even if a bunch of 12-year-old newbies showed up, most of it would still be the same old discussions all over again as they ask questions that are old news to most.

Not like "new blood" somehow magically brings new content and discussion we've never seen before. Would still be old topics and adults annoyed that kids refuse to Google anything anymore. Kids don't make new content... the "old fogies" with careers lucky enough to get their hands on the TMNT do.Exactly. New content, new story lines, new movies, that's the stuff that makes people want to come. Several Transformers forums I belong to are not for want of members, but it's because new stuff comes out often enough to keep people interested.
Plus the other issue is that too many iterations of TMNT just want to rehash the same old comic book or Fred Wolf plotlines. There needs to be genuinely new stuff, not just another reiteration of stuff like City at War.

[newfan]

I'm also of the mind that a dry spell has made a difference here, if something comes along that enough people like it would be more active. At least for that time anyway.

Also, we go where we like. Keeping up with what's new doesn't mean we have to join everything. I do little in the places I am in so I don't feel the need to be everywhere not doing much. Anyway, to topic, so far I haven't bothered to explore Reddit.

[CyberCubed]

Look at this forum:

General TMNT Discussion: other than neatoman making a ton of random threads to subtly bash the original cartoon, there's not much new threads here.

Movie forum: Obviously not much to talk about, the CG film still hasn't been properly revealed yet and everyone hated on the Michael Bay movies for years. The classic films have been discussed to death

Nick 2012 forum: Obviously discussion has slowed since the show is over

Rise: Not much interest on this forum to begin with.

2k3 forum: Again the show has been over for more than a decade, discussion of it has slowed to a crawl besides people who never saw it before.

Comic forum: IDW has monthly threads for each new issue, but discussion has waned on the book. And Mirage/Archie discussion has also been done to death.

Toys: Pretty active, but it's just about people talking about where they bought stuff.

Videogame: Until the new game was announced there wasn't much to talk about.


The TMNT sections have been on life support here for years.

[Leo656]

The TMNT franchise has been on life support for years.

Went ahead and fixed that for ya.

Seriously, there just isn't anything of substance to talk about. And let's be honest with ourselves: Anything coming down the road that isn't toys and possibly video games is almost guaranteed to suck, based on precedent.

Has nothing to do with the age of the forum posters. It's that the wrong company bought the franchise and they in turn ran it into the ground. Viacom supposedly made back all the money they spent on the brand within the first couple of years, now it's no longer important. They strip-mined it for a fast buck and now it's just One More Toy Commercial to them. They own much more lucrative properties, so this brand's going nowhere.

TMNT sucks now, and it's never gonna be "cool" or even "Good" ever again. That's It, The End. Go yell at Viacom about it, it's their fault.

[sdp]

this dry spell is different from previous ones the drome has had. Yeah the movies and Rise failing didn't help things but we had survived stuff like that before, but not when social media was mainstream. the most casuals are on different facebook groups, and more hardcore fans are on twitter/reddit/discord and other communities. The constant factor of making any thread political was the final nail in the coffin.

I love forums but they feel so 2000's, they've never evolved and any newer software version is a bloated mess trying to be hip by adding features that doesn't really make it seem more modern. Hopefully there's a better alternative were fandoms go but it all seems to be going to discord nowadays for more hardcore discussion. Perhaps one day discord will add a way to make permanent discussions that are easy to search for and then there would be no need for forums anymore.

[IndigoErth]

Look at this forum:
If you dislike forums so much no one is forcing you to use them, right? Or maybe you just need a break from TMNT? Because no other space online is going to have anything new to talk about that we don't have.

Not like we don't all see it too (the points you outlined), but not much use in us having a fit over it. Yeah, I'm pretty damn bored right now, but I'd rather be bored with people whose user names I know than unknown people elsewhere whose opinion I couldn't care less about and only have the same bored or even less interesting things to say.

And I mean, even if you talked us all into following you off onto some other site that isn't a forum (at least not in the same sense while still largely serving the same function) we'd still be having the same discussions, or lack there of.

[CyberCubed]

I've been visiting this forum every day since 2003 and the last few years are the deadest I've ever seen this place.

[Leo656]

That's because I weeded out all of the idiots and rabble. You ought'a be kissing my feet for doing everyone a favor, not bemoaning the fact that there aren't more imbeciles with bad opinions stinking up the joint.

[Zulithe]

Dedicated forums are where the hardcore enthusiasts gravitate, as well as those that skew older. Pick any fandom or hobby, you will find forums for those subjects, most probably already operating for 10 or 20 years if not longer.

Reddit, Facebook groups, Instagram/Twitter/Tumblr attract their own audience, I find all of them useful in their own way and check in from time-to-time. It's good to branch out and see the kinds of things that don't make their way onto the forums. Afterall, we are a very small portion of the entire fanbase.

I pretty much stopped looking at tumblr, but Twitter/Instagram are great for finding fan art and stuff of TMNT. Facebook is great for collecting due to their Groups feature. Reddit is good for news. Etc.

We used to have usenet groups. Well, technically they are still there, but mostly abandoned outside of spam. It's been fun to experience the evolution of how people find ways to gather with others who like what they like.

I think The Drome needs to evolve in order to continue attracting new fans to the discussions here. A lot of forums have moved to nicer forum software like XenForo which has more features and looks/feels modern, which is something newer users expect. Things like that can go a long way towards growing a community.

[Prowler]

I have no use for it. Bunch of memes you've seen 100 times already, people sharing their boring buys, vitriol for any content that isn't nostalgia-driven, false trivia. Boooo.

You've basically summed up reddit as a whole lmao :lol:

Reddit's biggest problem is its upvoting and downvoting system. That leads to threads becoming circlejerks. The highest voted replies are usually lame jokes or memes and the most downvoted replies are usually people who dared to state an opinion that's different from the majority.

[CyberCubed]

I never downvote, or upvote either, just read posts. If you stick to reddits about TV shows or certain fandoms, there's plenty of good discussion.

[Prowler]

I never downvote, or upvote either, just read posts. If you stick to reddits about TV shows or certain fandoms, there's plenty of good discussion.

Yes, smaller subreddits are usually better. The larger a subreddit is, the worse the circle jerking is.

Reddit is best suited for specific things such as being a fan of a not so popular TV series or something.

[Refractive Reflections]

I've been visiting this forum every day since 2003 and the last few years are the deadest I've ever seen this place.

You know if you would place that same energy toward petitioning Viacom to do something constructive with their TMNT ownership, it would be a far more effective use of your time than just telling the rest of us how "dead" it is in here and with the franchise. lol

That's because I weeded out all of the idiots and rabble. You ought'a be kissing my feet for doing everyone a favor, not bemoaning the fact that there aren't more imbeciles with bad opinions stinking up the joint.

CyberCubed is just addicted to the drama. He loves to keep reiterating over and over about his opinion to the new users, to beyond ad nauseum limits. Remember how he couldn't get enough of saying the 2012 series was bound to have at least 7 seasons? Or how he chased away the 2012 production staff from these forums? Yeah...

I know CyberCubed has posted many times here, on the forums, on how he wants to instruct the new and younger fans how to "properly" enjoy the TMNT franchise. lol

[superstaff]

CyberCubed is just addicted to the drama. He loves to keep reiterating over and over about his opinion to the new users, to beyond ad nauseum limits. Remember how he couldn't get enough of saying the 2012 series was bound to have at least 7 seasons? Or how he chased away the 2012 production staff from these forums? Yeah...

I think 2012 could have and should have gotten 7 seasons. I think Nickelodeon/Viacom messed up, and jumped the gun with rebooting super quickly with ROTTMNT. I honestly think they just wanted a Teen Titans Go clone, and thought they'd profit off it since TTG was rating well and selling like hotcakes at the time.

As for him chasing away the 2012 production staff. I wasn't here at the time, but from what I heard, Ciro Nieli strikes me as someone who could not take any criticism well. I remember the rumors from 2014 being that he made Irma a Kraang to stick it to fans who wanted more female characters aside from Karai and April, which strikes me as very childish. Not sure of the validity to that claim, but that along with other accounts on the incident I've seen on here (plus stuff that happened within the show itself) gives me the impression that Nieli seemed like the type who, as I said, couldn't take criticism and liked trolling fans to piss them off.

[Diorm]

I don't see any problems with this forum... I visit once in a while to see if there's something new, read messages, say something If I feel like it, then leave and go on with my life. I'm mostly in the comics section.
Going on reddit just feels like a time-waster to me.
This forum is the closest thing to an official TMNT website to me.

I don't know if you people remember, but there's a pandemic? Everything is in slowmotion. It's not only the TMNT franchise.

[Leo656]

As for him chasing away the 2012 production staff. I wasn't here at the time, but from what I heard, Ciro Nieli strikes me as someone who could not take any criticism well. I remember the rumors from 2014 being that he made Irma a Kraang to stick it to fans who wanted more female characters aside from Karai and April, which strikes me as very childish. Not sure of the validity to that claim, but that along with other accounts on the incident I've seen on here (plus stuff that happened within the show itself) gives me the impression that Nieli seemed like the type who, as I said, couldn't take criticism and liked trolling fans to piss them off.

I've never encountered any TMNT staff from ANY medium who could handle any criticism well. Collectively they're some of the most thin-skinned, hyper-defensive people I've ever seen.

Merely from observing from a distance, the only one who seems to really have his sh*t together is Eastman, who just sorta shrugs everything off. Don't much love his general style and I've taken shots at him often for his general dishonesty and "I'll hype anything as long as the paycheck clears" behavior, but I have to say at least he doesn't get all huffy-puffy when people criticism his work. And why should he? He's rich either way. So good for him on that.

[Zog The Magnificent]

I've never encountered any TMNT staff from ANY medium who could handle any criticism well. Collectively they're some of the most thin-skinned, hyper-defensive people I've ever seen.

Merely from observing from a distance, the only one who seems to really have his sh*t together is Eastman, who just sorta shrugs everything off. Don't much love his general style and I've taken shots at him often for his general dishonesty and "I'll hype anything as long as the paycheck clears" behavior, but I have to say at least he doesn't get all huffy-puffy when people criticism his work. And why should he? He's rich either way. So good for him on that.

And also Dan Berger. Berger's always been a cool dude, and takes criticism in stride.

[Leo656]

Very possible. I've never encountered or engaged with that individual.

[Sage Ninja]

I don't use reddit