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Umm....no.This is a question with a built-in answer. Flaming (as this non-flamer understands the term) is predicated on the utter destruction of a target in the most entertaining way possible. Put a bunch of such flamers in a small room and watch as they all begin to shoot at each other point blank in the chest and, inevitably, all you're left with is a lot of blood and corpses on the floor boards and, some time later, a survivor of the massacre pulling on a corncob pipe while rocking his bony ass in a chair on the porch, reminiscing about the now net-dead desperados, how their spurs and buckles shone in the lamplight just before the first trigger got pulled.
A "community" of flamers is a non-sensical concept. This is an ego-driven solo game. Ol' Swiftie over there has been chewing on the same corny cob pipe ever since he got gut shot at the Brawl Hall saloon over spilled whiskey and lost a big toe in the Great Stomping Groundz Stampede of Twenty-Nineteen.
There's a simple reason why message board flaming is dead, and it has nothing to do with anything other then one thing- talent.
It takes talent to keep throwing zingers up at a regular pace and staying entertaining. The greats are past tense on account of they couldn't keep up, found an avenue where they're talents can make them money, or burned out.
TDM is the GOAT. Remember those old school insult generators? He wrote the scripts on them. Everybody has ripped off TDM and many have done it without knowing they have or who he is. Read most of the generic flaming on twitter and 90% of it TDM wrote back in the early 2000's. TDM is the only poster ever who I stopped whatever I was doing to read his shit because it was something other worldly entertaining.
The mass ejection of talented writers, the propping up of second rate hacks, and the dependency of opinion over entertainment killed off these forums. And that will never come back only because whats left of this community is talentless.
It's been years, decades in some instances where gifted actors could come back....but they choose not to. And I don't blame them. There's a handful of members on either of these forums and nobody is worth reading outside of what? Three ppl? And big names from the past are going to come back for an audience of four or five?
Here's the truth- I made a forum and had Pickles, Bra1n, Nazi Admin, Cardy, and jiggy back and none of them posted but maybe once or twice. Nobody wants to be surrounded by idiots, incels, or complete wastes of fresh air.
Flaming didn't kill these forums. Talentless nobody's did.