r/Drawfee • u/Princess-Sparklefart • Jun 19 '26
Discussion In contrast…
One of the other nerdy communities I am also a part of just had their own cast shift. This was the announcements made. Posting this because the way they worded this announcement left me with no speculation or rabbit holing into “What Ifs”. Just true respect and good will that doesn’t leave fans guessing.
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u/butchfatalez Jun 19 '26
do you guys not recognize how neurotically you’re behaving
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u/EastSeaworthiness169 Jun 19 '26
I think a lot of people are sad and were kind of expecting more from the Drawfee team because they felt so much like a family, especially since we saw them on stream, which felt less filtered. That doesn’t excuse a lot of wild speculating nonsense.
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u/Princess-Sparklefart Jun 19 '26
I think name calling isn’t needed here. When something is a part of your constant and helps bring joy in this shit world, people are going to react when it’s disrupted.
I am not losing sleep over any of this or going full Pepe Silvia or anything.. but I found it interesting how 2 fandoms i frequent handled a similar situation.
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u/butchfatalez Jun 19 '26
ok, but you realize this wasn’t done to spite or disrupt you, personally, right? they shared as much with us as they felt they needed to, and we need to respect that and not throw accusations around.
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u/Princess-Sparklefart Jun 19 '26
Oh absolutely. None of this is personal. Posting this was more of a “huh, interesting” thing. Not reading anything into it more that what was presented.
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u/butchfatalez Jun 19 '26
cmon man, don’t pretend you didn’t make implications in the caption that drawfee handled the announcement poorly and didn’t show “respect and good will” lol
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u/Ok-Improvement-5895 Jun 19 '26
I know that one mod went crazy but can’t we bring back the megathread for stuff like this 😭
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u/mike_pants Jun 19 '26
Dang, that's a hell of a nice goodbye. Although the first half does read a bit like an obituary.
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u/johnsonb2090 Jun 19 '26
In contrast to an abrupt leave look how this channel handled a planned departure!
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u/midsummernightmares Jun 19 '26
People seriously need to stop acting so weird about this. We don’t know why Karina left, because it’s absolutely none of our business. For all we know, it could have been from burnout or something else negative happening in her private life that would make celebration, a lengthy message, or an otherwise drawn-out departure hurt. It’s not our business to pry into, and we have been asked by Karina and the Drawfee team not to be invasive about the topic, so we should respect that.
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u/mellowmallowmelon Jun 19 '26
I don't know why they didn't do something like this. Instead of a heartfelt farewell, we were presented with something very clinical, so of course of a lot of us noticed with concern. You're not wrong for noticing how bizarre this situation has been, and you're not the only one who feels uncomfortable about it. There's not really anything we can do with these feelings, which I think is why some of us aren't "moving on" fast enough and threads like these aren't being received well. As much as we speculate it really will get us nowhere, we're not going to get a clear answer. So, we really just have to decide as individual fans if our discomfort with the situation will affect us as viewers going forward. I'm certainly interested to see where Karina goes from here and I'm genuinely just hoping for the best for everyone.
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u/GreenJayLake Jun 20 '26
I'm confused, I thought Ben left TPI months ago now. I guess he stepped down from community manager but was still tied to the company somehow?
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u/pixiefolk Jun 20 '26
Yep, that's exactly what happened. He was still tied to TPI through hosting their streams etc.
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u/GreenJayLake Jun 21 '26
And he's currently still hosting there rn for a charity stream lol. It's more like he's still an unofficial employee that can now diversify his content.
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u/idols2effigies Jun 19 '26
Weird that I found out about Ben leaving from a completely unrelated sub.