Very Interesting VLOG, it does bring some interesting points to surface.
On what concerns my character specifically that you mention on your video, my opinion on the matter is that perhaps you overreact a bit on people's perception.
I, personally don't perceive that there is a massive dislike of Revan or the player behind it otherwise I wouldn't be making events with over 200 players attendance like the last gladiator games for example, neither these more light events with isk space consequence like the eve top model with a quite good level of acceptance either and obviously wouldn't have such large attendence to my bars and activities in game.
It's a bit dangerous to classify "rp community" as a small niche of some players who happens to enjoy spending time on forums etc. ( ex backstage or chatsubo). Take the Opera for example, I have every weekend around 50 players around the clock Friday-Sunday "role playing" inside a channel and many of them don't even know that this forum or role play related forums exists.
Aren't they part of a "role play community" because of that? I would think they are. what about those 200 plays players participating at events and such? Aren't they part of a "role play community" too?
So what is interesting to define in such vlogs or blogs is: what exactly is a " role play community" ?
To say that a character A or character B is " disliked" is a delicate topic that you should consider more carefully taking on account such answers to form an opinion, otherwise they might not reflect the actual situation in eve online as a game.
Also, some ideas to engage the topic: consider that the role play approach have changed much along the years. Personal dislikes and heavy ooc grudges were formed years back when players like myself and others began to do things that were against the " rule of precious books" that were unwritten but psychologically engaged into the minds of some prominent role players.
An example of that was when I decided to use mercenaries in role play wars. Nowadays this is largely welcomed and embraced but back there it was reason enough to label my behaviour as unacceptable and destructive towards the "role play community". So much that some of my most arduous "dislikes" comes exactly from those days.
I, as a player like to be innovative and challenge the status quo. I enjoy the game creating and pushing new concepts and I don't mind risking consequences for doing so.
So the change on approach and breaking pseudo rules were heavily done back in the years where we were all trying to form a common base to interact as a community but those years didn't shape themselves lightly.
Nowadays we have a very light, stable ( i dare say) "community" but consider that it did come with a price that some of us could say still see it reflected nowadays.
Next point, About the rumors you refer of people ooc hearing this and that, also comes from same sources. One good example that is quite (fun?) in a way 1, 2 players who are regulars of this ooc channel in game and the ic channel named summit - (both which revan neferis character is blocked by default btw) once had said that my work as an executive sport cars designer and engineer weren't really true, in fact I was a very ruthless Russian Mafiosa Boss which also engages on unholy baby killing ritualistic activities at the "Bohemian Grove"... which happens to play eve. *ahem*
In their minds, this "oh so terrible" revelation would supposedly reach the hearts of new players and tell them " dont you ever approach Revan or engage on Sani Sabik role play because THAT PLAYER OF THAT CHARACTER.... you SEE!?"
And several other attempts of character and role play "assassination" as the term used, have been attempted by the same players over and over along the years which reaches the scope of the channels they use to frequent ( and even that is backfiring ) but that's all about it really.
Case point in TL, DR version is: To say that what happens inside ooc channel is the same as the scope of "a role play community" is giving it a dimension that isn't really there.
Also, the last point on your video related to as why rumors generally comes from people who never interacted or spoken to the player before is because consider that there is a price to pay when we confront reality x the fantasies we want to believe. For example, I dare say that the many eve players and friends meeting me in real life along the years might have gotten a little bit disappointed by not finding the .22 caliber handgun under my business suit and they are also disappointed by the fact that Jade hasn't reported strange accidents with Ice picks either.... ouch?
But I use the " light comment " to show that people who spreads these sort of rumors have no interest on approaching the object of their dislike because that would break their rumors chain and the evil picture they like to think its cool to propagate. Of course some go beyond the edge of civility when they see that their pseudo rumors aren't really helping much their case but that's totally irrelevant to the point about your comment on the video.
Wall of text to comment here as my name specifically was mentioned in your vlog, so here are my views on the matters you spoke about.
Hope to see more vlogs from you Seriphyn, good work.
edit to correct ic/ooc channel names and references
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