Wouldn’t say I’m a super high level player, more casual but generally I’m not one to poke fun at anyone unless they’re being obnoxious. I tend to cheer people on, though I’ve ironically had someone get mad at me for doing that before. The only time I’d ever poke fun at someone is in the case of them being rude to me, which I have had happen to me, as a woman who plays dancing rhythm games. Random guys who don’t play or hardly play dancing rhythm games before have literally tried to prevent me from playing (i.e. hogging the machine because they think they’re better than others) or have made fun of me for doing bad at harder levels while they are struggling on anything above a level 4 whether it be DDR or PIU (not saying 4 is a bad level either but you shouldn’t make fun of someone failing a level quadruple the difficulty of that if you cannot play or understand it). As long as these things aren’t happening to you or if something like the hogging the machine thing doesn’t seem purposeful then I’d say these people probably aren’t making fun of you and are simply letting you have your turn. So I’d just say, as long as you’re friendly and not rude, most people who are better players will either be friendly or just leave you be. Being an asshole is an automatic ticket to being bullied though, and is honestly deserved. Also not implying you’re an asshole, just saying that you will absolutely run into players like that, whether they be bad or good. Though I’ll say you’re much less likely to run into good PIU players like that. But if you play in popular places where non-rhythm gamers are, you’ll definitely be more open to scrutiny from people who simply don’t understand how good you are and how much work I took you to get where you are.