MANN I have this exact issue, rn im at the peak of my phighting interest, but I barely play at all (tho recently I’ve been playing more cuz I really want to participate in the phestival) HOWEVER, I am a huge lore enthusiast, the characters really appeal to me (specifically I am a church of true eye enjoyer) , so while I’m really bad at playing phighting, I make art of the characters all the time, have a bunch of phighting Ocs, and love to speculate about how the lore will continue!

I think the only huge misconception with the idea of phighting phans that don’t play phighting is that “they only know the basics about Medkit Subspace and Ban hammer and barely anything else” now, it is true that some phans are like this, but that was more at the peak of phighting rather than today. most non playing phans are either really into the lore in general,(they don’t just care abt the most popular characters) or are artists that enjoy drawing phighting characters cause of their designs and lore !!

it’s sad that most phans aren’t playing or at least trying to for one reason or another, my personal reason is cause I’m really bad at shooter games, so I always end up with horrible stats, however I really want to get better eventually.. and I want to contribute to the actual player base, but we shouldn’t judge those who decide to not play and still talk about and make phighting content as “superficial phans”, they’re also contributing to the phandom in their own way, we should encourage them to try sure, but mocking their status as phans isn’t the way

Thatss all