Yes Kid , ~90% of the Pop stuff is stupid and stupid people bait for it , now go play with your Fidget Spinner and make Instagram Photos about it.
If I'm a kid then you must be senile. The fact that you don't understand this program at all and just write it off as a fad is typical old ppl shit lol, and makes you look incredibly stupid.
I play multiple games, I have Discord open for:
- for TYM, for obvious reasons, great place to chat with people on here, discuss anything, and the Discord community in general is a lot of fun and much less toxic than TYM, and even people who didn't like each other on the forums have become friends through it
- for Australian NRS community who mostly don't use TYM to help me find matches will people in my country.
- for I2 Flash, to help me get instant answers to questions while I'm labbing and to help answer other peoples
- for Australian Fighting Game scene, to help me find games for SFV, and Also has many helpful things like a trade channel for sticks / pads / convertors, and helped me fix my own stick, and just in general discusses the Australian community and scene for the game, which is very different to the US one which is what everyone else talks about
- for SFV Vega, to save me diving through piles of threads on Shory for info for a game I don't play as seriously
- for Marvel Heroes, necessary for organizing group content, raiding, and just an excellent place to discuss comic book shit
- for Starcraft Zerg, this is a game where the best resource is other better people as every problem is relative to your own play and help is almost always most useful when given on an individual level, there is no substitute for Discord for this and just discussing issues
- and for my corp on EvE online, a tight group of core friends from very different time zones (even South Africa), its an excellent free voice program for when we are online together for a game that requires and benefits from 3rd party comms, but also a great way to leave messages for each other when we aren't, and to continue discussing shit so we don't lose touch and maybe lose interest in the game because we don't see each other online all that often without arranging it, which had happened in the past before Discord. It's also a great way for us to ARRANGE those times for us to be online to play as a unit, because thats hard to arrange with a bunch of people who are never organically online at the same time - Discord let us organize easily through the program that is basically our voice comms. Eve is also an open world game, people we even interact with in our area even people who we play against in game, send them an invite to public channel and its cool to have them on call when the need be or just having more people around shooting the shit and keeping our community interesting for everyone.
All in 8 little tabs on the side of my Discord, each tab gives me a little indicator when there is new message, and each tab is broken down into multiple channels, any or all are of which are muteable if I don't care for notifications for that particular channel, so everytime there is a new message, it's something I want to read. That's an explanation for you.
And thats the games I'm playing currently. When I was playing Dawn of War 3 beta earlier this year for example, there was a Discord up for it, so I joined it. Had all my niche questions immediately answered and immediately found people of my skill level looking for sets. I left because I didn't like the game. The discord however was excellent. That's just the most recent example. I keep my Discord tabs relevant to the things I'm currently doing, but it's SUCH a useful program.
I've been using Discord for nearly 2 years now. You might not understand or care why the program is so good for some simply because it's not useful for you, but it most certainly is not a fad. It's a great way to keep in touch with multiple people from multiple communities, all in the one place, with free voice chat channels, and it's available as an app as well.
I don't think Discord is for stupid people. I think stupid people are the ones who call everyone else stupid just because they are using something that you don't understand. lol