Why Do People Discriminate Against Children?

[StixxyTape]

Can someone please give me some advice?

Recently I've started playing on a different server than I usually would and I honestly thought the community was really fun, until I talked.

For the first couple of rounds I was playing I honestly thought that this server was so nice and fun, as no-one was toxic. Although I myself didn't want to talk yet as I thought they would hate me for being a kid.

Alas, my worst nightmare came true.

Incident #1

I spawned as a facility guard and decided to talk over the radio. I said, "Come on guys. Lets try and find the checkpoint".

Then someone said "Why'd I have to spawn with a child".

I thought this was really rude, although I thought maybe what I said was a bit cringe.

Incident #2

I spawned as a d-boi and found a keycard, then made my way over to 914. As I was Upgrading some more d-boi's came in, and then some facility guards.

While in the machine with one of the guards I made some casual banter by asking questions like "So.. How's your day going?" and "Must be tough being a guard."

I got shot. Immediately. They disarmed all the other d-boi's who were making some conversation too, although they sounded way older than me .

When the round ended I asked the facility guard why he shot me. He said "I just thought you were really annoying."

I was honestly really annoyed at this. I started to talk less after that though, but I'm just wondering, how can I be less annoying even though I'm a child.

I know there will always be people who find me annoying but how would I make so there's less of those people.

Any and all advice is appreciated.

[Shedletsky]

The best way to handle those problems is to simply mute them by pressing the N button and scroll to the person causing you problems and click on the speaker icon so you can't hear their nonsense anymore.

[proclous]

just say that they are bullies. say: stop bullying me for being underage.

[Dgrunkle Sam III]

There's a common saying that "Children are like farts, you can only tolerate your own." It's the energetic persona that radiates from the younglings that can be irritating to most players looking to socialize with mature individuals.

[Dgrunkle Sam III]

And as for advice: grow some thick skin when you run into those people - don't let such empty words impact you. Do what you can to enjoy the game as best as you can.

[76561198860112328]

I happens to almost every kind of people

[UnderKingDuck]

I would suggest you try to find a different server first of all. The one that I play on usually has no problems with kids playing on it which is Trash Panda Time. I'm sure there are a few others im just bias. I'm not going to say you won't run into anyone that does not act like ass since anyone can join, but it seems less likely to happen. And if i ever see it come up while I'm playing I usually got their back because I went through the same stuff growing up.

Other then that just take a moment to be grateful that at least your more mature then those "adults". If they don't want to play with kids i would suggest they play something that is not F2P and/or is single player game.

[Ryan McApplebees]

Originally posted by Tape:

Can someone please give me some advice?

Recently I've started playing on a different server than I usually would and I honestly thought the community was really fun, until I talked.

For the first couple of rounds I was playing I honestly thought that this server was so nice and fun, as no-one was toxic. Although I myself didn't want to talk yet as I thought they would hate me for being a kid.

Alas, my worst nightmare came true.

Incident #1

I spawned as a facility guard and decided to talk over the radio. I said, "Come on guys. Lets try and find the checkpoint".

Then someone said "Why'd I have to spawn with a child".

I thought this was really rude, although I thought maybe what I said was a bit cringe.

Incident #2

I spawned as a d-boi and found a keycard, then made my way over to 914. As I was Upgrading some more d-boi's came in, and then some facility guards.

While in the machine with one of the guards I made some casual banter by asking questions like "So.. How's your day going?" and "Must be tough being a guard."

I got shot. Immediately. They disarmed all the other d-boi's who were making some conversation too, although they sounded way older than me .

When the round ended I asked the facility guard why he shot me. He said "I just thought you were really annoying."

I was honestly really annoyed at this. I started to talk less after that though, but I'm just wondering, how can I be less annoying even though I'm a child.

I know there will always be people who find me annoying but how would I make so there's less of those people.

Any and all advice is appreciated.

How old are you? I'm 14 and no one is mean to me

[Bomber Rex]

Originally posted by Tape:

Can someone please give me some advice?I know there will always be people who find me annoying but how would I make so there's less of those people.

There are 2 kinds of people:
A) People who hate kids
B) People who hate the things kids usually do.

Ignore the people in example A, they are like the people you mentioned in your post. Example B which are the majority of people is what im going to help you on. A lot of people would say your voice is this the problem and theres nothing you can do about it but there are things you can change. These things might sound quite small and irrelevant but make a big difference.
Follow these steps/rules:

1) Move your mic away from your mouth a bit. People hate 2 things, loud and high pitched sounds. Some guy with a loud mic is annoying but tolerable, a kid with a loud mic and an annoying high pitch voice is extremely annoying.

2) Don't say random meaningless stuff. Like "Lets find the check point guys". It might sound ok to you but to others they are thinking why are you telling us this we are going to do this automatically every round. It doesn't mean you don't have a conversation, just don't say dead memes and things that don't make sense.
That other time you asked a guard in 914 how his day was etc. Thats okay. Thats roleplaying but the guard acted like a jerk.

3) This is optional but you could try deepening your voice a bit. Take your phone and record you saying something in the volume you would usually talk to other players in the game. Now play that recording so you know how others feel when listening to you.

Tldr: Don't be obnoxious, loud and high pitched. Basically don't be annoying. Remember, a lot of people don't hate kids they hate the things kids usually do.

[Hollen]

Mic spam, more likely to be douches, etc... not hard to understand.

[NxE]

Don't let this mess with you just mute em and keep ur attitude towards the game the same. Just because that one person is an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ doesn't mean u should turn into one too

[Criss Angel ◥▶ ◀◤]

Sorry man, I find it very upsetting when I see anyone being discriminated against for their voice in SCP, the community can be ruthless, I would recommend finding 1 or 2 server you can play on and have fun and sticking to them.

[ZegPath81]

Well there's a good server you can try called The Mound. It has a good amount of plugins, and I have not encountered any child discrimination there at all.

[Blue Foot]

I think the best solution is to get really good and destroy them in a gun fight. Piss him off a little. As a younger person myself(though listening to my voice I wouldn't describe it as "high", kinda average.) I take pleasure in shooting down the people talking s***.

[Troz]

Found the little child (ofc he has a goku profile picture lmfaoo)

[Space Brick]

I remember when people used to talk ♥♥♥♥ to me on Xbox when I was a kid haha.

It's unfortunate for kids and young teens just trying to genuinely socialize on the internet. As others have said, there are reasons for why people have a negative bias against children. Children are known to be well.. immature. Spamming, exploiting, having a bad sense of humor, you name it, has made plenty of people wary of younger players and has given an excuse for them to have a negative attitude towards kids as soon as they meet them. As you have guessed, a kid's higher pitched voice is a dead giveaway and to some an invite for taunting. There's very little you can do about rude, mean, players unfortunately, other than mute them or try to find servers without people like them.

If someone is harassing you in particular, if they're actually trying to focus on you in-game consistently (searching for you in particular as peanut or something), ask a mod for help or leave the server.

If there is a mod or admin on the server and they have a keen sense for excessive harassment they might give you a hand and warn the hooligans.

There are plenty of mean people on the internet. Games like this, party games where the value of the game is from the interaction with others, tend to be especially volatile with an even mix of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and nice people.

Muting yourself is an option if you want, you could try communicating with text only. Though not sure if this game actually has a chat button. That being said, don't be afraid to talk! Have fun! It's your game too!

The more you talk around people the quicker they'll get used to your voice and not feel like ♥♥♥♥ talking you (outside of the conventional SL ♥♥♥♥ talking threshold).