r/actualgyaru

Lately, I've been seeing a lot of animosity directed at the subreddit from gals on other platforms, especially Tiktok, but I'm wondering where it all comes from.

I see people reference the subreddit a lot when talking about putting gals with fairlyyy beginner makeup skills on a pedestal just because they're White, as opposed to a Black, Brown, or Asian gal with more advanced skills and experience. Now, I do think there's something to be said about this happening in the gyaru community as a whole, but I can't say I've noticed this happening here.

Another thing I see brought up a lot is the "gyaru-inspired yabi vs gyaru" debate, which is a whole 'nother conversation, but I feel like that hasn't been a hot topic here for a while now. I've also seen people complain about the spike of either baby gals spreading misinformation, non-gals spreading misinformation, or people using the subreddit like Google (which, I personally don't think is necessarily a bad thing. Asking a community of gals to guarantee you get up-to-date answers directly from the community probably feels better than surfing the web, where any joe shmoe could've written the article you're reading, but I understand that it gets annoying.) I think these kinds of complaints used to be legitimate, but I feel like a lot of this stuff has been filtered out over the last few months. If there's an account in the comments saying something that I know isn't true and said misinfo post is their only interaction on the subreddit, I've started just blocking them. I assume most others do the same.

For Tiktok-specific complaints, I've seen a few people say the community here is hateful towards or biased against gals on Tiktok, but I honestly don't think that's true at all. I remember making a post asking why gals on Tiktok were so nasty to each other/baby gals, whereas gals here and on twt don't seem to act that way, but the upvote ratio on that was bleak, to say the least, and it seemed like people here like the Tiktok community just fine.

Is it possible that some of these are big problems that I just haven't seen myself? Are there other things that could be making people talk about the subreddit so negatively? I don't see many people really going into depth about their dislike, but I'm genuinely curious, so I feel like it'd be useful to ask here.