Tryhards

I’m not sure if this is controversial and I am no way shaming anyone as this post is just more of a way for me to cure my curiosity.

Since I’ve played on PS5, there has been a huge surge of ‘tryhards’ or wannabe tryhards. By tryhards. I’m not talking about the Uversuspro skilled type of players, but the players who dress in glitched outfits, facepaints, high kd, flaunt their modded vehicles, ‘beach/base’ players etc. They occasionally have the username of (for example) “Ayexzia-I” “exqzus-“ “IIlIlIlII-Ill” and every time I see them I ask myself “why”. Not in any way to hate on them because I know it’s just a playstyle, I’m not into it but I believe you do you but I do see a lot of controversy surrounding them and I see why as people use it as an excuse to be toxic. (There’s tons of YouTube videos)

I always wonder where this ‘culture’ came from, who these people are in real life and why they do it. Are they toxic people who want to watch the world burn or are they just copying others and simply find it a fun way to play.

They play VERY specific as well and have very similar profiles…(always private, no cover photo, occasionally Japanese/Korean as language - (im on euro servers) It’s almost as if they’re apart of a secret organisation or something lol. Am I over analysing? How does this work. I’ve always wondered.