[Mewni]

There is a really good reason why people seclude themselves within groups, especially as of now. I speak from experience.

No matter how hard you try, even if you strive to simply be the supportive role in someone's story, no one will give a shit. They WILL simply ignore you no matter how important or not or how badly affected your character got in a plot, in favor of focusing on their friends only.
Doesn't matter how much effort you put into it.
No matter how true you stay to the actual consequences of things happening.
No matter what others do to you or not.
and hell doesn't even matter something should have repercussions or not from the actions others did, as long as the higher-ups on a big group couldn't care less and the one doing it to you is their friend.

The issue is not a lack of roleplay, the issue is that people only care about their circle, hyperfocus on that, and to hell with everyone else.

After I pretty much had my main character dismissed completely after horrible things were done to them (Without even the courtesy of being told anything about how the situation developed on the events that was lead after it was done to them, among more disheartening things) even if I kept myself 10 hours a day logged with being aware I was around. And even being told "I wasn't aware Mewni even logged in anymore, I never see them." Which made others point out that, indeed, I logged in and stayed on all the time. All of that mind you, done shortly after all the work I did put in 1 year of DAILY presence being completely ignored, and IC actions and worries being completely shrugged off in favor of "A friend asked lol" without any rhyme or reason ICly.

A lot of 'loud and prominent' figures of the community simply ignores any character building, their own character feelings, and are extremelly hypocritical on their mindset or the results of the things happening around them, simply because of friendship they built, or because they have something to gain from it.

Then what happens, you ask?

Well, people either feel extreme desolation and stop playing, or they avoid these people or groups (aka kindly named 'Cult' by many) because no matter how hard you try, or how much effort you put into something, nothing matters as long as others oocly don't want it to be so, and only their own stuff matters, nobody else.

Said character of mine, completely destroyed by the lack of caring, just runs her hospital and, is only logged on to do stuff related to that.
So I made a new character, put a challenge on how they would be built (won't go into details) and ran with it. And i had a lot of roleplay happen, my character wasn't important to many people's stories, but they were aknowledged and had constant RP thrown their way, that gave a breath of new life to the complete "hopelessness" I had, and all occured once I stopped trying to fit in or attempt to have IC things happen in a place that only the simply put, circlejerk mattered.

No one will put effort where they know it will be glossed over, no one will give the time of day after being smacked down so much by others and completely discarded once not needed anymore.

So once I stopped being around and only known in the groups that have 'protagonists' and the friends of said circle (Which expand to their many alts) I had quite a bit of my will to roleplay revigorated, because RP does exists around quite a lot.

People are just avoiding those that made/makes them feel like garbage, and that their creative efforts into having a breathing, living character doesn't matter.