The iRacing Community Owes Me an Apology

I bought iRacing as a teen because like many others I believed it to be the future of sim racing. Within about a year. it was very obvious that it was no better or worse than other racing sims on the market, and I started asking pretty basic questions about both what we paid for & the curiously "intense" fanbase surrounding it.


This resulted in large chunks of the sim racing community - including iRacing themselves - smearing me as a crazed hater out to destroy the company, and constantly having to deal with a "welcoming community" that was suspiciously hostile the moment someone recognized my name. I don't have fond memories of sim racing over the past decade, but rather this weird saga of nerds chasing after me while attempting to be a content creator and engage with the community.


Close to a decade later, I've been vindicated for my opinions on several major fronts, and statements or observations I made that people overreacted to, are now quite common. There has been no acknowledgement that maybe I was onto something.


There probably should be.