Skoll Shorties

i got a hot take for ya: fans and artists were rightfully upset at Sylvanas burning Teldrassil, but the call for retribution is so much higher in the fanbase than when Garrosh enslaved and murdered trolls of the Horde and created a fascist police state with public executions

I think part of it (not all of it, cause I agree about the disproportionate response) was the presentation. Before MoP even began, it was made clear in no uncertain terms that Garrosh was MoP's villain. The things he was doing were presented in a wholly negative light, and -

the playerbase was immediately pitted against Garrosh and his crimes. There was no uncertainty that what was happening to the Darkspear was bad, and the story reflected that. With Teldrassil, Blizzard didn't do that. Sylvanas's villainy wasn't revealed until the END of BFA, -