I asked because RP communities are extremely toxic in every fandom. At least if you go deeper into some of the more serious RP, as well as ERP circles. It's people who take the world, its lore, and their characters VERY seriously and will often take personal offense if someone doesn't like their personal interpretation. It also just attracts very certain kinds of people.
This isn't something unique to FFXIV. If you're in an RP community, especially deep in it, you stare into the depths of worst depravities. You will see grooming, blackmail, doxxing, stalking, etc. I remain on the fringes of any RP community I join because of it. The WoW RP community was one of the absolute worst RP communities I've ever seen and is why I stay on the fringes of others. Maybe I don't know the worst of it in FFXIV because I haven't taken the deep dive, but relationship drama was an every day thing in WoW. Finding out that some 40 year old dude was specifically targetting 15 year old night elf RPers was every other week. And so on.
Most people who join the game will never deep dive into the RP community. And it's true what I've said, tons of people relay their overwhelmingly positive experiences in the community as new players. Anyone who wants to RP, be careful. And I'm certainly not going to point to the RP community as representative of the community as a whole. Especially because to find some of the more depraved stuff, you have to go pretty deep into the ERP circles.