Alright you need a Wooden Greathammer, dump your charisma, and play it up as Lawful Evil.

Oh absolutely, but like, the guy who brags about his villainy ain't exactly complex, but I like it like that sometimes.

I will literally let my table sit in silence before butting in.

Like, I've trained myself to hold back so much I struggle to get a word in edgewise in more proactive groups.

The problem is definitely they're introverts, but I can't force them to talk.

Sounds like my Akita

Of course there's ways to be better, but getting mad at the active player kinda justifies them calling them out.

I'm a very social player and even I can feel like I'm talked over sometimes in a very engage RP-heavy group, just because I've trained myself not to interrupt people.

I like a bit of 50/50 as a DM, and my players adore what I do sometimes.

Legit great ideas and easily implemented.

I've seen this too; the problem is people who use this legitimate problems to shame someone who's doing nothing wrong.

I think they're all pretty solid, but my favorite is and will always be "My Warlock Patron is my overbearing mom who rediscovered me and is desperately trying to embody what a mom is, with no context for what any of it means, or what "age appropriate" means".

I used to be in a lot of bad groups, with really horrible DMs and they would regularly shame me for actually roleplaying my character and engaging in roleplay instead of just shitposting and being a dumbass, or for like, actually making a character instead of exclusively hyper-optimizing for solely combat.

I mean, Minnesotans are Vikings....