I did this back during the easter event of 2019(I think? The one with the really cute rank 50 reward that I can't even remember anymore (buns I think?)). I was having such a hard time keeping rank, I ran out of gold to keep rank, and had a minor epiphany that I was wasting my life away. So I took away most incentive to stay on the game and trashed most of my items. I told my crew what I was doing and instead of understanding I had everyone in my DMs literally yelling at me, at how I was being selfish, to stop throwing a tantrum, etc etc. I even calmly explained that I had realized there was no point in doing this to myself. (they weren't even mad about the economy, btw! Most of the items I had weren't worth more than 10k and there were hundreds if not thousands of them, and they all made no mention of that anyways, and the one item I did delete that had major worth and impact in the community I reached out to customer support to have reinstated and pushed it back into the economy myself.)

When I quit I did come back and do some events with what little gold I had left by selling whatever I had left to sell, and slowly fizzled out of the game and stopped posting altogether.

They claim they removed the explore page because of toxicity but when they removed the explore page it was during a scandal that THEY were the center of and people kept criticising them and those posts kept being pushed to the front of the explore feed. But once they removed the explore feed, that's when it went WAY downhill, and they only removed it to avoid moderating it. There were times where literal pictures of minors engaging in... activities... were left up there for entire WEEKENDS and no one did anything about them because they were all offline. Including customer support. Or pictures of genitals, gore, violence etc. so instead of moderating it they removed it to avoid dealing with that.

Once they did that, however, social interaction slowly trickled to a halt. People who'd get 50-100 likes on their posts were suddenly getting maybe 5-10, while those who monopolized the explore feed prior to it's removal and had 100's of thousands of followers remained able to generate income through their art because they were still being pushed to the top of hashtags, but now only by their followers which meant new people who didn't know how the hashtags worked weren't seeing their posts. People would only go into rooms now to advertise their sales since, well, explore was taken down so there was no way to BOOST their stuff.