Tanks, and the bad rap they get

Hi. I'm a Sion main. I main a champion who's sole purpose is to keep the enemy team locked down, and keep my team alive long enough to do their damage. I don't often get very many kills per game, and I don't complain when those kills are taken from me despite how much damage I did for that kill, or how much I want it to round out my KDA.

There are a lot of tanks that do what Sion does. I play them not as regularly as Sion, but I know enough. I see a lot of hate thrown at tanks, and I feel like there is a general consensus that tanks not only require very little to no skill, but that tanks themselves are something a lot of players hate interacting with. I get it. Truly, I do. Nobody enjoys being CC chained for a solid 5-6 seconds while they get melted by the enemy mage/AD. I hate it when I play non-tanks. The problem is, that's our job. There really is nothing else to it. If we DON'T do that, our team loses, and we get flamed (fuck, I've been flamed while we were WINNING).

Why are tank players that are good at their jobs seen as unskillful? Yeah, skillcaps and skill floors are a thing, and tanks tend to be a low skill floor, low skill cap breed. But we can't all be Faker or Bjergsen. I'm just not that good, and I don't enjoy those playstyles as much (maybe as a consequence of not being good at them.) I understand, believe me I understand that CC sucks to go through, but we are a necessary part of the game. Do you know how awful it feels for me to hear how much people hate the game when we're in a "tank meta"? That's like going in to work and doing what you love to do and are good at, and everyone whispers behind your back how much they wish you would just get fired, despite how needed you are at the company. It fucking sucks. It hurts. And then you have people going around telling basically lies about how too strong tanks are (No, Fuffy, tanks like Zac CAN'T assassinate you, no matter how much you talk about how they do it.)

Being a tank main sucks everywhere but in game.