Your Teammates Aren't Worse Than You
I think there is a mentality that has been created by challenger players and YouTube guides that says, "your teammates are bad, so if you want to carry, then you can't rely on them." By itself this isn't bad advice, but it this gets wildly misinterpreted by low elo players such as myself. If you have this mindset, you probably aren't a challenger smurf who is just needs to rise above your trash, gold-elo, teammates. It's way more likely that you are just a gold-elo player and you are playing in matches that are right for you.
I think the emphasis on climbing is super silly. It puts people in a toxic mindset of "everyone around me is trash."
Instead of flaming your top laner for not having priority when they got counter picked, maybe understand that they aren't supposed to win that matchup if they have equal skill. Maybe lane swap or give them a gank while they are getting frozen on.
Instead of flaming your jungler for giving up objectives, maybe use the priority that you do have to join them for Dragon/Herald instead of greeding for plates.
Instead of flaming your mid laner for getting pushed up vs a Viktor, understand that Viktor is good a pushing and it has nothing to do with the skill of your ally.
Instead of flaming your ADC for doing no damage, you might notice that their support Lux has been ulting their waves for the last 8 minutes.
Instead of flaming your support for not warding or getting caught out while warding, maybe consider that they have to walk into fog to ward. Maybe walk with them.
We don't need challenger smurfs in Gold. I just need my Gold teammates to stop acting like they are the main character and play with their team instead of against it.