“They didn’t help us in the second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example. They mentioned names of different battles. But they’re there to help us with their land and that’s a different thing.”
I think that around 50% of tumblr users are just balls of vitriol and malice and we’ve created a culture where it’s cool and celebrated to be extremely rude to strangers
Twitter is also worse and it all makes me really fucking sad
Also having an extreme response to something generates more attention through likes/retweets/reblogs, so the most extreme negative reactions circulate the most. The nature of these platforms rewards hyperbole and vitriol. And as the extremes start to polarize, this drives the less extreme people away from those conversation circles, because they’re so tired of the anger and hate (this is why I’ve avoided most social media platforms thus far, I have enough problems without being exposed to new ones on the internet). Thus, over time, only the extremes remain, and they continue to reinforce each other and be rewarded for it. The whole community becomes toxic, and everyone is angry until they die from early heart attacks.
This is a very insightful take on it and I completely agree.
Especially when it comes to Twitter. It’s impossible to be polite on Twitter because of the character limit. It takes too many letters to explain anything politely with any nuance so the only way to respond to any disagreement is to call the OP a fucking idiot and then drop a reaction gif.
On Twitter the explanation you just gave wouldn’t even have been postable.
I’m going to comment on to this threat to make a few brief clarifying statements about the original post because some people have taken it upon themselves, intentionally or unintentionally, to drastically misunderstand what I meant.
I mean that just under the surface, many people, especially teenagers who end up in backwater communities like this one, are quietly desperate to hurt and/or exert power over other people, and to this end they are constantly on the watch for a socially acceptable target. They may be blogging like normal looking at funny cat .gifs 90% of the time, but then as soon as another person exposes their jugular, they go straight for it without hesitation, and they go out of their way to do as much damage as they can in their window of opportunity.
And we’ve created a society here where instead of being suppressed, this desire is encouraged so long as you pick a socially acceptable enough target(and it’s important to note that the funnier your attack is, the less socially acceptable the target has to be as a target).
This post was never meant to get super popular, I was really just thinking out loud, but what prompted me to make this post was seeing a callout post for some dude made by that dude’s former friends in which they gave out all of his contact information so that he could be harassed by the massive following of their very successful comedy/gimmick blog. The I checked the list of grievances, to find that, assuming any of it was true in the first place, the dude was kind of a dick. But that’s just it. He wasn’t doing anything dangerous to other people or posing any sort of lingering threat that would necessitate everybody in the world knowing to watch out for him by name, he was just being an asshole with a few anger management issues thrown in there. The right response would’ve just been to kick him out of the discord server and stop talking to him, but instead they went out of their way to do as much damage to him as possible and to ensure that thousands of people harass him and he’s probably going to have to abandon his various social media accounts to escape from it.
I had been thinking about this for a while, how many of the “funny” posts that cross my dashboard can be boiled down to some popular blog absolutely ripping some random guy a new asshole with insults just for making the wrong comment on a post, especially when that comment usually comes from a place of ignorance moreso than malice.
I’m not saying there’s anything inherently and irredeemably wrong with springboarding a joke off someone’s comment, even if it makes that person the butt of the joke, but so many of the “funny” posts here have such a massive disconnect between the hostility level of the comment and the hostility level of the ‘clapback’. It’s like Person1 stepping on Person2’s foot in a crowded street and Person2’s response is to wheel around and knock their teeth out. And we celebrate this by giving it positive attention all the time. We should not be encouraging this behavior.
A day after threatening to obliterate its economy if Turkey attacked the Kurds, US President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be “coming to the US as my guest on November 13th,” and reminded his audience of Turkey’s importance as a trading partner and NATO member.
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