I saw some guy on social media that I recognized, he was a streamer I really liked more than a decade ago, before streaming video games became popular, at the time he seemed quite sweet and just a fun lovable guy. Checked out his profile to see what he was doing, god damn I regret scrolling through his twitter feed. He's been on there for a while, his first post started in 2012 and was towards the end of his "normal" life, his posts just consist of very standard internet humor stuff from 2012 and lighthearted stuff. Fast forward to his posts now, he's an absolutely deranged reactionary and posts nonstop with almost every post being a reply to some random woman on twitter with a bunch of vicious personal attacks and often encouraging suicide, it was really vile. The saddest part was looking at the posts on how he attempted to reboot his streaming career on twitch and was surprised/fake outraged he got banned after he streamed nothing but himself hate replying to people on twitter. Also he really seems to worship sam hyde in some weird surrogate father figure way, big creepy vibes
anyway the point of this is holy FUCK can the internet fry some people's brains and it sucks bigtime but I'm sure you knew that, just need to vent
also not sure where to put this but its kind of related to video games so yea
I guess for every story of the internet being good and teaching people to be better there's a million other stories of the internet radicalizing people into vile ghouls.
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it's a prison of the ego and the only way out is helping others
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sorry, I wanted to imply "in real life" but I should have said