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

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    As someone who spent too much time on the internet growing up I'm genuinely beginning to think it would be for the best to have it heavily censored and regulated if not outright banned for anything but encyclopedic knowledge. It's really not a healthy way for people to interact, and I say this as a joke a lot but I do on some level believe spending too much time on places like 4chan or even this place gives you some form of actual, physical, LITERAL brain damage.