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

  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    There was a big attempt to scare people from being pro-anonymous internet a few years ago with cyber bullying. Saying things like "these people can't be held accountable".

    It was all bullshit.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That sounds like a recipe for people getting harassed irl by random freaks because you didn't like their race realism posts.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      When MySpace came out it weirded me the fuck out that people would post real ass pictures of themselves online. You just DIDNT do that before