• abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    lmao yeah the entire video I was sitting there like "the alpha is going to get tripped by someone in the lunch room" but then again, a lot of the bullies growing up were also the kind who would absolutely love a kid like this. Bullying via encouragement, like sarcastically calling them 'the alpha' and convincing him to stand up in class & be a dipshit and the kid not picking up on it at all.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      That was me, I was that bully. It was a rare type when I was a kid. I was also a non nerd brand weird kid that was kinda hard to place by those who attended my fancy classes cause I was a smart boi

      • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah I had a number of friends who were those bullies. We both know the alpha is going to wind up stumbling into some jock or dude who never leaves the mechanics/ag & has never interacted with the alpha, who is going to blink when the alpha tells them to apologize & subsequently cause everyone to have to go to a 2hr long school-wide assembly about bullying when he gives the alpha a public wedgie at 8am on a wednesday morning in front of half of the school.

        Or there will invariably be a recreation of that classic Simpsons scene with the monkey knife fight with two dweebs when their daily alpha karate/misogyny demonstration in the corner of the courtyard gets heated one day over something inscrutable to the rest of the school.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I graduated high school in 2009. Alpha weirdos were simply not a thing. I was a skater kid who became a pink rocker soon after but was in a placement you either had to be smart enough for or buy your way into and I was the last of the ones who weren't bought in by then end. It was proto bros wall to wall for the most part who were dramatic and gossipy as fuck, so I'd just toss some bullshit in the mix for a gag every once in a while. I didn't like any of them so it was sorta being Bender from breakfast club style bullying. Also the 'jocks' couldn't fight worth shit and all they all bussed in to the schools in bad neighborhoods that these AP things were done in for probably dumb political stats reasons. I lived in these places and hung out with the scary kids that did normal school. By high school I was taking weeks out to tour with punk bands and play bars and shit. It was more not liking anyone I had classes with, being a sarcastic and deceptive little shit and not fearing any retribution cause they'd get felonies committed against them if they did.

          It also made me their only weed connect later cause no other white kid was allowed to.