Just to caveat, as an old head I do actually want to offer context to one of the more obscure/legendary posts. But let’s also keep it respectful of this persons very bad day, as ridiculous as it was to essentially everyone else.
Just to caveat, as an old head I do actually want to offer context to one of the more obscure/legendary posts. But let’s also keep it respectful of this persons very bad day, as ridiculous as it was to essentially everyone else.
It was a mix, mainly people were incredulous. I think the initial difficulty in discerning whether it was a bit played into it, a lot of people thought it wasn’t sincere at first and I think not being taken seriously and then the subsequent memes on the sub were what pushed them over the edge.
In the actual threads they joined most of the top comments were trying to talk them down once it became clear they were in a bit of a spiral, but there were a lot of not very sensitive meme posts that of course drew them in.
No one, as far as I know, went out of their way to harass them directly. They just couldn’t resist continuing to engage even though they were obviously unhappy. It was very clearly a manic episode of some kind.
I would say that overall, the community on average didn’t behave too badly, and the mods did a good job of shutting shit down once it became clear what kind of headspace they were in.
A lot of unintentional harm as a meme post that wasn’t particularly mean-spirited would draw them in again. Of course some people kept teasing them about wanting to fuck the bunny cop. That was the main egregious thing.