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You can’t put any weight into what people on the internet think of you. Especially if you have no real life support to buoy you against the never ending torrent
by FounderBurr 5y ago
You can’t put any weight into what people on the internet think of you. Especially if you have no real life support to buoy you against the never ending torrent of free abuse available if you go looking for it.
Be weird, do your own thing for your own reasons and let that be enough.
- mkr-hn 5y agoHumans have a wide range of emotional response curves. Sometimes they're really steep and being harassed is an absolute nightmare of highs and lows. This is called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) in neurodivergent discourse.
- hsbauauvhabzb 5y agoTry saying that when ‘those mean internet people’ are doxing your friends, or emailing your coworkers. Don’t downplay the issue.
- psyc 5y agoThe biggest problem with KF, as I see it, isn’t really what they do and say. Most of what they do is quote people, and most of what they say is snappy, mean quips about the quotes. I’m sure there have been incidents when forum members escalated further, but it’s not their usual MO. The problem is that they specifically select targets based on how they react. The more a target obsesses over their own thread or responds emotionally to what KF posts about them, the more KF focuses attention on them. So KF’s favorite targets who get the most abuse are going to be exactly those who are least equipped to handle it.