Going on the internet used to be fun, in the before times.
Conspiracies used to be ironic things people did satirically (Birds are not real) and not actual belief systems with entire media spheres built around them (UFOs, Flat Earth).
They never were.
People repeating them on the internet used to do it ironically. But conspiracies always were actual belief systems and have always brought groups of people together to reinforce each other idiocies.
I prefer the term “distressed eccentric friend you’ll never meet” 🥲
Anyways, how about those sports teams/political parties/abortion rights?
Aww I like this, it’s wholesome
I remember in the early 2000s when I got Internet at home, one of my relatives kept telling me about forums and how great they were. And my thought was “Why would would I want to know what the average dumb fuck thinks about things?” I might have forgotten this wisdom.
Well, the nice thing is there are lots of people eager and waiting to let us all know when and precisely how, in elaborate detail, we are being dumb fucks ourselves.
Feedback is useful.
Literally every single day for me. I am lucky enough to have been blessed a job that is both easy and boring (literally just scan documents all day), which gives me plenty of downtime to find some people on the internet to stress me out since my job doesn’t. (Only took 20 years to find such a job.) Hell, I’m doing it right now!
And watch them spout irrefutable logic that somehow completely contradicts each other.
Luckily it’s hard for me to hold a phone and put a gun in my mouth at the same time.
You can tell it’s Twitter because they’re no acknowledgment of talking to bots.
I feel criticised twice.
She didn’t mention neet, so I’m good.
I… I may need to frame this and hang it over my monitor.
Satisfaction.
I’ll admit: I’ve started trolling the absurdly stupid commentary. I’m smart enough to engage in good faith quality discussuon, but bored with it now…
2010 me hates this, 2026 me laughs in hypocrisy. I’m literally trolling my past self
