Comments | swankivy: Reddit weirdoes

swankivy

Reddit weirdoes

Mar 18, 2008 12:40

I just found out that about a month ago, someone posted a link on Reddit to one of my essays, and the dozens of comments talking about me were overwhelmingly not nice. It's three parts amusing and one part disturbing ( Read more... )

internet, net assholes, web page, essays

Comments 13

fisme_nasu March 18 2008, 18:45:36 UTC

which essay was it? I'd like to read what they have to say so I can snark at them.

swankivy March 18 2008, 19:08:07 UTC

Hmm, well I guess I'd have my say too, but it's on Reddit, and I have no desire to join freakin' Reddit just so I can go through a bunch of month-old posts and write "Nuh-uh!" a lot.

The essay was my "I hate parties" type rant ( http://swankivy.com/writing/rants/parties.html ), but it was the old Everything2 version ( http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=995842 ), and the long and ridiculous link is here:

http://reddit.com/info/67o4a/comments/

I'm going to put up a dumb thing to address it later, but right now it's just a lot of whining. Ah, well, I bitch, therefore I am.

fisme_nasu March 18 2008, 19:55:10 UTC

I'm appalled. And those who said they read your page obviously didn't. And it looks like some of them went trolling for the worst pictures they could find.

Also, a whole bunch of them don't know how E2 works - all of those comments about the links... and if they cared to look at the DATE of the essay....

And why are you a loser if you choose to go to anime club? I know people who got together to watch regular tv.

Ugh. What a bunch of dingleberries.

swankivy March 20 2008, 16:05:49 UTC

Yeah, they came to the page looking for something to ridicule. As for the pics, quite honestly I don't see how the ones they posted are particularly bad . . . I have a lot worse pictures on my site! I don't care either!

I was glad someone pointed out that that's how E2 works when a couple idiots went on about how it's ridiculous for me to link every seventh word.

And yeah. The whole "anime club = loser" is just beyond strange. Maybe they thought "anime meeting" meant a convention, which is slightly more nerdy perhaps, but even that shouldn't have been met with a resounding diagnosis of loserism in my opinion. I doubt I could have brought further ridicule upon myself if I'd announced I play D&D with my friends while dressed in role-playing clothes.

I posted a dumbass rebuttal--though I'm not honestly sure why I wasted my time--on my site if you wanna see.
http://swankivy.com/writing/rants/parties/reddit.html

3v1lsh33pz March 18 2008, 20:27:02 UTC

it is quite obvious most of these people only read this line: I'm a loser? So going to loud parties, dancing, getting drunk, getting laid, and puking your guts out afterwards makes you a winner?

i especially don't get the one who thinks this all means you aren't comfortable in your own skin. it makes me laugh.

swankivy March 20 2008, 16:06:37 UTC

Yeah, same here about laughing . . . all they're doing there is showing how superficial their assessment of me is. Wow, losers on the Internet judged me based on two sentences. Must be right!

sunsetcloud March 18 2008, 21:38:51 UTC

It's sad just how nasty internet folk can get about those they don't even know. This type of thing happens time and time again on such sites as 'Oh No They Didn't' - someone will post a photo of a celebrity standing beside a fan and then everyone will jump on the bandwagon saying the most horrible things about the fan, like they're ugly, picking apart their photo the way they stand, facial expressions etc. You leave the sometimes-awful grounds of highschool but on the internet is where the bullies turn to after school ( ... )

swankivy March 20 2008, 16:09:23 UTC

I laughed really hard at your comment about stamping on their computers and punching them in the genitals. Hehehe.

I'm not sure what they meant by the "not conventionally attractive" comments, but I think I was a lot more offended by the idea that I react the way I do simply because the only guys who approach me must be acting like they're doing me a favor. (???)

Considering the fact that in a way putting so much of myself out there is pretty brave, I'd sure as hell like to see any one of them sum themselves up in such a way and not get mocked for it by SOMEONE. And I agree there's probably so little TO the people who are saying this stuff that they're threatened and insecure when they see someone who's willing to say as much as I do. But noooo, I'm just "self-obsessed." Whatever.

skygawker March 19 2008, 08:28:40 UTC

Wow. People who troll for kicks like that are pathetic. And while I'm aware that this line of thought could lead to a "You're pathetic!" "No, YOU are!" "Nuh-uh, you are more!" type of debate, I think most people would rather be in a world where thoughtful, eloquent people are the majority rather than drunken Internet trolls.

Do they realize they're just the kind of people you're talking about, and that your essay is a response to their attitudes?

Oh, wait, yes they do, and that's why they're trying to tear you down.

Some people are threatened by anyone who dares to be happy while also being different from them.

swankivy March 20 2008, 16:13:45 UTC

Yeah, I definitely think they're "trying to tear me down" because they actually think it's lame to speak your mind the way I do. I hear all the catcalls of "Who CARES???" and "WOW YOU'RE LAME!" but I think it's much better to say what you feel than just get annoyed and not do anything about it. My essays are my way of dealing with these thing so I don't have to carry them around with me. If they don't agree or don't want to read it, it's not there for them ( ... )

skygawker March 22 2008, 14:19:12 UTC

My essays are my way of dealing with these thing so I don't have to carry them around with me. If they don't agree or don't want to read it, it's not there for them.

YES. Exactly. Why rant about something? Because once we've said it, we are free from it. I know my rant about incest fan fiction was not well-received, and I know I could have made it sound less upset, but the fact was that I WAS upset, and now that I've said it, I really do feel loads better. Even given the people who gave me a hard time for it. I don't know exactly why, but somehow it makes all the difference to express these things -- even if jerks out there don't understand. Even if less trollish people don't agree.

shadowfreder March 20 2008, 04:26:17 UTC

Well, you are unconventional and are comfortable with yourself. A lot of people follow the mainstream, and yet are not comfortable with themselves. So they take it out on you instead of learning how to be more comfortable with their own individuality.

swankivy March 20 2008, 13:38:15 UTC

Yeah, and I think a lot of it is mob mentality too. I mentioned this to my friend Robin last night and he told me he's sure that no one would have referred to my pictures as ugly without preconceived notions. And I do think that if you have to ridicule someone because they put a lot of time and care into talking about themselves on a Web page, you probably don't have much to say about yourself.