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Counter-rumour-mongering
7 years ago
'Aluminum to me, aluminium to some. You can shine like silver all you want but you're just aluminum.' Barenaked Ladies, Aluminum
You know the saying 'fight fire with fire,' right?
I gotta spread some word here and hope others do the same. Lately, a friend has fallen under whispered rumour-mongering bullshittery and it has tarnished their reputation with a number of people that use the same hang-out spot. There are folks that have never met my friend before, but now refuse to meet them or talk to them at all because they 'heard ____ was a bad, shitty person.'
Of course, there are two sides to this coin. One one hand, if a good friend of mine warned me away from some asshat, I'd take that advice to heart because I trust my friends. But would I be the person to just flat out refuse to talk to someone based on the opinion of a friend? I hope not. And Im learning this lesson now, because now this good friend of mine is having that same thing happen to them.
This friend is fantastic as a person. Generous, caring, giving. Trusting. Any time they are active in public, they garner praise and people seem to enjoy their presence. And yet now this shit is happening, and theyve taken it so much to heart as to simply sign and log off all social internet activities and stopped coming around to any usual hangouts because they dont want to deal with the shit rumours that were being spread.
So please, if you catch wind of negative rumours of someone, dont just listen blindly and put up a brick wall in front of that persons face. Thats just being an asshole, worse than the shitty person that started the rumours.
And trust me, I want to know who started these current gossipy things. I want to know and have a chat with them to find out why on Earth they would do such a thing to someone else. If you have an issue with someone, dont just spread lies and slander. Fucking TALK to that person, you nimrod. WHY do you hate someone you've only had online interactions with? Are you jealous of their attention? Do you wish you got more time with them? Did they hurt you by signing off one night without saying goodbye? Maybe if you explain yourself, you can come to terms with each other and go your peaceful ways. Or, you can continue to be a shit-speckled fart-sniffer by lurking around in the darkness and spreading lies in hopes of defaming someone that means little to you or your life, you fucking troll.
I gotta spread some word here and hope others do the same. Lately, a friend has fallen under whispered rumour-mongering bullshittery and it has tarnished their reputation with a number of people that use the same hang-out spot. There are folks that have never met my friend before, but now refuse to meet them or talk to them at all because they 'heard ____ was a bad, shitty person.'
Of course, there are two sides to this coin. One one hand, if a good friend of mine warned me away from some asshat, I'd take that advice to heart because I trust my friends. But would I be the person to just flat out refuse to talk to someone based on the opinion of a friend? I hope not. And Im learning this lesson now, because now this good friend of mine is having that same thing happen to them.
This friend is fantastic as a person. Generous, caring, giving. Trusting. Any time they are active in public, they garner praise and people seem to enjoy their presence. And yet now this shit is happening, and theyve taken it so much to heart as to simply sign and log off all social internet activities and stopped coming around to any usual hangouts because they dont want to deal with the shit rumours that were being spread.
So please, if you catch wind of negative rumours of someone, dont just listen blindly and put up a brick wall in front of that persons face. Thats just being an asshole, worse than the shitty person that started the rumours.
And trust me, I want to know who started these current gossipy things. I want to know and have a chat with them to find out why on Earth they would do such a thing to someone else. If you have an issue with someone, dont just spread lies and slander. Fucking TALK to that person, you nimrod. WHY do you hate someone you've only had online interactions with? Are you jealous of their attention? Do you wish you got more time with them? Did they hurt you by signing off one night without saying goodbye? Maybe if you explain yourself, you can come to terms with each other and go your peaceful ways. Or, you can continue to be a shit-speckled fart-sniffer by lurking around in the darkness and spreading lies in hopes of defaming someone that means little to you or your life, you fucking troll.
THEbigcat
~thebigcat
sometimes these things gain crazy amount of traction too. like someone will say something about someone, but not really have any noteworthy information to back it up, and if someone questions whether the accusation is true/waits to see before joining in the mob, you get people shouting "are you seriously supporting x!? you're disgusting!" which is a rather extreme conclusion, and it's entire substance is the assumption that because something negative was said about someone,that it was true or even the way they interpreted the original information.
Onyx
~onyx
OP
Yep. No one will bother to verify information or even ask for more opinions. If ONE person says something, its true, as is everything on the internet. Right?
