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An important and not at all obvious PSA about social medi...
5 years ago
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Hey all, hope you are all doing well despite that you all probably feel like you are stuck in purgatory with the ongoing pandemic and with our out-of-touch elected officials screwing just about all of us Millennial and Gen-Z's future at every turn.
Figured I would do a rare PSA that I have been looking for an excuse to do forever that you can safely alt+back, laugh, or wince at.
Anyone that knows me knows that I have detested the frequent grievance-mongering we have all ran across online for a while now since it's insincere, callous, and ultimately a waste of everyone's time.
We all get why we should work together to sterilize shit-stains the Onisions, Boogies & Zaushs of the world, but what really doesn't help is all the times we find out that yet again some semi-prominent individual or group in the dumber side of the community have created yet another anime villain because someone or someone semi-associated with that person said something they found slightly disagreeable or had a minor online exchange that didn’t go as well as they wished.
Often weeks, months, or even years after the fact. And then we come to learn this person failed to DM the individual they disagree with and they didn't bother getting a neutral third person involved to address their issue and instead constructed an attention-seeking narrative and constantly talk behind other's back.
What’s always frustrating, but not really shocking is more often than not, this person actively ignores friendly calls to reason and friendly gestures to address their issues despite them previously spinning a narrative that the person they accused of have the receipts that falsifies it. And then just act shock when people catch on and start brushing them off.
Ultimately these kinds of antics betray the goodwill of others and making the already hellish social media landscape of 2021 slightly worse.
The natural response seems to just be anti-social online, but I always found that response to be a cop-out. I instead think it’s best to just do your thing like nothing happened when you inevitably run across this kind of manipulative behavior and not give in to anyone disingenuous or those they dupe online.
As for the rest of you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rph_1DODXDU
Stay tuned for a few animations. I am slowly getting a hang of the workflow in my spare time.
Figured I would do a rare PSA that I have been looking for an excuse to do forever that you can safely alt+back, laugh, or wince at.
Anyone that knows me knows that I have detested the frequent grievance-mongering we have all ran across online for a while now since it's insincere, callous, and ultimately a waste of everyone's time.
We all get why we should work together to sterilize shit-stains the Onisions, Boogies & Zaushs of the world, but what really doesn't help is all the times we find out that yet again some semi-prominent individual or group in the dumber side of the community have created yet another anime villain because someone or someone semi-associated with that person said something they found slightly disagreeable or had a minor online exchange that didn’t go as well as they wished.
Often weeks, months, or even years after the fact. And then we come to learn this person failed to DM the individual they disagree with and they didn't bother getting a neutral third person involved to address their issue and instead constructed an attention-seeking narrative and constantly talk behind other's back.
What’s always frustrating, but not really shocking is more often than not, this person actively ignores friendly calls to reason and friendly gestures to address their issues despite them previously spinning a narrative that the person they accused of have the receipts that falsifies it. And then just act shock when people catch on and start brushing them off.
Ultimately these kinds of antics betray the goodwill of others and making the already hellish social media landscape of 2021 slightly worse.
The natural response seems to just be anti-social online, but I always found that response to be a cop-out. I instead think it’s best to just do your thing like nothing happened when you inevitably run across this kind of manipulative behavior and not give in to anyone disingenuous or those they dupe online.
As for the rest of you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rph_1DODXDU
Stay tuned for a few animations. I am slowly getting a hang of the workflow in my spare time.
But tl;dr, dudes just been doing some manipulative stuff and being a shitty person, and yeah that gun thing happened to.
I hardly spend time on social media any more because I have other things to do and don't have time to deal with people being children.
I've stopped harboring ill will towards people, and just let the people who cut me out of their lives reach out first. And wouldn't you know it, I'm more happy as a person because of it! Novel concept, I know.