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(I put it in the general Off Topic thread with the serious tag because I am not sure if it should be a mature topic or not. There's a high chance that you'll see this message in the mature discussions thread. Also, I fear that this thread may be controversial in some ways, and it's better to stay safe than sorry.)
Let's talk about internet culture. A phenomena that is making me lose faith in humanity.
Let's talk Toxicity - an Internet Plague
Toxicity, it's a serious problem. Now, in case you don't know, toxicity is the quality of being harmful or unpleasant in a pervasive or insidious way, and it's spreading like wildfire. It's like Covid-19, it's slow and rare at first, but increasingly spreads everywhere, accelerating more and more each day. A lot of younger audiences are roaming around the internet nowadays, and they can easily be influenced by this behavior. There is a term called "Bully-victim", which is a bully that was a victim of bullying. Pure bullies are bad apples that appear every once in a while and can be dealt with by education and/or intimidation, but they can start a "Bully-victim" chain or even a "Bully-victim" web. Toxicity is like that. Once struck by toxicity, a person can become toxic as well, causing others to become toxic, leading to a deadly chain. Toxicity consists of cyberbullying, personal attacks, manipulation, and hurtful remarks. There is so much more, but expect to see most toxic qualities to consist in these types. You cannot truly define if somebody is toxic or not unless you know his or her intention is to hurt people. But I still stand my ground, it needs to be stopped.Let's talk about internet culture. A phenomena that is making me lose faith in humanity.
Let's talk Toxicity - an Internet Plague
As a young kid, I used to shrug it off when I see somebody making a hurtful remarks, mainly because at that time social media wasn't such a tyrant, and toxicity was a rare phenomenon back then. But as I grew older, I increasingly noticed these qualities, and eventually it led to me posting this thread. As said earlier, Toxicity is a plague that spreads in an accelerating way. This is why I noticed more trashbags today than before.
Let's talk Cancel Culture - an overly sensitive group of people, easily comparable to a bubble
Like Toxicity, this is also a serious problem. Cancel Culture originated in Hollywood. It was originally meant to cancel celebrities that have done something very wrong or illegal to keep the community pure, however, Cancel Culture has grown out of control. Expect the majority of people partaking Cancel Culture to be overly sensitive, to prove my point, they cancelled Jacksepticeye over using a different font in a twitter post. They cancelled dream over a fake face reveal. They cancelled baby yoda over genocide just because baby yoda wanted to eat unfertilized frog eggs. Plus, he is a FICTIONAL CHARACTER in a movie. People that are part of cancel culture, we'll call them cancelfolks (or canceljerks if you want) tend to actively look-out for moments where a popular person may slip their words and connect them to being a racist or homophobe, heck, maybe even a pedophile (but it's not that big of a deal for this term because everybody can tell when a person is a pedo.) For example, Matpat from Game Theory got cancelled and referred to as "transphobic" or "homophobic" just because he decided to join in on a community joke that was started because of a choice in an exam he made which people can tell their gender via text, in which people jokingly identified as attack helicopters and battle toasters.
Other topics we could discuss about that fits this category:
- Doxing. - Revealing someone's personal/private information out of spite.
- Manipulation. - Using someone's weakness to your advantage.
- Rumors and false accusations. - Calling out someone for doing something that they have not done, or being someone that they are not.
- Flame wars and pointless mass arguing. - Youtube comment sections in a nutshell.
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