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Which links to an Google Drive doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pOhaaFh998B0kyc5Sm4Ihlh...
Which claims to be from a mutual friend and is so fucking sad I couldn't finish reading.
You can’t put any weight into what people on the internet think of you. Especially if you have no real life support to buoy you against the never ending torrent of free abuse available if you go looking for it. Be weird, do your own thing for your own reasons and let that be enough.
>Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him . Previously this comment contained an ill-mannered correction of the mistaken pronoun usage. However, this is completely unnecessary so I will replace it with this message, and a reminder that Near used they/them pronouns. Apologies.
You can’t put any weight into what people on the internet think of you. Especially if you have no real life support to buoy you against the never ending torrent of free abuse available if you go looking for it. Be weird, do your own thing for your own reasons and let that be enough.
Don’t downplay the issue.
I will never understand the type of self-destructive attacks that drive this. I don't agree with but can understand the logic of attacking some public figure, but one of your own? An anti-establishment, anti-intellectual property nerd? The driving force behind one of the most impressive emulators on the planet? Even if you hate LGBT people you can't ignore it in the case of someone who's doing free work that directly…
But ultimately many of us have strong feelings on many things, yet still possess the empathy to care about the well-being of those we disagree with.
In my experience, bullies may use a certain external “vector” to bully others, but they do so because of their own internal issues that they choose to deal with by inflicting pain on others by exploiting those vectors.
In some cases this might be anti-LGBTQ, in others it might be classist, or really any place someone can find and exploit a weakness [1] in someone else.
At that point, it doesn’t matter if the person you’re bullying is somebody “on your side”, because it’s not really about the surface issue to begin with.
Unfortunately it makes situations like this even harder to deal with, because it’s not just a matter of trying to impart empathy on the bully.
[1] which is not to imply any identity is necessarily a weakness, but rather may be something a person struggles with personally and therefore provides an opening for someone else to exploit.
What is the average age of a Kiwi Farms user? Is it possible that these are all just kids with a lot of time trolling people? Of course what happened to Byuu/Near is repugnant and horrible and shouldn't happen to anyone. I just don't understand the mentality of people to do this and not feel remorse.
As for the people running the site, I don't know, they are just cruel.