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I don’t want to be an internet person

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Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by BWStearns »

I like the piece. The tone kinda gives me the same vibes as Neil Strauss' The Game (vibe heavy anthropology trip into the distasteful, or at least unnerving, subculture).

The part at the very end about the internet people winning is the part that freaks me out (and drives my own middlingly unhealthy doom-scrolling). Just the other day I saw Curtis Yarvin is now some minor Rasputin figure for Peter Thiel, and I couldn't help but think "that lunatic monarchist edgelord from years ago is now influencing where real real political money gets spent?" I don't want to be an internet person, or even pay as much attention as I do, but it feels kind of like even if you don't believe in the internet, it believes in you and it'll eventually show up anyways.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by joemazerino »

I appreciate this article. First, it is well written. Second, it is well-versed.

I know many, many people who have fallen into this trap of being an Internet "coolguy" and are absolute boring, anxious and insecure nerds in meatspace. Ironically they often yearn to connect their irl popularity with their internet personality. It's as if they realize the Internet moves fast with or without them.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by jonasdegendt »

ly3xqhl8g9 wrote: post #51
reaperducer wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

stop using your state-given name on the internet. I'm what country does the state decide what your name is? I thought that was always the province of someone's parents.

And how did your parents became Mr. and Mrs. Smith? In all the countries the "family" name for the hoi polloi was mandated once the state consolidated. Before, your father's grand^x-father, who was a blacksmith, was simply known, for the Dunbar's number of people who knew him, as 'John, the blacksmith', maybe 'John, Mary's son' if there were two Johns around. Look at how most of the Scandinavian "family" names end in…

There's an amusing anecdote that does the rounds about Napoleon mandating a national register in the Netherlands, and the Dutch not taking kindly to that by registering using all kinds of silly names. Unfortunately for them the register stuck and centuries later there's people going through life being called "John Big Buttocks" and such.

Amusing but alas, from when I looked into it it seemed like it was made up.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by WFHRenaissance »

woodruffw wrote: post #10

I thought this sounded familiar, and sure enough[1]. Edit: To make it explicit, which Palladium notably fails to do: this person is a reactionary and has a history of encouraging young girls to commit suicide. [1]: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=founder-of-milady-nft-proje...

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Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by coldtea »

LastTrain wrote: post #34
coldtea wrote: post #11

> Like most online culture, it all feels so profound until you realize that he hasn’t said anything at all. So pretty much like TFA... Which is basically a virtue signalling hit piece (the target even asks "if they're planning to write a hit piece"). "The content of his work would repel, or simply confuse, a traditional viewer" ... and then the author points to a screenshot of a tweet (the "drop out of college, defau…

So clearly all you did was get angry about a couple of lines in the article that were disparaging to Charlie. Did you not read the whole thing and understand the larger point? That Charlie is likely in the small group of people today who are setting the norms for tomorrow?

>So clearly all you did was get angry about a couple of lines in the article that were disparaging to Charlie.

Rather, I read the whole thing, and grasped its tone, intention, and structure.

>That Charlie is likely in the small group of people today who are setting the norms for tomorrow?

Charlie and his "influence" is insignificant to the "norms of tomorrow", and if you take away the jabs at "weirdos" like Charlie from the article, the only thing that remains is a tired old "online vs offline" diatribe, the kind of which has been written 200 times a day since 1997 or so.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by accountforgot »

>his orthopedic sneakers couldn’t touch the floor...

>his tiny frame perched a few feet away on an oversized leather chair...

>a crooked smile that reveals a row of nubby teeth

>disappointing to meet the “worst person on the internet” and find that they are nothing at all

I think the author has missed the point about why Charlie is the way he is, why he has spent so much of his social life online, she did apparently reveal how this Charlie is looked upon by "normal" people in real life through no fault of his own.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by coldtea »

hacym wrote: post #24
coldtea wrote: post #11

> Like most online culture, it all feels so profound until you realize that he hasn’t said anything at all. So pretty much like TFA... Which is basically a virtue signalling hit piece (the target even asks "if they're planning to write a hit piece"). "The content of his work would repel, or simply confuse, a traditional viewer" ... and then the author points to a screenshot of a tweet (the "drop out of college, defau…

You’re weirdly trying to attack the author. Why is that?

Because I don't like reading shallow hit jobs, and I think it's not just sloppy writing, but reflects to their authors too.

Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by jacooper »

throwaway346434 wrote: post #48
boredumb wrote: post #39

The pattern here is not the internet but these people being severely autistic and so they are probably forced to thrive online where they aren't having to deal with eye contact or other social queues that they can't really process. Not even sure what this was meant to be, but it should probably be rewritten to "I don't want to be an autistic person" and it would have read the exact same way. Even down to the preferre…

I found the author's pointed lack of bothering to ask about pronouns when the subject of their investigation posts under different ly gendered pseudonyms; use of the words "normal people" and infiltrating a group only to neg them to be more problematic than anything. The subject of the article might be a real shitheel. But the author doesnt do us any favours by cloaking themselves in being a Voice of the Normal while…

> lack of bothering to ask about pronouns

Because no body actually cares, no body will use your made up pronouns.

> use of the words "normal people" and infiltrating a group only to neg them to be more problematic than anything.

Isn't it obvious that the people in this group are clearly not normal?, they even admit themselves!

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