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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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pixl97 wrote: post #92
PixelForg wrote: post #65

This article has been eye opening for me, I too spent a lot of my time on the internet but thankfully never came across the deep end. Made me realize that there's no point in keeping up with memes and stuff and made me think about what actually matters

Eh, this article really touches on nothing new and if I bothered I could find many others like in in the past X00 years based on people that dive head first into things and make it their lives. "I don't want to be 'religious fanatic group' person" , "I don't want to be 'music trend people", ad infinitum. It turns out that people that tend to focus on one subsection of culture are not well rounded and generally boring…

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

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swader999 wrote: post #119
throwayyy479087 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really, really think that negative feedback needs to make a comeback. Anything besides a hugbox counts as bullying now, even when _people desperately need to change_. The people in this article are horror shows who need introspection, not encouragement.

Well it's fair to debate the best way to bring about change that I agree they need. I certainly don't mean to encourage them to continue on this path. Everyone needs a kick in the ass now and then but I would bet money that kind of approach here would just push them further into their shells.

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

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Post by jacooper »

ClassyJacket wrote: post #136
fleddr wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Outside a college campus in California, nowhere else in the world do people ask for pronouns when they meet a person. It's not a normal human interaction.

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Push back.

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

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Post by ryandrake »

bnralt wrote: post #106
throwaway4aday wrote: post #38

I'm pretty sure this generalizes to everything. People who cultivate a persona in any sub-culture or domain seem to be a fish out of water when confronted in a different context. Take someone from the rave scene and plop them down in a microbrewery bar and everyone will gawk at the brightly colored fidgety person that has no idea what to order. Take a polished SV entrepreneur and deposit them in an Idaho roadhouse an…

> People who cultivate a persona in any sub-culture or domain seem to be a fish out of water when confronted in a different context. It's possible to generalize too much: 1. The size of the different context and the extent to which someone feels like a fish out of water matters. It's one thing to say that someone might feel a bit out of place if they were suddenly dropped into an unfamiliar festival in another countr…

There are sub-cultures and there are insular sub-cultures that form someone's entire identity. These Internet people would be a fish out of water anywhere, whereas the Silicon Valley entrepreneur might just be able to blend in, socialize, and find some common ground in that Idaho roadhouse. You need to have at least some kind of personality and be capable of a little flexibility. The subjects of the article were neither.

I'm fully a raging California leftie now, but whenever I go back East to my rural hick home town full of rifle ranges, defunct coal mines, and Trump flags, I can still pass as a local and somehow manage to not irritate everyone around me. You have to read the room and be adaptable. You have to set aside differences and find / focus on the commonalities. This is not dark wizardry, it's just part of being a N-dimensional human being. I didn't see N-dimensional humans in the article.

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

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Post by kwyjibo1230 »

zmxz wrote: post #26
jzellis wrote: post #12

The worst thing about these people isn't that they're shitty edgelords spouting nonsensical gobbledygook about NFTs like they've discovered fire. The worst thing about them is that they're uniformly boring in every conceivable way. Great, some submillennial has made his own version of ZooTV on a dying social network. That must be terribly exciting if you've never seen any media ever that came out before Gossip Girl.…

> they're uniformly boring in every conceivable way This is such concise and brutally accurate way to sum it up, I salute you for this brilliant description. I could not agree more, such a spot-on assertion!

Your comment sounds almost Seuss-like somehow. Partly that description and assertion is a slant rhyme, but it also feels like there's some kind of (un)intentional pentameter going on

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

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Post by photochemsyn »

I'm not sure if the sociological experiment that the author conducted was really immersive enough to produce a good take on the subculture. It's fairly obvious this was intended along the lines of Hunter S. Thompson's "Hell's Angels" - which may have spawned an entire genre of sub-culture literature (I don't know if Thompson really originated it or not, there may be earlier examples, perhaps Zora Neale Hurston). The theme is pretty consistent: a writer inserts self into subculture, gets the full experience, writes magazine articles/books that others can gawk at.

Maybe this particular subculture is just fairly boring and shallow, mostly fabricated by moneyed interests (NFTs...) and there's just not much to say about it? Kind of sad, has the USA turned into a cultural wasteland?

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