The whole phenomenon of people who are so lonely and disconnected from the world that they have to resort to seeking sympathy from total strangers online is just so sad and pathetic.
It’s like all those Reddit posts of people crying that their family member or pet died. What the fuck? Don’t you people have FRIENDS? Even just ONE? It’s even more pathetic than the thots who show tits so some ugly virgins can post creepy “compliments”.
Friendships are an investment. They require time. They require you to be there for your friends even when you might not normally want to. This is called having connections with people, and human beings evolved to be social creatures because literally apes together strong in the fucking jungle n shiet. It turns out you’re more willing to fight and potentially die for people you actually care about and feel connected to, so these bonds are an important part of the fabric of society.
Social media and internet shit have allowed people to satisfy short term, shallow, empty, meaningless emotional triggers that trick your brain into think you’re connected when you’re not. Like let’s say one of your shitposts takes off and gets thousands of updoots, and you feel like you really resonated with people, but it’s all shallow. None of those people truly gives a shit about you. Or when thots post ass in IG and get hundreds of thousands of followers. None of those people would care if the thot died tomorrow, and some would fap harder.
I’ve spent/wasted a lot of time on Reddit for a few years. I see it as a tool to learn, argue, and find entertainment, but it’s inefficient at all those things.
It’s crazy thinking back to the 80s and 90s when kids didn’t have the internet. You know what we did? We had roving bike or skateboard gangs who just rode around doing nothing. We had huge super soaker battles across the neighborhood with different factions fighting each other. We would go to the pool and just splash each other. We mostly did stupid shit, it was boring as fuck compared to what kids have now, but we had comrades and friends. You knew your neighbors. There was a community.
It’s pathetic on Reddit when people LARP this with these pathetic sympathy beg posts, and it’s even more pathetic when Redditors trick themselves into thinking they’re good people by updooting shit they think makes them virtuous, or writing “you go girl!” when a fat chick posts a selfie, as if it makes them a good person to enable and normalize obesity.