(August 22, 2023 at 6:19 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Yes, that matches what I found too. The truth, obvious though it is, is expressed and discussed with hyperbole and rhetoric often bordering on the comic or the crazy.
There's some good explanations for this, I think. Mostly these are new and online communities, and thus dominated by younger people. And in my experience younger people tend to be more dramatic and exaggerated and more emotional. Online communication also lends itself to hyperbole and dark humour and trolling, and so many truly outrageous things can be said.
Also, there's a lot of very genuine hurt, emotion, and mental illness tied up with being unattractive, being bullied, being rejected, lonely, touch starved, or sexually frustrated. Especially for young men who are in a society which portrays losing virginity and sexual validation as one of the most important things in life, and a key marker of masculinity and success. And there's also a fair few in such communities who are neurodiverse and whose communication skills and social assessments may be skewed.
This is a very eloquent way of describing it. I was going to say it's basically because the community is full of crazy, hormonal, teenage, virgins.
That's not to say I don't empathise with people like that, I'm socially awkward and feel lonely often, I was probably only a few steps away from being a true psycho incel myself.
That's probably why I became so fascinated with the whole thing.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.