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r/im14andthisisdeep

InternetExplorer said: 

a fresh face online reacts with disgust to some atrocity online

This model is turned on it's head when you look at Instagrammers, Youtube sheep, Facebook fodder, Tumblrinas, and Tweeters. 

The learning curve of the troll isn't for everyone, and people in communities where they're handled or otherwise devoid of them have no reason to otherwise try to figure them out. If anything it's led to an increase in rule-followers as a few bad eggs insist on stinking up the place over some misplaced sense of ego that feels like closure can only be found behind destruction and "free speech apathy". 

In many cases, knowing how the troll works doesn't make things better, but rather demonstrates a mutual sense of accepting shit-enforcement. 

This is because the offender has became desensitized and is expressing this to the new person who has yet to be initiated to the culture found online. They find the new person's response humorous. In a sense there is wisdom in this for his statement implies that the newb does not understand what is to come.

I find more humor in the "veterans" personally. How they've coped this long shows in their habits like a badge of honor (however much it may not make sense to brandish as one), which isn't as boring when compared to "Hi I'm new, so how does this all work guise?". 

However, this troll is not a wise man for understanding this. For he himself has willingly immersed into a realm outside of physical reality, where the laws of morality and reason flip upside down and personal convictions are subject to zero gravity.

Trolls if they are purely memetic instead of original and self-driven are just 4chan joiners. They're conformist sheep of an even higher order, and insist their views upon other groups as a form of self-validation for their prior pain. 

Typically when they go somewhere, they behave as if they expect to lose the conversation if it's otherwise held mutually and consensual, so they aim to sneak attack their audience by rushing the escalation before it's time. When I see poorly executed trolling it's no better than somewhere between "Pickle Rick" and "Praise Allah" with some recycled scripts they couldn't even think up themselves. 

Even tongue in cheek post-irony that aims to pretend to be like these trolls is better than the actual trolling if it's below enough tiers of originality. 

Within this space, the mind leaps from the body and projects itself into the screen in the form of text, pictures, and symbolism. And with this projection the mind brings with it all of its illnesses and dysfunction.

A poetic way of saying "We're not all the same". 

The reason this is problematic, is that in the real world this dysfunction is forced into check by the fear of consequence. One could lose their job, friends, family, or even a relationship should they openly indulge. The internet strips away these consequences by allowing one infinite identities to assume the role of and vast capacity for deception and obfuscation to occur. The person then becomes liquid ego; a mind borne of the same compounds but ultimately formless, allowing them to shift shape to their desire, poisoning everything they touch with their dangerous mental composition. 

It just "gives a man a mask". We've always had this, but the convenience has stripped away it's creativity and in it's place given us sociological data through repetitions. 

And so, illnesses that were once kept in check are unleashed in their full destructive force on the internet.

Kept in check? They still had subculturalism, and they were even more dedicated to it from it being more "Underground". 

It's simply streamlined and significantly more prolific now, which has had it lose much of it's prior flavor. Even a walk through a kink museum is enough to show the decay of it's culture, and there's countless examples catalogued across most existing subcultures (furries ended up yiffed more than most groups). 

The ill individual is allowed to essentially run rampant and cause an unknowable amount of chaos in their wake. The sociopath can deceive all the more easy when anonymous. The narcissist can cater their grand tale with nothing to disprove it. The schizophrenic can build a universe where their alternative reality is omnipresent.

They all show signs and symptoms, much like book authors. The only way it's truly without affect is through a purely anonymous means (like 8kun), as otherwise most people are ego driven enough to want their signature on something. 

People also can't help but be themselves, even if who they're pretending to be is just an extension of that. It comes from core motivations that overtime show patterns that permeate subtext between the lines. People really do give themselves away, about as much as one might get from a cold read in real life through a different set of clues. 

There are perhaps endless ways the illness can manifest in the digital space and unfortunately, the afflicted are often not self aware. And thus, they create entire communities, cultures, and viral paradigms all rooted within these mental dysfunctions, and they do this without realizing this is the case. In many instances, entire groups of people with the same illness will work together to reinforce their condition unintentionally.

Gangstalking forums have this in spades. 

This can be seen just about in every community online and several prominent manifestations can be noted. A very high profile case of the internet and mental illness working together to a fatal outcome is that of Bianca Devins, a 17 year old female with severe mental disturbances. She sought darkness online to contend with her own addictions and demons and this ultimately led to her murder by an equally troubled individual. The cancel culture throughout the internet as a whole exhibits a mob mentality based on sadism, self righteousness, and destruction. The twitter echo chambers incubate a weak sense of self at the mercy of a collective mob. The 4chan black pill encourages nihilism and surrender in response to deep depression and simmering resentment.

Preachy transition, meh. 

Though some of these cases are politically charged, these issues go above politics to the mind itself and the complexes that fuel the politics. And through these complexes as displayed prominently in each faction's respective domain, it can be easily realized to one of sound mind that perhaps, nobody is right. Individuals who cannot master themselves cannot hope to master society. I'd like to go more in depth with analysis on some of these communities and the common mental dysfunctions I see but for now I'll leave you on this note- 

Lets get real, none of us are going to "master society". At best we'll exploit it for a time, or be given small gifts from it. We're not the next Steve Jobs, you best rip that bandage now. 

For my own notes on forum communities, I often see that it's a matter of power politics. With rules it can limit these interactions, but in turn the people become less themselves in their affect on the site. Without any rules however it hits a more tribal sort of power structure where displays of strength can de/motivate and un/inspire it's userbase to behave in different ways. Without some form of structure there will always be someone there to wreck the place through it's exploits to the point of people leaving, but with too much structure you risk alienating your audience from it's enforcers and can easily create martyrs out of the chaos. 

More often than not, the biggest motivating factors tend to lean on the trope of having "a common enemy". Without it or some means otherwise of "keeping the peace", it's people will inevitably cannibalize as they grow more and more sensitive to each other's cues (social allergy). 

That was well written OP, I enjoyed that.