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shinelikethunder"flippant account of 2000s forum drama that was some batshit insane cloak-and-dagger shit but also, ultimately, completely harmless"
like the nutty Hungarian chick who flounced/got banned for being kind of an asshole with a dubious sense of boundaries, and then proceeded to come back under at least three different sockpuppet identities (with elaborate profiles on other sites!), purporting to be an Irish lesbian, a Polish circus performer, and a Berlin cop, all with suspiciously familiar writing styles... no one could prove anything, not even when one of the German regulars tried to chat up the "cop" auf deutsch and failed to elicit a non-babelfished response, until the "Irish lesbian" got her ass busted helpfully pasting search results from images.google.hu
or the clown-on-clown, tween-on-tween, spy-vs-spy hijinks that ensued when some idiot script kiddie got banned, declared all-out vendetta, kept making obvious alt accounts to post grandiose capslocked gloating about how we were all dead meat, and only crawled off with his tail between his legs after an elaborate sting operation to make him think he'd "hacked" a global moderator's account--which in actuality was a newbie account one letter off from the correct username, whose avatar / display name / signature / stars were set up to look identical
or, hell, the ignominious decline of the musical-theater bootleg trading community after it managed to spontaneously reinvent copyright for me but not for thee
this is the kind of low-stakes quality WTFery that fandom just barely ever seems to get anymore, due to whatever combination of social media being a formless hellscape + "moral posturing about painful, deeply unfunny issues of mass injustice" becoming the basic currency of every trivial online-clout pissing contest + Facebook et al eroding the "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog" of it all and bringing widespread credible doxxing risks into the mix. the wank coming out of Discord servers has been approaching forum-drama levels of bizarre and elaborate, but the likelihood of someone getting hurt IRL just seems to be... so much higher at all times. and meanwhile, Twitter is remarkable only in having so much drama and managing to make all of it soul-suckingly unfunny.
like the nutty Hungarian chick who flounced/got banned for being kind of an asshole with a dubious sense of boundaries, and then proceeded to come back under at least three different sockpuppet identities (with elaborate profiles on other sites!), purporting to be an Irish lesbian, a Polish circus performer, and a Berlin cop, all with suspiciously familiar writing styles... no one could prove anything, not even when one of the German regulars tried to chat up the "cop" auf deutsch and failed to elicit a non-babelfished response, until the "Irish lesbian" got her ass busted helpfully pasting search results from images.google.hu
or the clown-on-clown, tween-on-tween, spy-vs-spy hijinks that ensued when some idiot script kiddie got banned, declared all-out vendetta, kept making obvious alt accounts to post grandiose capslocked gloating about how we were all dead meat, and only crawled off with his tail between his legs after an elaborate sting operation to make him think he'd "hacked" a global moderator's account--which in actuality was a newbie account one letter off from the correct username, whose avatar / display name / signature / stars were set up to look identical
or, hell, the ignominious decline of the musical-theater bootleg trading community after it managed to spontaneously reinvent copyright for me but not for thee
this is the kind of low-stakes quality WTFery that fandom just barely ever seems to get anymore, due to whatever combination of social media being a formless hellscape + "moral posturing about painful, deeply unfunny issues of mass injustice" becoming the basic currency of every trivial online-clout pissing contest + Facebook et al eroding the "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog" of it all and bringing widespread credible doxxing risks into the mix. the wank coming out of Discord servers has been approaching forum-drama levels of bizarre and elaborate, but the likelihood of someone getting hurt IRL just seems to be... so much higher at all times. and meanwhile, Twitter is remarkable only in having so much drama and managing to make all of it soul-suckingly unfunny.
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Date: 2021-08-15 13:46 (UTC)At least there’s r/hobbydrama?
But yeah, I suppose the problem isn’t so much the venue as the fact that all wank is now somehow high-stakes and unfunny.
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Date: 2021-08-15 14:26 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-08-15 19:21 (UTC)We will never see the like of the (relatively low-stakes) Snapewives again.
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Date: 2021-08-16 00:12 (UTC)(Okay, maybe I shouldn't go knocking on Satan's door quite yet about Anne Rice drama...)
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Date: 2021-08-16 16:03 (UTC)i ended up having to write a post alerting people to this behavior (for the first time in my life) because this person claimed to have hacked my computer and found child porn, AND they were preying on 18-20 year old. they had... so many sockpuppet accounts. it was insane. i've been oscillating between laughter and horror
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Date: 2021-08-16 17:54 (UTC)Except the fake hacking, that was hilarious. Oh, internet, never change.
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Date: 2021-08-16 19:48 (UTC)