{"id":3344,"date":"2018-01-03T00:46:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T00:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattralston.net\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2018-01-03T01:17:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T01:17:49","slug":"trolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/politics\/trolling\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Millennials Now Trolling Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have noticed people on social media are now trolling other trolls.\u00a0The goal is for them to be trolled back and then complain that someone was really mean to them. Perhaps they will take a screenshot of some troll’s rude comment to them, omitting the fact that they initially sought out a reaction, maybe by posting something incendiary or controversial. Negative attention is after all still attention, and represents fleeting evidence that anyone actually gives a shit about the person. The positive kind isn’t happening, so the negative will have to suffice.<\/p>\n
They’re seeking out victimhood so that they can in turn whine about it.<\/p>\n
It is quite pathetic.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen more than a few aspiring bad dayers use screenshots from Tinder to illustrate how they themselves are a beacon of shining light who, due to the presence of evil in the universe, often get fucked with.<\/p>\n
If you’re not familiar with Tinder the way it works is that if you want to engage with someone you swipe right on their profile, which includes a short blurb comprising a failed attempt at cleverness and a few photos of themselves, and if they also swipe right on your profile a match is created, meaning you are able to exchange personalized messages with the person.<\/p>\n
In practice the way this works out is men, typically after failing to generate any female attention at a bar or nightclub or feeling guilty about being too lazy to go to one, log on to the app and begin feverishly swiping right on any photo that looks remotely like a woman between the ages of 17 and 49, figuring they will winnow out any potential errors later on by simply ignoring or “unmatching” them.<\/a><\/p>\n Often times the initial photo of the woman looks passable, but once the match occurs, the man peruses the woman’s additional photos and decides that he would rather just view some online porn.<\/p>\n The women post the most flattering photos of themselves and generate a huge volume of matches from horny men, who in turn send them lewd icebreakers which often include sex proposals and stock photos of their genitals.<\/p>\n The women vastly enjoy the attention while pretending to be perturbed at what even non-Tinder users like myself understand is the entire culture of Tinder. Often times the woman will write something in her blurb such as “not here for hookups” which would be roughly akin to visiting a batting cage and declaring that you were not interested in hitting any balls.<\/p>\n The females will also attempt to levy some power over the men and weed out those who are engaging in a high-volume R selection strategy by making them dance around for their own amusement by writing things such as “make me laugh or I will ignore you” or “I will only respond to interesting messages” or something along those lines.<\/p>\n The men, who in the throes of this desperate moment do not in any way care what an anonymous avatar demands of them, do not bother to read such disclaimers and the women are allowed to get all huffy and pretend they’re deeply offended and sometimes they will take a screenshot of some idiot’s pornographic messages to them in order to illustrate what pigs men are on this fuck app.<\/p>\n