Does anyone else scroll reddit and feel sick at how normalized cyberbullying has become?

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It feels like most non-political posts are sharing something in order to laugh at or humiliate a person. Look what happened to this person, look what this person was wearing, look what this person posted, etc.

I think most people would agree, superficially, that humiliating someone is wrong, yet we just laugh and ridicule strangers CONSTANTLY.

I’m in my 30s and I’m feeling like I’m from a forgotten age where gaining pleasure at someone else’s expense was considered cruel… I had a tough week and seeing how people treat others is so demoralizing.

Comments

  1. MysteryNeighbor Avatar

    Nah though I used to frequent 4chan a lot as a teen so I may just be super desensitized 

  2. SoggyButterscotch961 Avatar

    People online are the worst. But its way more tame than it used to be. I remember going on the Pantera forums back in 1998 (on dialup modem), and you wanna talk about ruthless? Just posting “Pantera sucks b*lls.” Ooo boy, I learned some nice insults as to use in elementary school.

  3. whatsthis1901 Avatar

    No, I don’t see it much. I know better not to go to certain subs or click on certain posts.

  4. JohnHenryMillerTime Avatar

    Look at this little baby being a whiney bitch.

    Get good my friend. Get good. Then you can hate on others and I can personally guarantee you it will fill the hole in your black shriveled heart. Own it.

    Give in to the dark side and embrace dark seid. Antilife is and always has been the way.

  5. blackheartghost426 Avatar

    On reddit? Not really depending on the sub reddit. Now Twitter or x…….you wanna see true social hate for one another, it’s there.