Some of the
angry people who are mailing me claim to be one of the transgender Shredded
Moose-fans who went on a forum-posting spree in early 2014, but not the others.
This runs counter to the general assumption that those posts were all made by
one person.
But then again, all the emails I receive may also be from just one
person who pretends to be different people, a person who may – or may not – be
the early 2014 poster. Who again may or may not be the guy(s) at Shitty
Webcomics.
I was
thinking (too much) about all this when it came to me: on the internet, if
people say the same things, they are for all practical purposes the same
person.
That sounds
really weird, but hear me out:
There are
no actual people on the internet, just the texts and images that people make. There
is no “you” that exists independently from the stuff you post here. You are
what you post. Everything else you may be, is irrelevant.
And if the
stuff you post is so similar to the stuff that 10,000 other people are posting
that your audience has trouble telling the 10,001 of you apart, then all of you
are basically the same person on the internet.
Look at
every internet debate ever: doesn’t the “discussion” tend to come off as just
two binary opposite people screaming at each other? Like in Gamergate: it’s all
a big shouting match between “The Gater” and “The SJW”.
If you butt
into a debate with an opinion somewhere in the middle, your squeaky little
voice will not be heard. Your opinion will only be noted if you join a mob and say
the exact same thing as everyone else in that group, which again renders your
participation in the “debate” completely fucking pointless.
In order to
be part of something that has an impact, you have to give up your individual
ideas and merge seamlessly into a pre-set pattern.
Wait, where
was I going with this?
Yeah, that
was it:
Hellspammers,
don’t bother telling me you’re this person or that person, to me you’re just
Generic Internet Whiner Type 1 or 2, nothing more.
Finally,
here’s a contribution from someone decidedly unique: Mr. Garrison:
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| Well, that says it all, doesn't it. |
