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I saw a few headlines recently that a YouTuber (Mikayla Raines) who saved foxes committed suicide because of cyberbullying. I never watched her channel, but it got me thinking, what is it about anonymity that brings out this evil in people?
Is this evil just always there, and the web provides an outlet to be horrible without consequences?
Is it perhaps actually a minority phenomenon, but when you have a few million subs, just on pure statistics, you will get a vocal group of , basically, insane people?
Mike Tyson apparently once said that "Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it."
And I 100% get this. I try to conduct myself online the way I do irl, but I don't know, more and more these days I am just not bullish on the human race in general!
What do you stackers think?
Is it perhaps actually a minority phenomenon, but when you have a few million subs, just on pure statistics, you will get a vocal group of , basically, insane people?
I think it's this. Social media statistically amplifies fringe voices that most people would never even have encountered prior to social media. It also makes it easier for these fringe personalities to find each other and thus reaffirm and amplify each other.
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And these minority voices are anonymous or pseudonymous
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15 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 16h
Mike Tyson has many good things to say, but I think I he misses this one like he missed Buster. Humans are a bunch of trolls, mostly -- whether they are online or not. Maybe they don't say it to your face, but they troll you in social settings or with bureaucracy or with their troll friends or with politics or whatever. I don't really think the internet changed it much.
The good news is, we are also trolls and can figure out how to build a thriving troll culture -- online or irl.
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Passive aggressive trolls IRL
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I've thought about answering this in multiple ways, and it all comes back to the same destination. How you react to someone else's views is the way.
You will always be criticised by someone doing less than you.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 7h
suicide because of cyberbullying
This is undoubtedly a very unfortunate fact.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think the following:
Here is once again the importance of privacy and anonymodad.
In this era we have been adopted to expose our lives and actions to the eye and opinions of the public.
which is completely harmful.
There are people whose only purpose in social networks is to attack others.
This leads to spread waves of hate and discussions and even violence, or as in this case, influence such a perverse degree that ended up pushing a person to suicide.
Because then something happens, and that is that not everyone is prepared to be public and then hated or attacked at frantic levels (I think none would be prepared for something like that)
I think that the mental state and the will of the person, play a super important role in these situations.
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Mike's right. Most trolls would never say the things they say if it were face to face. Hiding behind screens certainly makes it easier to be cruel.
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I am not saying the husband did it but I don’t believe a word he is saying publicly
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