2024-12-29

Getting reply guyed over this post is driving me crazy. The person doesn't matter and it's not like I wasn't rude to them over it. But seeing how they responded exposed so much of how this kind of poster thinks...

Like is it fair to me to yell at someone for saying "Oh that's already a feature, you just have to do it manually"? Even though OBVIOUSLY it's a feature? How else would a bot work if it wasn't? And why would they reply even though the post would exactly be talking about someone like them? No. But it's understandable, I think, even if it's unfair. The person isn't the problem. The fact the person represents thousands of people is the problem.

... I think the fact I was being unfairly rude is actually part of what weirded me out. Because blocking me, telling me to fuck off, dunking on me, whatever. It's not a the random of job of someone on the internet to figure out why I'm mad at them... I didn't get that though.

I got the script.

The script that the kinda lib twitter politic warriors use to defend themselves when arguing with... nazis and republicans and all that shit. "Oh you wouldn't say that to me in real life. Admit you're a coward," followed by the same script when other people in the the thread started calling him out.

... I can't even get mad at that, it's just puzzling like. They had every reason to do whatever to someone yelling at them. That SPECIFIC decision baffles me though, but it seems consistent with what other people have been saying about the random "reply guys" that pop up in bluesky. It's not that they forget their is a person on the other side (this person was trying to leverage that). They forgot the... I don't know, sense of presence. WHY is this person mad at me? Even if to just use that to get back at me. But there is no reflection. I think it's easy to believe someone wouldn't be rude to them in real life because in the moment, the rudeness to them feels random. "You wouldn't randomly yell at someone in public" and like yeah I won't. But if someone I didn't know rudely butted it in with unsolicited advice I'd be kinda rude back. But that doesn't register. They can't even be the problem because when you fight nothing but Sewer-Men on twitter, that's... usually true.

Getting yelled at is a sign that someone is "the bad guy". So what do we do with bad guys? We give them the "the bad guy script". "You wouldn't yell at me IRL"

Like sure you're a person to them, but you're a trope. People who don't have their social media tribe and kinda just have to quickly assess what type of person-shape they're dealing with, like when you decide someone your fighting in ranked in a fighting game is a masher.

I got no ill will for the person. I don't even think they're stupid or anything like that. Sure, social media just trained them wrong, but it's trained a lot of people wrong. I just hate that I keep having to see people like this everywhere. People who aren't using social media to be social. People who queue up to social media like they're playing ranked. Ugh.