The internet exposes you to so many latent gaslighters who will roll into your comments berating you, outright insulting you, giving you backhanded compliments at best and then when you respond with even mild sarcasm, they'll fly off the handle and act like they're a victim
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Certain communities have an almost signature approach that really boils down to gaslighting: insult you harshly and then claim you’re emotional and “bad faith” if you respond at all to the fact that they’re clearly highly emotionally involved themselves and acting out of rage to be harsh.
Demented! Internet people are unwell!
@DemonMama most of it is insanely obvious projection too
@DemonMama I don't think that Internet people are more unwell than the average person (whom, these days, is pretty unwell).
I think the level of abstraction that the internet provides is a convenient avenue through which people vent without caring about the people on the other side, forgetting, sometimes willingly, sometimes not, that there are, in fact, people behind the screen.