Wow. I thought maybe you were exaggerating a little bit to make it clear how ridiculous it was once you pulled it apart, but no. It was literally that ridiculous from the get-go. I am horrified and yet affected by the giggling that starts when someone is painfully stupid about their action choices.
yup. and keep in mind, the person who collected all those posts about the fake death of kingfrerin was hoping to prove the story was true. that’s how distorted your judgment gets when you’re freaking out.
and also, look how glurge-tastic the writing is on those suicide update posts. it’s straight out of a bad fanfic that gets 1000 “omg feelz, i crey 2 hrd :(” replies, and it works. glurge gets the naive reader so upset that their feelings do the thinking. there’s no room left for doubt, being driven to tears by reading something sad shuts your critical thinking skills down like nobody’s business, and boy do emotional abusers know it.
once the tears dry up, residual doubt is easily suppressed by banging the tumblr culture drum and reminding everyon that not believing people is hate and hate kills.
so the only people who aren’t shouting are the ones who could actually do some good—the ones who know it’s not true and care about others and don’t want to cause further harm.
add a winter vacation where people’s folks are too busy to really pay attention to what they’re doing online, and you’ve got a recipe for the sort of mass hysteria that could nudge a kid who’s already wrestling with self-harm or suicidal thoughts over the edge just by keeping death and suicide and loss on their minds 24/7, let alone convincing them that there's a plague of suicides that they could fall victim to at any minute. Christ!
posters on this tag gave me a lot of shit for “accusing everyone of faking” (which i didn’t do’), but do you know what’s actually a bit more wrong? lying about committing suicide. oh, and shushing people because thinking you may have been fooled makes you feel dumb.
these poor fankids were, and are, sitting ducks. and what about the troubled kids who fear they won’t be believed, now, if they reach out in a crisis, because 8-12 shitbags wanted to pull a social experiment over christmas break? what about all the kids who think anon hate will pour down on them because a bunch of assholes sent themselves mean notes ripping on whatever has their self-esteem low?
it’s as if only us meanie boo boos who didn’t believe the soap opera posts are even thinking about them, how very strange.
anyway, wrongdoing ain’t the fault of the person who tries to stop it. fuck that victim blaming noise. if you think telling the truth is the problem here, please go call your parents and tell them they raised you wrong.
