The fundamental problem I see with lolcow culture is that it’s a subculture filled with people who can’t move on, who can’t let go, and who don’t want to face their problems, choosing instead to drown them in gossip. They leech off the mentally ill because they themselves are mentally ill. These are the people you’ll see making the same mistakes over and over again, wondering why they can’t get
X or
Y, asking, “Why does
X or
Y hate me?” There’s no way
they could possibly be the problem, No, of course not. In their minds,
X or Y is the problem.
And I know there are going to be some people who disagree with me on the “mentally ill” part, but think of it like this:
- You're obsessing over someone else frequently enough that it occupies your process of thought on a constant basis to the point it starts seeping into your daily life.
- You're obsessively archiving someone else's life and trying to play detective all the fucking time.
- You're constantly stirring in negativity both from others and from your self.
- You're constantly seeing a problem with something. A person, a place, a thing. So much to the point it starts negatively impacting your mindset and eventually in turn effect your behavior.
- It's basically all of the worst aspects of the later years in the public school system combined into one place. Making it one of the most cancerous tumors of a subculture.
- The fucking victim mentality with these people.
Is this not the seeds for
BPD escapades?
Is this not some of the things that can cause depression or turn into a full blown disorder if you're not careful? I understand that there is nuance to this conversation but I think the fundamentals of what I have just written still hold truth. I think it's normal to gossip to an extent and not all gossip is a bad thing.
But my fucking god is it annoying when you're around that type of thing all the time. It seems fun/funny when you're online but if someone did the same in person you
know people are gonna start distancing. It can negatively impact your mind in person as much as it can on the internet.
It's childish to be this obsessed over someone else all the time,
View attachment 94056
I think this image sums it up pretty well.
Maybe lolcow culture is a symptom of a wider thing going on with western culture/social media itself right now. The attention economy. Platforms built to trigger dopamine loops. Echo chambers and too safe of safe spaces. That shit artificially induce depression and depression like symptoms. Algorithms pushing
extreme content and views over all else. radicalism and remuneration
. It took problems that we already have had and amplifyed it.
You think an influncer would've been coddled and cooed at in mass for her dumb stunt in a wallmart before this? You think neopronouns would be deemed acceptable? You think harrasing people who work at walmart would be met with praise and adoration. You think people would be this obssessed with valadation from others to this much of an extent? It stifles growth. It makes people stubborn and not willing to learn. It makes you more inclined to act as if you are perpetually in highschool. It has people acting without any sense of shame or empathy 24/7 365.
We are artifically inducing autism and austitic behavior I don't like it.