#i can't believe they are not ragebaiting

[1984brotherhood]

BROO TIKTOK IS CRAZY 😭😭

[bulletbilltime]

Need people to start following this advice more. Stop spreading garbage everywhere. You do not need to share the shitty take. You do not need to share the newest stupid thing the idiot right winger did.

Algorithms are already trying to stoke us into seeing opinions that piss us off. Right winger trolls count on us sharing their shit around to trend and expose people to their shitty opinions.

Don't do their job for them. Don't touch the poop, and especially don't throw poop on the walls and ask your friends to watch it.

(This doesn't apply to things like Palestine btw. The difference there is that awareness of what's going on is important. Meanwhile, [redacted]'s new [redacted] is not something anyone needs to see. The more you talk about it, the bigger of a thing it becomes.)

[mansand]

At some point I wonder if people who respond to obvious ragebait are willfully dumb. Did we forget the whole "Don't feed the troll" commandment they feed everyone the moment they hop on the internet or do they just like getting themselves riled up and angry like "Oh my god. I can't believe you said ten slurs in a row and wished death upon a minority group before calling someone fat. You cant do that" are you for real right now do you think arguing with this person is going to do anything.

This is a sickness I often see on twitter that makes me unfollow people because they'd be replying to inflammatory shit acting all surprised that someone would post that and clogging my feed with innane comments. It's also pervasive in the notes of tumblr posts which is even funnier to me because you'd see people with more sense going "guys please stop feeding the troll" get ignored

[unlimitedbutchworks]

i just read that aita submission and everything about it, especially the asker's reblog additions, make it so obviously transmisogynist ragebait that i genuinely can't believe so many people appear to be taking it fully at face-value. i know people are insanely quick to just believe a hypothetical trans woman is whatever flavor of scary sexual abuser you can imagine, but come on. put on your thinking caps for a minute.

I have bad news to tell you about how willingly the average person, lgbt or not, will drop all higher thought and just stop putting in even a modicum of effort when they realize (subconsciously or not) that the topics on trans women. like it really isnt hard to see… they just don’t care enough to add 1+1. it’s a learned ignorance and they’re happy to stay in their bias

[outrunningthedark]

The overlap of people who still haven’t stopped complaining about the Buckley and Diaz parents getting redemption arcs and the people saying that Chris needs to grow up and forgive Eddie is a little staggering. I’m just saying…

I'm just gonna be straight-forward with it. I think Eddieblr has spent so long 1) falling for ragebait and 2) dismissing anyone who doesn't consider Eddie their fave character that they "forget" he actually does do things worth criticizing in canon.

"I can't believe Helena didn't invite him to the birthday party!" "She was so happy to get him off that call I s2g." I'm sorry, what has Eddie done to show that Chris can trust things are gonna be different when he goes back home? ... ... Exactly.

[serial-unaliver]

i feel like the golden child narrative is prevalent in a lot of fake or ragebait posts because it furthers the narrative of the op being the disadvantaged or misunderstood party, which is sympathetic to a lot of reddit users. on subs like aita the term has also become trendy to use in any sibling or parent-sibling conflicts, even when it does not apply to the situation at all. based on this i genuinely hope it's fake and not someone really believing that.

you can't forget the narrative of "gold digging ex wife who took the fucking kids"

[oscconfessions]

I can't believe this has to be said.

DO. NOT. ENGAGE. CONVERSATIONS. WITH. RAGEBAIT. ACCS.

NO, jacknjellify is not a greedy queerbaiting company that hates gay people.

NO, adam katz is not a zionist and even if he was don't fucking wish for his death.

NO, you're not "class traitors" for supporting both of them and still calling yourself a "leftist".

Just do what you like, keep watching your favorite shows and avoid people who are blatantly trolling and are just trying to make you question your choices.

Now, I'm not saying that you shouldn't be critical of your favorite media, nobody is perfect and media criticism is always accepted, but for the love of G-d PLEASE do not fall for ragebait.

have a good one

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[thesmutgoddess]

I can't even take the Barbie oscar drama seriously. This all feels like one huge manufactured ragebait. Were there were incensed white women smashing their keyboards on twitter? Of course. The same way comic book fans delude themselves into believing anything marvel shits out is oscar worthy. This all would've blown over in a day if mainstream media hadn't validated their cringe for clicks and giggles. Now we have Hilary Clinton commenting on it like "How do you do fellow, Swifties?" It's all so unserious.

[nightowl33art]

Reminder not to fakeclaim people at random lmao

(this is mainly referring to DID/OSDD but can apply to any condition. This is an expanded version of today's tweets)

Reminder that DID/OSDD is very real and there are documented cases! It's not a silly quirky thing, it's something that real people suffer from, myself included.

Someone posting "DID cringe" decided to fakeclaim me earlier today. Because of it, I have things to say.

No, obviously I do not condone harassment of this user. I won't censor on the chance they're a troll-- they've just started this acc and it looks like this could potentially be ragebait. If you wish to do something, report them. Attacking and sending threats does not help.

Either this person >HAS DID and wants to attack fakers, even if it means harming actual DID havers (may include gatekeeping how THEY think DID should look) >They don't have DID and are just gatekeeping DID >They don't think DID is real and everyone with it is cringe and faking (most likely, even based on the @ alone.) >They're an actual troll that wants to just hurt people

Obviously I'm cringe, but fakeclaiming me is another thing entirely. On the chance this person legitimately thinks I'm faking, I've left the above responses. For one, yeah I'm basically recognized medically. I will clarify, there's some minor nuance to it, but it's something I've made sure already to address with multiple professionals I've visited multiple times. Professionals who agree. I would never say I have DID without seeking a professional opinion first, and made sure to withhold such a statement before receiving that opinion. Even today, I still strive to find and work with a specialist to explore this further when I have the opportunity to.

Below's some misc stuff they've posted.

While self-diagnosis CAN be harmful, dangerous, and stupid if done incorrectly, I don't think it should be completely disregarded. Self-dx'ing should be done responsibly and is poor to do without proper, extensive research. As a friend put it, "self diagnosing is fine as long as you use it for self discovery, and keep your mind open to changing or correcting your own diagnosis with new info. If you're wrong? Congrats, you come out with coping mechanisms for whatever it is you do have. If you're right? You've done extensive research into your condition and are educated. The only time self diagnosis is wrong is when you don't actually care about the disorder and just want the label".

This is inherently false. DID and roleplaying are VERY different. It's posts like this that make me believe this user doesn't think it's real. Though the previous use of "fakers" and "self-diagnosis" kinda implies there are real DID-havers lol?? It's true some fakers are just weird, maybe insensitive roleplayers, but these two are not one in the same. (You shouldn't roleplay a mental health condition like that ofc.)

Unless you're a qualified mental health professional, have the training to identify and analyze these things, and you personally know me enough TO diagnose me, you can't legitimately attempt to fakeclaim me, or anyone else.

If you don't have DID, you don't know what it's like either. While it's unclear whether or not this person has it, they don't have a place to make such an assumption. I assume they assume things, because I HIGHLY doubt they spent the time to actually look at my account beyond what I posted for pride. Having amnesia fucking sucks. Having conflicting feelings and thoughts sucks. Having heavy PTSD and barrels of trauma really sucks. These things fuck with me a lot!

It's possible that they have DID, and if so, they're gatekeeping. YOU CAN'T GATEKEEP DID. This happens a lot due to misinformation and poor perceptions. There's no ONE universal way to "have DID." My experiences not looking exactly like another's doesn't mean one of us is a faker.

A system is completely valid if they have a fictional character introject. A very common misconception running around these days is that if someone has fictives/lots of fictives, they're clearly a fake. That's just. NOT true. Systems are introjective by nature, so they take traits from their surroundings. We (as in many people today) use media to escape and cope. Sometimes the dissociative brain finds something in a fictional character that it feels it NEEDS in order to survive. So it takes that.

This is a SUBCONSCIOUS PROCESS, meaning you have no say in what happens. So actually, with how much media we consume these days, fictives should be normal and expected! (Ofc this isn't to say fictives can't still be pulled off by fakers.)

Al is a great example because he didn't ask to resemble Alastor (Hazbin Hotel.) It's actually something he's a bit embarrassed by. He knows how it looks to be an Alastor introject and knows the stigma around the show. He formed because I couldn't handle a situation, My subcon paralleled my situation to Alastor's conflict with Vox and felt Alastor was able to handle it well. So Al was formed to do the same in my place, allowing me to thrive in it instead of shut down. I had to figure this out with time and exploration.

DID does not grant you immunity, and you're still responsible for all actions you perform, whether it's yours or another alter's. DID never should be an excuse to be a shit person like the above, if true, but it should be handled and acknowledged with the respect and understanding deserved.

We're people- your friends and family, not freakshows.

[cherryys]

I remember seeing a tweet saying when 266 was out something along the lines of "crazy that the thing that restored everyone's faith in megumi is yuuji's writing, not megumi's" and I remember thinking that was stupid and it's obviously ragebait, but now. I think they were right. the chapter was never about megumi, it was about yuuji's compassion. and that's fine and well and one of Yuuji's greatest traits, but.. the chapter that was supposedly about megumi, we get nothing from him, nothing substantial anyway. it's still about yuuji and his kindness that it completely overshadows what is supposed to be megumi's character moment. what about megumi? why silence him in such an important moment for him? why not let him talk back to yuuji about what he thinks? what he feels? beyond his ideals and his goals or dreams. and why silence him later on by completely sidelining him in 267 and give us nothing in 268? whatever. can't believe all the haters were right ����‍♀️

[whumpster-fire]

/r/AmITheAsshole comments are a truly incredible microcosm of the most deranged and awful people on the internet validating each other's shittiness. Today I saw a thread from a 21 year old woman whose boyfriend got her a pair of gold earrings in a romantic gift-giving moment and she reacted like "Why would you get me gold earrings? Don't you know I only wear silver?" And, predictably, has probably blown up her relationship now. So, the kind of absurd probably-bullshit ragebait that's pretty much par for the course on AITA.

...And then half the comments section proceeded to take her side and go all "How dare he, what a horrible, thoughtless gift, I can't believe they dated for three years and he somehow 'didn't notice' she only wears silver, women are really expected to show gratitude to men for not even doing the bare minimum" with one comment even saying it was a "red flag" about how the boyfriend didn't care enough about his partner to know she only wore silver. I didn't see the "weaponized incompetence" buzzword before I stopped scrolling but it was probably down there somewhere.

It's breathtaking how AITA commenters can take a reasonable and well intentioned idea like "You don't have to show performative gratitude for shitty half-assed gifts from someone who's clearly not trying" and take it to the most ludicrous extreme of "Treat people like shit for giving you a gift they put thought and effort into if it's not the exact thing you wanted. Basic tact is emotional labor which you don't owe anyone." This isn't a fucking Homer Simpson Bowling Ball Gift, it's a guy who knew his girlfriend liked jewelry buying jewelry as a gift and probably not realizing all her stuff being silver was for reasons of taste and not affordability. There are ways to handle this situation and communicate that gold jewelry is not a great gift going forward that do not involve literally behaving like a cartoon villain. Like that exchange is something I would unironically expect to see in the opening 20 minutes of a Disney movie as a ham-fisted way of establishing to the audience that someone is a total spoiled piece of shit. This is the kind of shit Cruella De Ville would pull if she got a date.

I love that subreddit so much, it's like watching a series of fiery car crashes (the original posts) where sometimes one comes to rest on a railroad crossing and then gets hit by a runaway train full of toxic chemicals (the comments section sometimes deciding to defend the most appalling behavior seemingly at random)

[teaveetamer]

Also also something I thought of while I was making prev post, and something I've been thinking of the past few days since y'know went and tried to put my anon on blast on Twitter.

It's just kind of wild how the death spiral of negativity continues with, again, Certain People. Cuz I mean. Like what on god's green earth possesses you to take random social media posts you don't like and try to blast them all over every platform you could possibly find. What even fuels that kind of misery. I can't even imagine.

I'm trying to not piss in anyone's cornflakes m'dude, at least with regard to the actual meta discussion stuff (happy to piss in your cornflakes all day when it comes to your harassment tho). I intentionally use this blog in a way so that people do not accidentally stumble across my posts. Every time you post a screenshot of one of my posts (or anyone's posts really cuz you do this with everyone) or shit talk my takes it's like you're scooping my piss out of the toilet, dumping it in your own cereal bowl, and then screaming "WOW LOOK AT THIS BITCH OVER HERE PISSING IN MY CORNFLAKES!!! HERE LOOK *sprinkles piss in every direction*"

You must realize that people are eventually going to start noticing that you are the one sprinkling them with piss, right? Your fandom identity is literally just being a curator of highly-specific, tailored ragebait )and then constantly complaining about how you have to keep looking at stuff that baits your rage). Most people wouldn't even know 90% of these posts exist if you didn't keep calling attention to them, and you don't have to look at them if they upset you that much.

At this point I'm genuinely not even mad about him screenshotting multiple posts of mine and posting them elsewhere or shit talking me. I'm honestly just baffled. Like, I refuse to believe he thinks he looks cool at this point given how embarrassing it is.

Clearly it's not earning him a huge fandom presence. I think every single blog I've ever run has had more followers than his twitter, including this one, which was literally made in the midst of Tumblr's deadest fucking userbase period (post NSFW ban, pre-Reddit and Twitter setting themselves on fire) and where I literally never tag anything and intentionally try not to appear in searches.

It can't be because he wants to make sure people avoid me, cuz I've gotten heaps more engagement since he started directing people to actually look at my blog (that's kind of what happens when you scream "HEY LOOK AT THIS! HERE'S THE USERNAME AND LINK!!!" over and over. I assume he's aware that when you keep telling people to look at something they might actually go look at it).

If he was looking to "pwn" me in some sort of epic battle for the heart of the fandom then I hate to break it to you, but anyone who communicates via anime girlie screenshots has already owned themselves harder than anything I could ever hope to do to them.

So like, yeah. Genuinely confused over here. Unless he's just that angry when people disagree with him that it's worth cutting off his nose to spite his face.

[waterparksdrama]

am i the only one who doesn’t find this whole otto thing funny like at all? maybe i’m just boring or whatever, but like what is so funny about saying otto has killed people? and sending it to news articles & photo shopping fake confessions? especially since non-fandom people are being like “wait really?” like what is funny about these implications?

also not to sound like a thousand years old but it’s making me feel like something actually serious might happen to otto like actual questioning or something because “omg it was just an online joke” sometimes gets taken seriously

maybe that’s dramatic and i’m boring idk but i’m like really over every single tweet and tik tok being about this and how far it’s going it’s really not funny lol

the joke is ragebaiting normies (god i can't believe that's the word he's using but we're at that point i guess) but it's not funny on it's own especially when it's made by a bunch of fans who are reactionaries in general and would cut their fingers off if awsten asked them.

i don't think this will really have any dire consequences other than maybe google searches for "waterparks band allegations" skyrocket for the week (a moment in which they are very very lucky that this lineup is just the three of them) and none of the millions of non fans viewing these tiktoks will wanna listen to soulsucker because it already sounds like shit - iz

[choppedpizzaobject]

The blog @baronkelvinisgod is indeed rage bait even though they are trying to ignore me calling it out. Proof so no one falls for it either this time or if the person comes back in the future under a new blog. Don't bother engaging with them.

I am commenting on all their posts because they confessed to me before on their old blog where they did the same ragebait stuff.

Message to them, once again:

Why are you back when you already admitted to me months ago on your old blog that this was indeed a fake trolling attempt? If your stated purpose was indeed to troll antis (using the exact sort of deeply inappropriate language that sort of proves their point, like seriously I am not an anti but the stuff you were posting is inexcusable and makes all proshippers look bad so I question your true intention because you are making the OPPOSITE of your point, don't you know that when satire goes too far it becomes the very thing it is parodying?) then why say you're done since you proved your point and then come back to prove it again? Seems more like you are motivated by amusement and attention. Did you think I would forget or something? Pepperidge Farm remembers 😂

And don't try to say that wasn't you because you're even posting the same custom-made memes from back then and I have proof. I let it go the first time because I believed you were done, but at this point it's just stupid. If you think you can just keep coming back and block this blog so I can't see your posts, this is obviously a throwaway and I have many more under multiple VPNs. Seriously, I gave you the benefit of the doubt before but I'm not letting this happen again. I'm watching. Just let it go.

[toloveisfordreamers]

Can't she send a break up text like is that not the fucking minimum?

Maybe she's NOT sending me a breakup text bec she's not breaking up with me, maybe she's just blocked her mom brother childhood friend for real and me just bec it would be too suspicious to not - hah yes I will grasp at any straws - give my baby back to me she is the light of my LIFE she's my GIRL I love her so much!!!!

I HATE this man this conniving scheming manipulator!!!

You've known my BEST friend in the WORLD, for JUST OVER FOUR MONTHS, and you've convinced her that you both are traumatized and abused by everyone in your lives - you've made her hate and block her mother and brother, less than 7 months after they all lost uncle, uncle who was her rock, you've made her hate and block her childhood friend of almost 25 years - and you've made her hate(please no?) and block me? 10 years I've loved her and she's loved me, the love we have quite literally makes the universe believe in twin flames, soulmates the whole shing-a-ding. We've never doubted each other, we've been so push-pull, so yin-yang, so well slotted together, we've GROWN through so MUCH together - she's literally part of my soul. WHAT have you been saying to her. What have you done. No, what are you doing. I refuse to think of this as completed.

You've told this girl, this kind gentle angel, who has never wanted ANYTHING more in her life than to be loved and to love as she does, to do good in the world, to touch those suffering and heal and help. You've told this girl that I adore beyond worlds, you've told her you want to get married to her and move to the States with her - be her househusband, if i may quote you - all within the first month of meeting her. Ofcourse you'd want that. You'd be the cushy house-husband, while she's a Big Hotshot Doctor, because she's poured years of work, of her life, into this. You're not slick, you're not smart, you're so so transparent for this. she's a hundred thousand times the person you'll ever be. you're a good for nothing liar, (whose backstories never add up (you fell from the 5th floor, pardon me, were THROWN from the 5th floor, as an 11 year old, and there was no police case? I'm a doctor too if you missed that - i work in a hospital. I know how medicolegal cases go. And you're full of Bullshit.) you've apparently forbidden her and her mother from ever contacting your own family (because if they ever do, your stories will unravel maybe?), you and your pathetic instagram page (where all you do is write melodramatic bits of prose for people that failed seventh grade English, and create/respond to ragebait) are never going to achieve even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what she will.

you're only here to piggyback off this girl who's too blinded by your showy declarations of love and your oh-so-smart, and yet empty, turns of phrase. You parasite.

If murder would not ruin my life and that of so many people who love me and are counting on me i think i would have blood on my hands. I want to hit this snake of a man.

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

doing some research on this so you don't have to. non-exhaustive list of accusations along with extremely shallow-dive info on what's going on over there:

a) Rigged Competitions: former employee claims he deliberately manipulates the result of his videos. half true. like basically every game show, he tries to make competitions come out closer to increase dramatic tension, but according to basically everyone who ever worked with him on set who doesn't have active beef, he never influenced the end result itself. b) Illegal Giveaways: you gotta say "no purchase required" or else it's illegal and a lot of youtubers don't figure out until much later that oopsie doodle you can't have giveaways for just your patreon supporters and shit without giving the general public a way to enter. rookie mistake. no ill intent but he definitely did that. if your favorite content creators have done giveaways, odds are good they broke the law too.

c) Hiring a Sex Offender for Content Aimed at Children: .............yeah no he really did that! He hired a guy as a "behind the scenes manager" whose own brother in law went on record saying the guy took a plea deal over sexually assaulting an 11 year old when he was 16. the BIL claims the charges were complete nonsense but their family didn't have the means to defend against the suit and so was forced to take the plea deal which resulted in being an RSO. Up to you if you believe any of that. some of the lies come in where there are actually two sex offenders in the US with the same first and last name, and the guy who wasn't affiliated with the MrBeast channel got his mugshot plastered on the videos. that one did go to trial and the perpetrator was an adult when he assaulted a child. this particular piece of shit is not relevant so it's kind of telling that video essayists are literally putting up a picture of the wrong guy. cmon man, do your basic research.

d) "Tortured" Participants by means of a Solitary Confinement Challenge: he did that too, but it's not a war crime if you're not at war and if you get folks to agree to exactly what they're going to be doing ahead of time, there's not much legal ground to stand on. the Mythbusters did a segment on literal Chinese Water Torture and then had to cut the whole thing short when it turned out it was actually fucking with their staff, even though they agreed to be a part of the testing. haven't seen the video, but if folks are alleging that he made the challenge harder than advertised at the beginning of the video, again, that's shit game show hosts do to "raise the stakes" and participants are fully informed of what's going to happen even if the audience doesn't know. they have the option to back out. still wouldn't get past an ethics review board.

e) Lied About Chocolate Bar Health Effects: idk man he probably did that shit. name me an influencer who hasn't lied about how great their stupid product is. I refuse to look up the "health benefits" of a goddamn chocolate bar with his ugly mug splashed across the packaging. Tell ya what: giving this a pass cause seeing his face would instantly put me off eating chocolate and it's probably for the best if i avoid a sugar binge. health benefits confirmed.

f) Piece of Shit Crypto Bro Scammer: yeah he is that! he got in on crypto to scam people. dude's a grifter. so is everyone else who touches crypto. you know this. i don't have to explain this.

Look, I can't fuckin stand MrBeast either. His personality comes off as oily and smug and arrogant to me, and he openly disrespected one of my favorite youtubers when he had a guest appearance on their show. I just think a lot of the accusations are ragebait exaggerations, so when the gf says only half the accusations are true, she kinda means all of them are true, but only half-truths.

LMFAO