#like what if i killed myself ... its so annoying and unreal bc its so pervasive and so harmful

[re-velogs]

honestly i think that internet lingo falls into a couple of really major pitfalls that i feel like people tend to just completely uncritically parrot bc they saw it used in what they saw as a funny way once. like for one AAVE is just sort of. constantly appropriated and turned into a joke in a way that causes AAVE to be seen as a non serious/real dialect of english which is so unspeakably racist i really don't what to even tell you if you haven't picked up how much that happens by now.

and also i think the other part is that it tends towards being incredibly ableist (shizoposting, delusional, trauma bonding, infodumping, narcissist) in a way that not only demeans the target of the ableism it also creates a false understanding of what words mean and make it all that much harder for people to recognize and take these things seriously.

like, suddenly, delusional becomes something that's just being in denial about reality, and narcissist becomes some kind of subhuman monster label, and gaslighting becomes indistinguishable from someone lying sometimes