I’ve been on a mini quest to try and get my Twitter account banned without doing anything strictly against the ToS and my first idea was to start messing with people who say something completely untrue, then refuse to back down under any circumstances. But that got me thinking, is it okay? I’m not outright insulting/cyber bullying them, more just arguing with them with a little bit of sarcasm.
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I guess instead of bullying them you could agree with them but go into a more extreme and absurd direction than them that they start thinking you are crazy. Like if someone talks about flat earth then agree and say the earth is also filled with holes that leads to portals which is what gives the illusion of the earth being round, and that they are run by celestial beings who were created by tadpoles who ruled over our galaxy billions of years ago before departing into being portal keepers. And that the circles are a lie and that even balls do not exist and are just actually cubes that are operating on another dimension that vibrates so fast the movement gives the illusion of a globe which is an impossibility if you look at the true physics papers written by Einstein that the overlords want to keep hidden from us. And you know this because you have gained access to the third eye and can now see all truths on all planes of reality.
Can you make a community where you do a weekly conspiracy theory based on a few keywords given by the public or something? I would follow that.
Though i agree it could be fun at first, conspiracies are legit dangerous. People are so desperate for meaning, 17% of Americans believe the government is lead by a kabaal of satanic lizard people eating babies and shit like that.
My mom is deep into the rabbit hole of nonsense, and it genuinely consumes her. Nearly all her friends abandoned her, she almost lost her job, and that’s only reinforcing these convictions. If something like January 6th was happening in my country, I bet you, she’d be there. The time conspiracies were harmless fun are gone. They ruin people’s lives.
Damn. It sucks that you are absolutely right. OK let’s not do my previous plan. Sorry to hear about your mom.
Im also sorry to hear about sneezy mcglassfaces mom. The BBS I hung out on always referred to people who always act on “bigger is better” and hated anything unusual/ foreign as “Reptiles” because well reptiles behave the same way. I think we all thought it was clever and funny. Fast forward a few years the place is full of people apparently really believing reptiles in human skin suits are real and control the world. Similar thing i saw happening a few years later with the warhammer community. Talk about people unable to read sarcasm.
I’d read the shit out of it.
Me third!
[Hooded Kermit] Do it.
Be very careful with what you come up with. 4chan does this and it’s done an incredible amount of harm.
The saddest thing is there’s gonna be some idiot, who believes this and starts spouting it of in all seriousness right afterwards.