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If you’re an interneter like I am, I’m sure you’ve come across the wonders of anonymity and the mornonism that runs rampant on the internet. People don’t have to face up to any consequences. They sign on to a website with a handle that’s obviously not their name, whirl feces at the rotating device and run out and are fulling capable of functioning as if what they did didn’t just happen. No effect for the cause because the internet allows for such infantile behavior. It makes me wonder just what’s going through the head of the person on the other side of the screen, or should I say what’s not going through their head. Really, is a hobby that dastardly a thought? A game of pick-up at the school yard really that much effort to detach from the computer desk for an hour?
It’s one thing to have the internet loser flame at you for some random thing you post on some random message board. People flit in and out of those at their leisure. It’s another thing to have your writing up and people flame you for it. It happens. Why I have no idea. More than likely too much time on their hands. This happens a lot in fanfiction (although those fanfic authors are wont to distinguish flames from constructive criticism but that’s another post entirely). Frankly, though, a lot of fanfiction makes me want to say just what those flammers are saying but I leave it to them to look like an ass. I just shudder, scrub my brain and move on.
Then there’s the serial fiction. For whatever reason people can just be spiteful and leave tepid reviews simply for the sake of it. For them I recommend knitting. Or perhaps something that doesn’t involve small, pointy spears. Suction cup art. It just makes you wonder, what the hell’s the point? It’s usually obvious when a reviewer is being nasty for the sake of being nasty, especially considering they couldn’t motif their way out of a forest. They’re the ones that leave the reviews that you look at and go, “why bother?” Alas, to truly understand the motives of the anonymous interneter, one must shut off their brain entirely.
