I realize this may be outside of your experience but social validation does not automatically and exclusively mean comment votes on obscure reddit clones
I get frustrated about my own totally unrelated problems and take it out on people on the internet, some of whom I'm closer to liking than disliking. I have gotten particularly bad on twitter. It's like I can be BEYOND spiteful and hateful and in violation of terms of service or any tier of rules, but if I do so boringly enough, a few sad people clap and turn my rage and foolishness into happy chemicals and that's that. It has all been terrible for my psyche and probably others' too.
I notice 2% of the population because they are fucking people I love.
You notice 50% of the population because they are fucking people you hate.
We are not the same.
There's a lot of mean answers you have nearly walked into there, but without the snark they each boil down to forms of social validation.
I realize this may be outside of your experience but social validation does not automatically and exclusively mean comment votes on obscure reddit clones
Im sorry for being such a dick to you Imp.
I get frustrated about my own totally unrelated problems and take it out on people on the internet, some of whom I'm closer to liking than disliking. I have gotten particularly bad on twitter. It's like I can be BEYOND spiteful and hateful and in violation of terms of service or any tier of rules, but if I do so boringly enough, a few sad people clap and turn my rage and foolishness into happy chemicals and that's that. It has all been terrible for my psyche and probably others' too.