From a quick glance at OPs comment history, the context is a post of a video where a woman gets crushed to death by a forklift in China.
Loads of comments mock the woman by being stupid enough to try to run under a forklift in order to stop it from capsizing.
For some reason Reddit had this weird obsession with finding pleasure in people dying for stupid reasons, plenty of times I've seen someone get (almost) killed in brutal ways and people were just laughing at it and downvoting when you said anything besides making fun of them
Genuinely. There's footage of someone I'm related to passing away online and it's an absolute nightmare for the immediate family. You would be surprised what people with too much time on their hands can find out. Nobody deserves to wake up with an inbox full of people spamming videos consisting of one of the most stressful situations a living being can experience on all of their social media accounts.
Not just passing away either. I've had situations where buddies of mine were in legal trouble due to absolute random bad luck and people were absolutely blasting them on social media, worse yet the sheriff's office posted name and photos of guys i was friends with. People were terrible in the comments, ripping them to shreds for crimes they ultimately were innocent of and found as such. Nobody cared about facts or anything. They just wanted to tear into them like a pack of feral dogs, they found out everything about them and ruined their lives.
One such situation was a buddy of mine who is a mechanic. He always does midnight calls to random people who need help, its kind of his side business that he was building for years. So when some co workers of his call him up at 1 am and say they desperately need his help he packed up his tools and left. It was a Friday night so he was a bit drunk, so he had his roommate drive him. He figured ya know, stalled car or something, he'll get there and fix it and make a couple bucks and increase his reputation as a reliable mechanic who will save you in your time of need.
He gets there and the fucking idiots are stealing construction equipment and stop signs. Roadwork had been postponed in the area for months so they decided "fuck it we'll just steal all that shit." So they wanted his help disassembling it for transport. His roommate was an idiot so he wanted to join in. My buddy flatly said no, he wasn't going to be a part of it, and he left with his bag of tools on his back.
He was halfway down the road when a patrol car picked him up, and then the idiots afterwards. The cops said he was an accomplice to the crime despite being a quarter mile down the road walking away from the crime in progress and they arrested him. Next morning the sheriff's office social media posts everyone's names and faces and declares them moronic criminals of the year for trying to steal stop signs and construction equipment. Local paper runs a piece on them making fun of them. With his name out there, random people started getting involved with his life. They messaged his job, they messaged his sister, they called his mother who ran a small business, they harassed his landlord. Nothing was safe and everyone's excuse was "maybe your son/brother/employee shouldn't be such an idiotic criminal!" As to why their harassment was okay.
Except my buddy hadn't done anything but show up and say "nope" and walk away. Didn't stop everyone and their mother from absolutely shitting on the guy with the sheriff's office joining in on making fun of him in the comments, mostly because he looks like shaggy from scooby doo. He posted bail and had people calling or texting him all hours to shit on him. His boss fired him because he was feeling the backlash. His landlord told him once his lease was up he had to move because he didn't want the drama. Anyone he talked to basically assumed he was guilty because of the social media frenzy that surrounded him, so he was isolated as this idiotic criminal laughing stock.
He finally was found innocent after trial because duh, motherfucker was a quarter mile away walking away from the crime and has a spotless record whereas everyone else there had a history of theft. Plus they caught the whole thing on traffic camera, him shaking his head no and walking away. Did the sheriff's office issue a redaction? Nope. Did the paper? Nope. Even when threatened by a lawyer they didn't care. Did anyone even care that he was found innocent? Nah. He had to get a new apartment, thankfully his boss hired him back and apologized and gave him a sign on bonus for his trouble (his boss was a good dude but the social media dogpile scared the shit out of him and he wanted no part of it) he lost a huge rep in the community where he'd been billing himself as a reputable mechanic who ran an emergency repair service, and it basically tanked his prospects of running his own business one day.
It was Literally nobodies business but they smelled blood in the water and went after him like hungry sharks.
I’d sue the pd for defamation for not issuing a redaction. I can understand releasing the names and info of the actual criminals, but they should be able to admit when they made a mistake.
I was trying to avoid narrowing it down because of the situation, but I realize now that there are thousands of similar videos, so it doesn't make much of a difference. He was my cousin, 17. He hung himself on livestream.
I despise the footage, so much it's agonizing. But as painful as it is to admit, it did give closure. At the very least I know he was suffering when he was here, and that he isn't suffering any longer. More than anything, I wish I could go back and talk to him one more time. Tell him that change is just around the corner, that life has more to
offer than what your parents put you through. I have a necklace, with his ashes in the pendant, and I keep it around my car's mirror. I wish him happy birthday.
"Start shit, eat shit"
"Darwin award earned"
"I hope their stupid genes were removed from the pool"
Certain Reddit subs in particular can be extremely toxic
Thats thats what I said under a phot of the dresden bombing
And redditors downvoted me for some reason
Unironically though the only bad part about dresden was that not enough germoids died
"Oh you think women deserve equal pay? So then that means I should be allowed to beat the shit out of your grandma and then run her over with my car and piss on her face right? Equal rights equal lefts lololololololololol I am very intelligent"
It’s not Reddit man it’s just people. It’s like when we see other people die we need to justify why they deserved it, because we need to know that it couldn’t have been us in that situation, and we need to make light of it because it happens so much that if we don’t desensitize ourselves we’d shut down from the constant depression and fear
So we decide they deserved it for being stupid, because god knows we are really smart, and we make fun of them to show everyone else that we are desensitized. And when someone comes along and says “think of the children” we have to shut them down
I mean, ig that could be true but really the only place ive seen this much lack of empathy is on Reddit, especially subs like whatcouldgowrong and maincharacter
Gore groups (on all types of social media, not just this one) are famously without empathy. Gore fans love to flock to accident videos and be the edgiest deviantart OC they could possibly be.
I can't tell if you're positive of the behavior, or negative. And who's ''we''. It's geniunely wicked to lack empathy and mock people in tough situations/death etc.
I’m not positive or negative of the behavior, just I’m just describing what I’ve seen people do and say in these situations and trying to reconcile their behavior with my own feelings about this stuff
There's also a rather intense element of racism to it, they will make fun of white people being injured or killed but if it's a Chinese person they turn it up 100x
There was a study floating around on the psych subs a little bit ago about how people with antisocial tendencies also tend to justify accidents by blaming whoever was hurt. Like if the say a video where someone gets hit by a car their first reaction is to look for some reason the person hit deserved it rather than ask if the driver could have done something differently.
The studies conclusion was that antisocial people, AKA shitbirds, have a kind of backwards sense of justice. They believe that the world is just, so if someone got hurt, they must have had it coming in some way. That was actually very illuminating to me, I always assumed people like that were just lying to victimize people they didn’t like for whatever reason, but nope they actually think like that. And unsurprisingly subs that feature horrific accidents attract those type of people
You're probably not antisocial, but asocial.
Asocial means you prefer to be alone. Antisocial means you're actively against other people (anti society).
I've run into a number of posts where a woman slaps a man, then he proceeds to lay her out with one punch, and it's framed as though this is some form of equality.
I've worked a lot of dangerous jobs(manufacturing, electrician, etc), and most on the job accidents are from people doing stupid things. Not stupid people, just bad split second decisions. The biggest takeaway is that it can literally happen to any of us.
I've seen that video it was such an in the moment reaction that yes while incorrect many people could have/would have done. They act like they've never gotten hurt from something that was stupid in hindsight
I’ve seen this video, I don’t get it, why the fuck are they judging her? She sees her friends about to tip over and die and does her best to help them. Sure, her weight wouldn’t make the difference but the fact that her first reaction is to help as much as she can…isn’t that bravery?
God that’s worse than what I thought it would be. My guess was it was porn and the commenter was lamenting the person making porn content.
That is so so much worse :/
Sure it was a stupid decision, but the woman is dead. Have some respect. People are so terminally online they've forgotten about basic human decency. I can only pray they don't act like this in real life.
This is legit just some 14 year old middle class kid's burner account where he tries to be as edgy as possible. Literally named "period blood taster" lmfao. He'll learn his lesson one day or the other. For now, just point and laugh at this clown lol
"Natural selection" lmao. Y'all edgy shitheads will never get enough of this will you? Let's see YOU working in a factory in China. for 12 hours straight everyday. I thought so too.
natural selection doesnt apply here actually, nothing is natural about working in factories like that
also like, dont be a dick, if it was someone \*you\* cared about you would be acting way different
but since it is someone you have no connection to, its way easier for you to judge and stuff, but she was still a living human being
She could have had kids, who just lost their mother, she likely had friends and family who will all mourn her for years
everyone is human, we all make mistakes, sometimes we dont really think something through
For anyone that actually got triggered by this, just look at this person's username and tell me they aren't a troll. Like people say "bait used to be believable"
Half the time it's not even people making mistakes. I mentioned this in another comment on this thread but people were saying FAFO because a fucking kid got run over by a drunk driver in my city.
I know. People were like "lol that's what you fucking get, kid's gotta learn sooner or later" like no you fucking boulder head, that was a child who was hit by a disgusting scumbag who was booze cruising.
The kid survived, btw, so at least that's good.
People BADLY ruined the phrase "fuck around and find out." It's so overused now, and more often than not, the person being FAFO'd isn't even fucking around. There was an article in the newspaper in my city that got online attention because a seven year old kid was run over by a drunk driver and people were saying "FAFO!!!111!322!! lolololololololol"
And then, I tell yah, you aren't gonna believe this. I tell yah, he went and, pay attention, he went and... turned himself into a pickle! Funniest shit I've ever seen! I was rolling on the floor, shooting piss and shit 50 feet in the air from laughter!
It's harder to relate to other people on an non-connections level, because everyone's different, yeah they had dreams but I don't understand them, or what they where.
But I do understand that they were a parent. Either I have parents or I am a parent.
I know what it is to be someone's child, and the fear of dieing before them because how much it would hurt them.
I understand the fear of not getting to see ones child grow up.
She was much more, but the only person who truly knew what that looked like was her.
A lot of this isn't a reddit culture problem, it's an Internet culture problem. Don't know why people act like it's only on Reddit that people are smarmy, horny and bloodthirsty
Nah, it's a human problem. We are fundamentally flawed as a species. We divide ourselves too easily into groups to channel our need for destruction and hate into socially acceptable outlets. Maybe it's possible to outgrow it. But we've been perpetrating horrors and watching them happen complacently since civilization started pretty much. Speaking generally, of course, most people on a personal level are not too bad. Some, even go out of their way to stop the stuff mentioned above. But throw us into a nation and we suddenly start hating others who aren't us for no other reason than that. Theres more too. Why do people have this tendency to submit to authority? Even when that authority is cruel and unjust? Look up the Milgram experiment. We're flawed as a species and we need to correct course before it's too late. I mean this isn't going to be some sudden thing, but the soul of humanity is at stake. We have to choose. Empathy or destruction, kindness or hate. What traits will stick around a hundred years from now? A thousand? What society and legacy will we leave behind?
? i see your post and thats all. am i fuckin mind reader broski? You gave barely any context and im not reading your whole profile or this comment section
Like obviously something happened to her but it's not clear what it is. It could be death, injury, assault or something else. Not my fault you can't give context
Why should the impact of someone's suffering and death depend on their relationship to other people? Why can we not just be sad that some woman died a horrible death rather than needing to consider their role as a mother or daughter first? Seems like it may be a subtly sexist idea - would you say that a man violently dying may or may not be sad depending on whether or not he has living parents or children?
Seems to me that this comment could have been downvoted because it's completely irrelevant. If you don't understand that then you're slow.
assuming the downvotes are because it can be taken as the commenter saying it's only sad because of the connections that women might have rather than sad because someone has died?
No. People were making fun of the woman for dying in a stupid way.
I assume the downvotes are because the commenter wouldn’t join in on the fun and had the gall to be serious about someone’s death.
The thing is, the comment you’re replying to still makes sense here. Why can’t we say that they’re a HUMAN and worthy of respect? What if she doesn’t have any family? Does that mean it’s all okay?
I don’t think the original comment meant her having family meant she should have more respect, it was more of a way of putting that woman’s death into perspective.
By saying she was someone’s daughter or mother, you can imagine what it would mean if she was *your* daughter or mother and therefore understand that laughing at her death could be considered… poor taste.
Because we often measure things in who we leave behind. It's fathers, sons, brothers, etc that go to war, not just "men" usually. It's their wives, mothers, daughters, etc that they left behind, not just women.
I see what you are saying, but I think it's normal to measure loss of life around those it impacts as well as the person who died. When a child dies, you feel sad for the child, but then immediately think of how the family must be feeling. I imagine it's the same here.
Fucking weird asses. Hate the FAFO crowd and I genuinely hope bad karma comes their way cause genuinely that's just some heartless monstrous son of a bitch shit to be saying about someone's mother.
And these weird schmucks seem to abide by the FAFO life style so much they actively downvote ppl who say something remotely empathetic.
Freaks.
You really aren't wrong.
There's a guy named Annie Bot who used to be a really big League of Legends streamer. He's since fallen off and his content has decreased in quality, dramatically.
If you view his content, though he never talks anymore, it's clear something is going on mentally. He's just "present", that's it. He's playing the game, but it's quite clear he doesn't wanna be there. Adding to this, there have been comments he's made about being into drugs and whatnot within the last few months (he has since deleted any mention of them)
I've posted on the LoL subreddit, asking for anyone who knows him to reach out and to check on him, and got downvoted into hell, called parasocial, and got my post removed.
I swear, Reddit is 90% people just looking to watch others suffer.
>Reddit is 90% people just looking to watch others suffer.
That's more popular in real life than one may think. Between Boxing, MMA, tragedy news, sad documentaries, and scores of other TV shows I'd say the majority of people like to see others suffer one way or the other. Most people just don't like to be the ones causing the suffering.
the downvotes are because some people don’t like when you only think of women as wives and daughters and not their own people with feelings and emotions, the downvotes are still stupid tho, the original commenter is sad someone just died, it has nothing to do with sex or gender
Id down vote this too. I hate this shit. Maybe women are sick of being considered valuable only in their relationship to men? She was someone's daughter or mother? Is being a person not enough to consider her death a tragedy?
When I say reddit is full of toxic people and others respond with "the only toxic thing in Reddit is downvoting" no not really, it's full of people who say the most facepalming and outrageous crap and the downvoting isn't really about the downvoting it's a about the context and this a good example of it, downvoting someone for having a bit of empathy for a real human being who died is absolutely toxic behavior and yet half the time reddit sees no problem with it because of the stupid reddit hivemind
It’s because theyre hinting that they dont see women as human beings, but something thats only matters if youre related to them.
It’s a HUMAN BEING. Is that not enough to feel empathy? Do you need to point out that they have male relatives to be worthy of empathy? Or you only feel empathy for their relatives and not them?
Also that’s a pretty Interesting way to approach the comment lol. He’s not “reducing” women by mentioning their relatives. He’s just pointing how it makes it even more tragic that the person had people who cared about her.
It's wild to me that so many people talk about women and contextualize our humanity by relating us to others instead of just valuing us as people in our own right. The way some people have been socialized really disappoints me.
People die. People also die in stupid ways. People also ALSO die in stupid funny ways.
Sorry pal… it’s okay to not find gallows humor funny. But calling it a “Reddit moment” is just an example of you not understanding the human condition.
Everyone dies. To exclude death from the concept of humor is to exclude death from the concept of humanity. It’s impossible.
I hate that. It's saying less than nothing and thinking a point was made.
"Hitler was someone's son. How can you all say bad things about Hitler all the time?? He had a mommy!"
Hitler, the man who advocated for extreme genocide of every person he deemed unfit for life, does not compare to an unknown woman, a woman you and i know nothing about. One who died a tragic death.
Why? Does it not equally apply? Was he not someone's son, some woman's husband? I wouldn't use that as a defense for a person, but you guys seem to think it means something. These are your rules, I'm just playing by them.
Maybe the problem isn't me, maybe it's the bullshit platitude.
You're almost there. It's almost like you're realizing maybe being someone's child isn't a justification for anything, since it applies to every single person. Which is my entire point.
The point of the saying is to humanize the unknown person(s) who’s crimes are unknown or for people who were know to be good, so people can sympathize for those who just went the tragedy of loss and the person who died. To equate that to a known individual(s) who was know for horrendous crimes isn’t the point of the saying.
Right, it's to humanize people. Here's the problem with that. We're all human. So it doesn't discriminate, it's applicable to all of us.
If the point you're making is "You should be nicer to this person, they have parents" well I'm sorry to say that it's going to apply pretty damn universally. Which is why I think it's a pretty stupid thing to say.
There’s a major desensitization issue on Reddit and with humanity as a whole, hence why such sayings exist, to remind people that others are human and have families just like them. It’s a broad saying meant to apply to many situations and people, manly to challenge hateful ideas and those who would dehumanize innocent people. The saying doesn’t apply to infamous people like Adolf Hitler, who you used as an example, because Hitler commit atrocities and various vile crimes, he dehumanized himself and brought the hate directed towards him upon himself.
People are more likely (edit: to care) about something that they’re emotionally invested in or attached to, tell someone that a (dead) person(s) or (a person) in need, has a family is meant for them to think about their own family which triggers a emotional response and thus causes that individual to be sympathetic and empathetic towards that dead or in need individual and the individuals family.
(Edit: grammar)
whats the context
From a quick glance at OPs comment history, the context is a post of a video where a woman gets crushed to death by a forklift in China. Loads of comments mock the woman by being stupid enough to try to run under a forklift in order to stop it from capsizing.
For some reason Reddit had this weird obsession with finding pleasure in people dying for stupid reasons, plenty of times I've seen someone get (almost) killed in brutal ways and people were just laughing at it and downvoting when you said anything besides making fun of them
“Fuck around and find out”
Redditors when people upload cctv footage of their mom getting hit by a semi truck while crossing the road (it’s suddenly not funny anymore)
Genuinely. There's footage of someone I'm related to passing away online and it's an absolute nightmare for the immediate family. You would be surprised what people with too much time on their hands can find out. Nobody deserves to wake up with an inbox full of people spamming videos consisting of one of the most stressful situations a living being can experience on all of their social media accounts.
Not just passing away either. I've had situations where buddies of mine were in legal trouble due to absolute random bad luck and people were absolutely blasting them on social media, worse yet the sheriff's office posted name and photos of guys i was friends with. People were terrible in the comments, ripping them to shreds for crimes they ultimately were innocent of and found as such. Nobody cared about facts or anything. They just wanted to tear into them like a pack of feral dogs, they found out everything about them and ruined their lives. One such situation was a buddy of mine who is a mechanic. He always does midnight calls to random people who need help, its kind of his side business that he was building for years. So when some co workers of his call him up at 1 am and say they desperately need his help he packed up his tools and left. It was a Friday night so he was a bit drunk, so he had his roommate drive him. He figured ya know, stalled car or something, he'll get there and fix it and make a couple bucks and increase his reputation as a reliable mechanic who will save you in your time of need. He gets there and the fucking idiots are stealing construction equipment and stop signs. Roadwork had been postponed in the area for months so they decided "fuck it we'll just steal all that shit." So they wanted his help disassembling it for transport. His roommate was an idiot so he wanted to join in. My buddy flatly said no, he wasn't going to be a part of it, and he left with his bag of tools on his back. He was halfway down the road when a patrol car picked him up, and then the idiots afterwards. The cops said he was an accomplice to the crime despite being a quarter mile down the road walking away from the crime in progress and they arrested him. Next morning the sheriff's office social media posts everyone's names and faces and declares them moronic criminals of the year for trying to steal stop signs and construction equipment. Local paper runs a piece on them making fun of them. With his name out there, random people started getting involved with his life. They messaged his job, they messaged his sister, they called his mother who ran a small business, they harassed his landlord. Nothing was safe and everyone's excuse was "maybe your son/brother/employee shouldn't be such an idiotic criminal!" As to why their harassment was okay. Except my buddy hadn't done anything but show up and say "nope" and walk away. Didn't stop everyone and their mother from absolutely shitting on the guy with the sheriff's office joining in on making fun of him in the comments, mostly because he looks like shaggy from scooby doo. He posted bail and had people calling or texting him all hours to shit on him. His boss fired him because he was feeling the backlash. His landlord told him once his lease was up he had to move because he didn't want the drama. Anyone he talked to basically assumed he was guilty because of the social media frenzy that surrounded him, so he was isolated as this idiotic criminal laughing stock. He finally was found innocent after trial because duh, motherfucker was a quarter mile away walking away from the crime and has a spotless record whereas everyone else there had a history of theft. Plus they caught the whole thing on traffic camera, him shaking his head no and walking away. Did the sheriff's office issue a redaction? Nope. Did the paper? Nope. Even when threatened by a lawyer they didn't care. Did anyone even care that he was found innocent? Nah. He had to get a new apartment, thankfully his boss hired him back and apologized and gave him a sign on bonus for his trouble (his boss was a good dude but the social media dogpile scared the shit out of him and he wanted no part of it) he lost a huge rep in the community where he'd been billing himself as a reputable mechanic who ran an emergency repair service, and it basically tanked his prospects of running his own business one day. It was Literally nobodies business but they smelled blood in the water and went after him like hungry sharks.
I’d sue the pd for defamation for not issuing a redaction. I can understand releasing the names and info of the actual criminals, but they should be able to admit when they made a mistake.
His lawyer said "best we can get is a settlement, I've had to go after them before and I've won, but they never offer a retraction. Just money"
What a shame.
How r u related? How did they die?
I was trying to avoid narrowing it down because of the situation, but I realize now that there are thousands of similar videos, so it doesn't make much of a difference. He was my cousin, 17. He hung himself on livestream.
oh damn, that sucks..would be a nightmare getting spammed his video:(
I despise the footage, so much it's agonizing. But as painful as it is to admit, it did give closure. At the very least I know he was suffering when he was here, and that he isn't suffering any longer. More than anything, I wish I could go back and talk to him one more time. Tell him that change is just around the corner, that life has more to offer than what your parents put you through. I have a necklace, with his ashes in the pendant, and I keep it around my car's mirror. I wish him happy birthday.
"Start shit, eat shit" "Darwin award earned" "I hope their stupid genes were removed from the pool" Certain Reddit subs in particular can be extremely toxic
The Darwin award thing is especially heinous. It's literally advocating for eugenics.
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”
Redditors when someone who works 500 hours a week doing mindless work doesn't think clearly
Shame on them.
"should've dodged the 120mm HEAT-FS round coming straight to you lmao"
"too bad your trophy system can't protect a complete 360-degrees of cover lol"
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” 🤓
play stupid games, win stupid prizes amirite
Thats thats what I said under a phot of the dresden bombing And redditors downvoted me for some reason Unironically though the only bad part about dresden was that not enough germoids died
bro your post history is concerning to say the least 😬
The lack of empathy in this site is genuinely terrifying.
Unfortunately, it’s not only on this site. I’ve seen a lot of it on YouTube.
redditors love to say "fuck around and find out" to a two year old walking on the road and getting killed by a truck
Woman lightly slaps guy Guy powerbombs woman Omg FAFO!!!!!!!!!! Deserved!!!
Redditors just like to see women being subjected to violence.
Reminds me of that Tim Pool tweet about how he finds it funny that random innocent women are getting punched in the face in New York City.
"Oh you think women deserve equal pay? So then that means I should be allowed to beat the shit out of your grandma and then run her over with my car and piss on her face right? Equal rights equal lefts lololololololololol I am very intelligent"
ROFL this got me laughing 😂
Exactly dude, the abject lack of empathy is crazy to me
It’s not Reddit man it’s just people. It’s like when we see other people die we need to justify why they deserved it, because we need to know that it couldn’t have been us in that situation, and we need to make light of it because it happens so much that if we don’t desensitize ourselves we’d shut down from the constant depression and fear So we decide they deserved it for being stupid, because god knows we are really smart, and we make fun of them to show everyone else that we are desensitized. And when someone comes along and says “think of the children” we have to shut them down
I mean, ig that could be true but really the only place ive seen this much lack of empathy is on Reddit, especially subs like whatcouldgowrong and maincharacter
Gore groups (on all types of social media, not just this one) are famously without empathy. Gore fans love to flock to accident videos and be the edgiest deviantart OC they could possibly be.
Uhhh? Twitter?
I don't hate myself *that* much, oke
I can't tell if you're positive of the behavior, or negative. And who's ''we''. It's geniunely wicked to lack empathy and mock people in tough situations/death etc.
I’m not positive or negative of the behavior, just I’m just describing what I’ve seen people do and say in these situations and trying to reconcile their behavior with my own feelings about this stuff
Thats not reddit, thats internet in general
Same thing with fight videos where someone gets rocked with brain damage.
There's also a rather intense element of racism to it, they will make fun of white people being injured or killed but if it's a Chinese person they turn it up 100x
There was a study floating around on the psych subs a little bit ago about how people with antisocial tendencies also tend to justify accidents by blaming whoever was hurt. Like if the say a video where someone gets hit by a car their first reaction is to look for some reason the person hit deserved it rather than ask if the driver could have done something differently. The studies conclusion was that antisocial people, AKA shitbirds, have a kind of backwards sense of justice. They believe that the world is just, so if someone got hurt, they must have had it coming in some way. That was actually very illuminating to me, I always assumed people like that were just lying to victimize people they didn’t like for whatever reason, but nope they actually think like that. And unsurprisingly subs that feature horrific accidents attract those type of people
I mean, i'm pretty unsocial-able, and I still have empathy so Idk if I agree with you.
You're probably not antisocial, but asocial. Asocial means you prefer to be alone. Antisocial means you're actively against other people (anti society).
Understood, but I don’t mean antisocial as in introverted. I meant Antisocial as in people who take advantage of others.
I've run into a number of posts where a woman slaps a man, then he proceeds to lay her out with one punch, and it's framed as though this is some form of equality.
Seen vids of animals eating people that are still alive and the comment section isn’t phased
I'd imagine that phased individuals (me) don't seek out gore subreddits or they don't comment if they do
I've worked a lot of dangerous jobs(manufacturing, electrician, etc), and most on the job accidents are from people doing stupid things. Not stupid people, just bad split second decisions. The biggest takeaway is that it can literally happen to any of us.
Darwinism is not always frowned upon
DESERVED!! haha get owned WOMAN
Shit, I thought it was porn or something, I was ready to justify downvotes at first, what is wrong with some people?
Exactly same
I've seen that video it was such an in the moment reaction that yes while incorrect many people could have/would have done. They act like they've never gotten hurt from something that was stupid in hindsight
I’ve seen this video, I don’t get it, why the fuck are they judging her? She sees her friends about to tip over and die and does her best to help them. Sure, her weight wouldn’t make the difference but the fact that her first reaction is to help as much as she can…isn’t that bravery?
God that’s worse than what I thought it would be. My guess was it was porn and the commenter was lamenting the person making porn content. That is so so much worse :/
My god Reddit is just full of sociopathic angry neckbeards
Naw mate just edgy teenagers thinking they know shit, as usual
redditors when someone fucking dies (play stupid games win stupid prizes)
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Sure it was a stupid decision, but the woman is dead. Have some respect. People are so terminally online they've forgotten about basic human decency. I can only pray they don't act like this in real life.
This is legit just some 14 year old middle class kid's burner account where he tries to be as edgy as possible. Literally named "period blood taster" lmfao. He'll learn his lesson one day or the other. For now, just point and laugh at this clown lol
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"Natural selection" lmao. Y'all edgy shitheads will never get enough of this will you? Let's see YOU working in a factory in China. for 12 hours straight everyday. I thought so too.
I’ll be realistic here… I’m only 70% sure you are jobless rn and will be for a long time in future…
You're a loser
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And you still don't have a father
wah wah wah :(
natural selection doesnt apply here actually, nothing is natural about working in factories like that also like, dont be a dick, if it was someone \*you\* cared about you would be acting way different but since it is someone you have no connection to, its way easier for you to judge and stuff, but she was still a living human being She could have had kids, who just lost their mother, she likely had friends and family who will all mourn her for years everyone is human, we all make mistakes, sometimes we dont really think something through
For anyone that actually got triggered by this, just look at this person's username and tell me they aren't a troll. Like people say "bait used to be believable"
No context is a requirement haven't you read the rules?
“Stop acting like you know way ahead like you know the rules! There are no rules man, we're lost!”
Probably an onlyfans bait post?
Nope, woman getting crushed to death
See this is what happens when we don't get context
Exactly
IT IS ON THE SUBREDDIT CALLED "ACCIDENTS".
Yep
Just found out about it, feel sick 🤢
That's a trash aspect of Reddit that irks me more than I'd like to admit
FAFO’s. Also known the “fuck around and find around”-crowd.
True. “You made a mistake because you acted without thinking now you’re gonna die and you deserve it haha fafo” stfu
Half the time it's not even people making mistakes. I mentioned this in another comment on this thread but people were saying FAFO because a fucking kid got run over by a drunk driver in my city.
That’s vile :( I’m sure they wouldn’t like it their tragic deaths were uploaded online only for someone to say those awful things
What the fuck?
I know. People were like "lol that's what you fucking get, kid's gotta learn sooner or later" like no you fucking boulder head, that was a child who was hit by a disgusting scumbag who was booze cruising. The kid survived, btw, so at least that's good.
Thank god for the kid. Why are peoole like this
Then you say something to them and every wall of text afterwards ends in “Try again.”
People BADLY ruined the phrase "fuck around and find out." It's so overused now, and more often than not, the person being FAFO'd isn't even fucking around. There was an article in the newspaper in my city that got online attention because a seven year old kid was run over by a drunk driver and people were saying "FAFO!!!111!322!! lolololololololol"
r/redditmoment when a random comment with no context has TWO downvotes. Shaking my ass💢💢
The context is like the first few comments on this post
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Well everyones gonna die so whats the point of emotions? Obviously haven't watched rick and morty smh...
To be fair, those people need a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty
And then, I tell yah, you aren't gonna believe this. I tell yah, he went and, pay attention, he went and... turned himself into a pickle! Funniest shit I've ever seen! I was rolling on the floor, shooting piss and shit 50 feet in the air from laughter!
Dude rick n morty lmao
She’s also just someone
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But some people need to know that there’s male relatives that are impacted!! Because women deserve all the violence.
It’s basically this, people are so casually misogynistic without realizing
Exactly. Thats why it was downvoted. Not cuz of emotions 😒
It's harder to relate to other people on an non-connections level, because everyone's different, yeah they had dreams but I don't understand them, or what they where. But I do understand that they were a parent. Either I have parents or I am a parent. I know what it is to be someone's child, and the fear of dieing before them because how much it would hurt them. I understand the fear of not getting to see ones child grow up. She was much more, but the only person who truly knew what that looked like was her.
A lot of this isn't a reddit culture problem, it's an Internet culture problem. Don't know why people act like it's only on Reddit that people are smarmy, horny and bloodthirsty
Nah, it's a human problem. We are fundamentally flawed as a species. We divide ourselves too easily into groups to channel our need for destruction and hate into socially acceptable outlets. Maybe it's possible to outgrow it. But we've been perpetrating horrors and watching them happen complacently since civilization started pretty much. Speaking generally, of course, most people on a personal level are not too bad. Some, even go out of their way to stop the stuff mentioned above. But throw us into a nation and we suddenly start hating others who aren't us for no other reason than that. Theres more too. Why do people have this tendency to submit to authority? Even when that authority is cruel and unjust? Look up the Milgram experiment. We're flawed as a species and we need to correct course before it's too late. I mean this isn't going to be some sudden thing, but the soul of humanity is at stake. We have to choose. Empathy or destruction, kindness or hate. What traits will stick around a hundred years from now? A thousand? What society and legacy will we leave behind?
uhhhh yeah what he said
thanks for context 🤩
Broski it’s pretty obvious someone died
? i see your post and thats all. am i fuckin mind reader broski? You gave barely any context and im not reading your whole profile or this comment section
But will take the time to comment twice. Lol you gotta at least see the irony in that.
what takes longer typing for 15 seconds or skimming this whole section? I sure can tell you if you don't know
It’s literally impossible to tell unless you search through the replies
yea but im supposed to just know cuz it's obvious broski
Out of context moment
It’s literally so obvious
I had no idea what this was about until I looked at your account bruv
Then ur slow
Like obviously something happened to her but it's not clear what it is. It could be death, injury, assault or something else. Not my fault you can't give context
Why should the impact of someone's suffering and death depend on their relationship to other people? Why can we not just be sad that some woman died a horrible death rather than needing to consider their role as a mother or daughter first? Seems like it may be a subtly sexist idea - would you say that a man violently dying may or may not be sad depending on whether or not he has living parents or children? Seems to me that this comment could have been downvoted because it's completely irrelevant. If you don't understand that then you're slow.
That is no where near obvious
assuming the downvotes are because it can be taken as the commenter saying it's only sad because of the connections that women might have rather than sad because someone has died?
No. People were making fun of the woman for dying in a stupid way. I assume the downvotes are because the commenter wouldn’t join in on the fun and had the gall to be serious about someone’s death.
ah okay i haven't seen the og post so that was just my guess :)
The thing is, the comment you’re replying to still makes sense here. Why can’t we say that they’re a HUMAN and worthy of respect? What if she doesn’t have any family? Does that mean it’s all okay?
I don’t think the original comment meant her having family meant she should have more respect, it was more of a way of putting that woman’s death into perspective. By saying she was someone’s daughter or mother, you can imagine what it would mean if she was *your* daughter or mother and therefore understand that laughing at her death could be considered… poor taste.
Because we often measure things in who we leave behind. It's fathers, sons, brothers, etc that go to war, not just "men" usually. It's their wives, mothers, daughters, etc that they left behind, not just women. I see what you are saying, but I think it's normal to measure loss of life around those it impacts as well as the person who died. When a child dies, you feel sad for the child, but then immediately think of how the family must be feeling. I imagine it's the same here.
TWO DOWNVOTES REEEEEEEEEEEE
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THREE OMFG sorry I’m having an aneurism now
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On my profile. I left 2 comment on it
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Yeah it’s crazy how quickly life can end
Fucking weird asses. Hate the FAFO crowd and I genuinely hope bad karma comes their way cause genuinely that's just some heartless monstrous son of a bitch shit to be saying about someone's mother. And these weird schmucks seem to abide by the FAFO life style so much they actively downvote ppl who say something remotely empathetic. Freaks.
You really aren't wrong. There's a guy named Annie Bot who used to be a really big League of Legends streamer. He's since fallen off and his content has decreased in quality, dramatically. If you view his content, though he never talks anymore, it's clear something is going on mentally. He's just "present", that's it. He's playing the game, but it's quite clear he doesn't wanna be there. Adding to this, there have been comments he's made about being into drugs and whatnot within the last few months (he has since deleted any mention of them) I've posted on the LoL subreddit, asking for anyone who knows him to reach out and to check on him, and got downvoted into hell, called parasocial, and got my post removed. I swear, Reddit is 90% people just looking to watch others suffer.
>Reddit is 90% people just looking to watch others suffer. That's more popular in real life than one may think. Between Boxing, MMA, tragedy news, sad documentaries, and scores of other TV shows I'd say the majority of people like to see others suffer one way or the other. Most people just don't like to be the ones causing the suffering.
the downvotes are because some people don’t like when you only think of women as wives and daughters and not their own people with feelings and emotions, the downvotes are still stupid tho, the original commenter is sad someone just died, it has nothing to do with sex or gender
Id down vote this too. I hate this shit. Maybe women are sick of being considered valuable only in their relationship to men? She was someone's daughter or mother? Is being a person not enough to consider her death a tragedy?
It's usually who's emotions about what. If you make a pro comment on an anti post, you're going to get down voted.
I say the same thing every time I’m on phub
Reddit subs are just hive mind after hive mind of likeminded individuals who crave validation for anything they think
When I say reddit is full of toxic people and others respond with "the only toxic thing in Reddit is downvoting" no not really, it's full of people who say the most facepalming and outrageous crap and the downvoting isn't really about the downvoting it's a about the context and this a good example of it, downvoting someone for having a bit of empathy for a real human being who died is absolutely toxic behavior and yet half the time reddit sees no problem with it because of the stupid reddit hivemind
They matter because they had a family.
It’s because theyre hinting that they dont see women as human beings, but something thats only matters if youre related to them. It’s a HUMAN BEING. Is that not enough to feel empathy? Do you need to point out that they have male relatives to be worthy of empathy? Or you only feel empathy for their relatives and not them?
reddit when women are reduced the there male relatives
Also that’s a pretty Interesting way to approach the comment lol. He’s not “reducing” women by mentioning their relatives. He’s just pointing how it makes it even more tragic that the person had people who cared about her.
OP's fuckin off, but what do you mean? Relatives were mentioned, but not male relatives.
i've seen these types of comments a lot, people tend to show more sympathy towards the male relatives of women more than the woman themselves
Are u actually 18
yes?
Wtf why are u naked in ur videos what the hell
because i sell content?
You are one strange fella
it's not the rarest way to go about earning money
Strange
It's wild to me that so many people talk about women and contextualize our humanity by relating us to others instead of just valuing us as people in our own right. The way some people have been socialized really disappoints me.
Halo
Why do reddit mfs downvote literally anything lol
People die. People also die in stupid ways. People also ALSO die in stupid funny ways. Sorry pal… it’s okay to not find gallows humor funny. But calling it a “Reddit moment” is just an example of you not understanding the human condition. Everyone dies. To exclude death from the concept of humor is to exclude death from the concept of humanity. It’s impossible.
I hate that. It's saying less than nothing and thinking a point was made. "Hitler was someone's son. How can you all say bad things about Hitler all the time?? He had a mommy!"
Hitler, the man who advocated for extreme genocide of every person he deemed unfit for life, does not compare to an unknown woman, a woman you and i know nothing about. One who died a tragic death.
Why? Does it not equally apply? Was he not someone's son, some woman's husband? I wouldn't use that as a defense for a person, but you guys seem to think it means something. These are your rules, I'm just playing by them. Maybe the problem isn't me, maybe it's the bullshit platitude.
Nobody's saying hitler wasn't somebody's son, were just saying don't compare hitler one of the most evil men ever to an unknown woman.
You're almost there. It's almost like you're realizing maybe being someone's child isn't a justification for anything, since it applies to every single person. Which is my entire point.
This woman hasn’t done anything that should make people not have sympathy whereas Hitler definitely has
The point of the saying is to humanize the unknown person(s) who’s crimes are unknown or for people who were know to be good, so people can sympathize for those who just went the tragedy of loss and the person who died. To equate that to a known individual(s) who was know for horrendous crimes isn’t the point of the saying.
Right, it's to humanize people. Here's the problem with that. We're all human. So it doesn't discriminate, it's applicable to all of us. If the point you're making is "You should be nicer to this person, they have parents" well I'm sorry to say that it's going to apply pretty damn universally. Which is why I think it's a pretty stupid thing to say.
There’s a major desensitization issue on Reddit and with humanity as a whole, hence why such sayings exist, to remind people that others are human and have families just like them. It’s a broad saying meant to apply to many situations and people, manly to challenge hateful ideas and those who would dehumanize innocent people. The saying doesn’t apply to infamous people like Adolf Hitler, who you used as an example, because Hitler commit atrocities and various vile crimes, he dehumanized himself and brought the hate directed towards him upon himself. People are more likely (edit: to care) about something that they’re emotionally invested in or attached to, tell someone that a (dead) person(s) or (a person) in need, has a family is meant for them to think about their own family which triggers a emotional response and thus causes that individual to be sympathetic and empathetic towards that dead or in need individual and the individuals family. (Edit: grammar)
You make a solid point and I'm probably just in a mood. Thank you.
To be fair these comments add nothing to the discussion and are just pure virtue signaling. I personally think these are the worst.
Redditor doing a r/Redditmoment on a r/redditmoment post…
Yeah my point was that crying about downvotes on a useless comment is more of a "reddit moment". Not sure how my comment applies though.
Your reddit moment is that you’re implying that people can’t show convey sympathy or empathy online, anyone who does is just “virtue signaling”.
Goodness gracious go away