I rate this a Didn’t happen/10
Stellar ad for getting people to stop smoking.
Someone’s gotta work for them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Them smokers arent gonna feed themselvesYou need to escape the backslash (and underscores) in order for the right arm to appear in this emoji.
¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯What are you talking about? Theirs looks fine but yours is busted. Difference in instances?
The person you’re replying to backticked it so it was copy/pasteable. Presumably the the top level comment already edited theirs.
Thats weird, mine looks fine on Sync
Who fucking gets bullied in college?
Kids are mean (yes you are still kid when you’re an undergrad)
Who still buys tobacco?
Why are you asking me?
It’s rhetorical, it just seemed to fit well with your question
The poor (statistically)
interesting & weird since tobacco is exhorbitantly expensive. How can poor people afford it?
They take on more crushing debt, steal, beg, lie.
Look at the stats on smoking and income in Canadian provinces. The two are like inverse of each other.
Maybe you swapped the cause and effect. Instead of “How do poor people smoke” you could ask “Why are smokers poor”.
And then you’ve already answered your question
Members of the LGBT+ community, for one. People who are neurodivergent commonly face bullying as well.
Honestly though, you’re right.
And this thread is nuts with the victim blaming. Like holy shit, society really does deserve its problems.
Every time I look at the comments for one of these posts, that’s what’s going on at the top. I can usually see where people are coming from even if it sounds insane but I don’t know what this community’s problem is. Maybe a coping strategy from being bullied themselves? It could make them feel like they were in control of it. I’ve seen that from victims of trauma before.vThat’s all I’ve got for theories.
Genuine answer: annoying people who inject themselves into social circles in which they’re unwelcome. And, no, I’m not defending bullying. I’m just explaining how it happens.
Yeah… This maybe isn’t the nicest way to phrase it, but I’ve seen similar situations. Usually people are just kind of talking behind people’s backs, but sometimes it gets nasty :(. Frankly people kind of get bullied all the time everywhere. It’s maybe not as violent as playground bullying but people will be shitty to people at work, school, whatever. Do your best not to be a part of it, try to be self aware if you might hurt somebody else’s feelings, and try to stand up for people.
Or just go postal, that tends to end the cycle.
Also the idiot with samurai swords on the wall and a lack of good hygiene skills.
They just hang out with the other comp-sci students.
Humorously enough, it wasn’t comp-sci for me. They were generally the cool tech bros, with some nerdy exceptions. The true neck-beards were a certain subset of physics students. They literally left keyboards greasy when they used the community computers. A friend who was in the higher classes told me classes usually had a couple feet section left blank around them because of the smell.
People who didn’t get bullied enough in high school and are usually outspoken libertarians.
Outspoken libertarians aren’t going to be bullied in college - outspoken anything in college generally leads to people ignoring you. College students that think they’re being bullied most likely attribute normal behavior to bullying - just like incels treat normal human interactions as impediments to getting laid.
College students that think they’re being bullied most likely attribute normal behavior to bullying
This. The specific problem my alma mater ran into was all the conservative students saying they were getting bullied, and when asked how they were bullied, the response was basically “People disagreed with me and now they don’t want to hang out with me!”
Sometimes I wonder if they’d actually been bullied, if their tune would’ve been different…
Your first sentence is somewhat correct, I’d argue that dealing with any kind of absolute like you have done is incredibly dumb though. Of course being outspoken can get you bullied. It may be less likely in a university/college setting, but it’s definitely gonna happen. And your second second sentence is so wrong it’s almost comical. Bullying at a tertiary education level is so common that I guarantee there’s a bunch of studies done on it and probably a wiki page for it too.
Edit: lol, yep, shit loads of studies (and there’s plenty more to be found than just these few), and the wiki exists.
I wonder why this individual was bullied
We do not know if the person was bullied or just had an extreme sense of entitlement or some other type of personality disorder which made them believe everyone who didn’t treat them a specific way was bullying them.
Being autistic can get someone bullied, and the person on the receiving end may not even know what they did wrong because of their autism.
Fuckin yyyyup
This was my whole life and I love seeing people online say the person being bullied deserves it.
Really shits all over my experience and the years I spent trying to figure out what the fuck was wrong with me to make everyone seem to hate me just for existing.
Have you met a bully?
Usually bully has a reason that they bully, but their targets are just whoever looks like an easy target. If it turns out that they are, they keep them.
For anyone who believes any part of this, I have a fantastic bridge-based real estate opportunity for you.
Does it happen to be located in a NYC borough to the East of Manhattan?
I think everything on the internet should be taken with a grain of salt.
Even my ramblings. I tell them to the best of my memory, but memory is a funny thing, and your only hearing my side of the story.
I actually know a girl who was always the good looking one who got a job with Philip Morris. She moved from a prairie town in Canada to Paris for work and from what I see on social media she’s living a pretty damn luxurious life. We used to be pretty good friends in university but haven’t kept up.
She didn’t like it for the first bit, she wasn’t shy about saying so but the money and opportunities…she stopped talking that way after a few years and now she only comes home for the holidays.
Sounds like she got hooked.
When you’re in a hostile environment, it’s natural to be hostile to your environment.
Good for you anon, I’m glad you’re doing well.
If you’re getting bullied in college you’re just doing it wrong.
Eventually you have to step back and wonder, “Am I just a piece of shit?”. Ask yourself this question, then look at your screen. Are you on 4chan? Do you have Pepe images on your post? If you answered yes to these questions, there’s a high probability that you’re just a piece of shit.
Reducing 4chan to its mediatic extremes is like reducing Reddit to the_donald or Lemmy to Hexbear.
This ignores that 4chan is widely known as the cesspool of the internet and attracts those types. It’s like going on Hexbear and being surprised at the communists. People gather where their banners are. Shit attracts shit. This reduction is apt.
Sure it kind of does some good ish things sometimes, but more often than not, it’s just an internet mob internet mobbing. That’s essentially all it is: chaos waves constantly crashing back in on itself. Any good that comes from it is incidental at best.
Also, defending 4chan on the wider Internet is a little odd, 4chan itself revels in its shit reputation…
Sure it kind of does some good ish things sometimes
I’m actually not saying it brings more good or whatever. I’m saying it’s mostly an anonymous forum with people just discussing like many other places on the internet.
I can’t help but project an old version of myself on you. I can’t imagine defending 4chan unless I was actively using it a lot… It did used to be basically my only internet community, so I understand being particularly fond of the cesspool.
However, I don’t actually understand your reactions here. Why are you defending it when it seems like 4chan itself wouldn’t even go this far except maaaybe as a limp wristed attempt at an excuse when something truly horrific happens because of them? I genuinely don’t think I understand
Like, to currently vilify it is easy, just take a screenshot of pol. I remember looking pre2016 and seeing HYPERPARTISANSHIP all caps everywhere. It’s an anonymous forum with people discussing plans to make life shittier for various groups, essentially at all times… And before pol it was b (my era was back when pol was a boring place, I don’t know the current state of any board, but I know some of the history and what motivates some normies of my niche who fuck with it)
I just don’t understand the downplaying of it, normal people participate in shit ways on 4chan specifically because of the anonymity. The anonymity is why it’s such a cesspool in the first place. It’s toxic keyboard warrior syndrome to the extreme.
I’m not using it a lot just checking by curiosity sometimes because I like internet culture. And you probably do too, otherwise you wouldn’t be in this community.
What I particularly dislike is tribally colported stereotypical opinions. For exemple Reddit considering Musk as a genius a few years ago and a complete idiots nowadays. I find similarly stupid to reduce 4chan to its racist/sexist users, there’s also a lot of good quality social satire as we can find in this c, and overall a lot of uninstering normal internet discussion between nerds of different specialities. You focus on pol and b, like people could focus on Hexbear and lemmygrad to judge Lemmy, I think Lemmy cannot be reduced to those.
Genuine question: What do you think I, as a member of the LGBT+ community, did wrong that resulted in being bullied while in college?
Not fitting in with the “normal” people, unfortunately. People tend to not like people that’s different from them.
You went to a shit college I guess. The majority (all) of the(m) (ones I have toured) are very open to that kind of thing
You didn’t press up down down left right up down on the d-pad when beginning college.
Yeah the cheat code is L1L2R1R2, not LGBT, silly.
This is a person who thinks that everyone else in the world is to blame, instead of considering the far more likely answer that they are the asshole. Jesus.
Is there any greentext these days that doesn’t start with a Pepe?
be me
write a greentext without Pepe
literally no one gives a shit
someone steals it but posts with Pepe
billion updoots
fuck my life
oh so THAT’S what compels people to work in the tobacco industry. I get it now. Vengeance is yours. You’ve earned it.
Godspeed. This is like my story but mine is far less extreme
Sure, sounds like someone who’d suddenly get a $250k/yr job.
Seriously, this is “Dad is either a C level executive for a major bank and he gave you a job on the condition that you stop doing pills or you got hired right out of a top ranked tech school by a FAANG” money.
