How embarrassing that this is what people are doing to create viral content.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago
    • Nothing on the internet is real.

    • Don’t feed the trolls.

    I feel like if there was a dedicated class in schools worldwide, that just did nothing but teach these two things over and over again, the world would be a better place.

    …Because the fundamental issue is that people are believing this guy. And feeding him. He is a troll, making cash being a troll; he cannot help himself. But the public maybe possibly can.

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      3 hours ago

      Holy shit that had been what I have been saying from what we learned in the BBS days.

      Basically anyway:

      • everyone one on the internet is a liar
      • stay anonymous, and because everyone else is too: see rule 1
      • dont feed the trolls.
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        2 hours ago

        I wish my real name was Lucifer :(

        But also, I wanted to look up the history of BBS and had to spell out “bulletin board” to get the right results from DDG, so maybe what you learned thirty+ years ago just isn’t common sense among people that weren’t even on the internet when that market collapsed.

        (I myself didn’t see the heyday either; I learned those lessons in games and on forum boards in the aughts and tens.)