What internet experts seem to always forget about the internet. Take for example the boobies belmont search, 63,000 results seems like a lot but on an internet with 4.54 billion pages it is a drop in the ocean.
Now take internet users, whilst it might seem you set up where ever you go be everyone for being cthulhu jiggly, it is just that similar tiny minority who are very noisy and have impact beyond their number. Keep in mind their attacks are not isolated and basically those individuals, largely psychopaths, attack everyone they can as much as they can on the internet, so one psychopathic troll can end up with thousands upon thousands of victims.
When you start pooling those psychopaths on the internet tens of thousands of them, those attacks seem like they come from the whole of the internet basically because that tiny minority spend so, so, much time attacking everyone they can, for any reason they can.
So you get what seems like a mass pile on but it is just that tiny minority attacking, you as well as everyone else, so that flood of attacks thousands upon thousands, often ainât all that many actual individuals, just the same few attacking and attacking and attacking (not so few 1% of the general population).
I am an internet addict and I have never heard of or seen that giff until now but I do understand and know how something like that can become the focal point of attention for psychopaths, especially if they smell weakness or get the sense that you can be victimised, they will not stop until stopped and they will keep it going and going and going. Not one victim but often hundreds even thousands of victims.
They are out there, actively looking for people to attack, that is their nature, so talking about young men as a group is pointless, whilst talking about psychopaths on the internet is far more accurate. What to do about it is a much tougher question, they do escalate their behaviour and they can be a real genuine threat for someone they perceive as a victim. Finding them and isolating them does make sense but I doubt society is ready for it until many more victims pile up.
That seems⌠disappointing.
Like @thaumatechnicia I never heard of this meme before* but couldnât help giggling when I saw the gif linked above for the first time.
Thanks for the talk, I liked it very much!
*) full disclosure: I wasnât even aware of you as a person. sorry 
Woman attempts to get attention on the internet by shaking boobs.
Succeeds?
Surely youâre joking?
How is this not what happened? I understand that ultimately she wasnât entirely pleased with the attention she did receive, but thatâs the thing about being in the business of getting attention. You never have complete control.
So as another who didnât know about this till now. @Veronica I think the .gif is awesome, but then I am the sort that is just jealous that I canât do that 
. However I have been on this planet long enough to know too many dickweeds still have a stick up their asses and it makes me sad that a silly boob joke can cause such crap.
I hadnât heard of you before today and hadnât seen that GIF either. But I watched your entire talk and thought it was pretty good. I liked your point at the end where you suggest that even if we donât think we are part of the problem, we can still try to have more empathy. So Iâm going to try to do that going forward. I havenât had any cringe-worthy moments immortalized on the internet, but know people who have, and recognize that itâs a real problem.
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW YOU SOW
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Some men who know they have no chance with an accomplished and beautiful woman turn their rage against women. It can be full on violence and stalking. It can be raging slut shaming. It can be more subtle and passive aggressive like decontextualizing and clipping out a boob shake gif and then sticking it back in her face every time she posts something on the net. But itâs the same energy.
Thatâs what I was getting at yesterday and waited long enough but finally had to just come out and spray it.
The line is when you are singling someone out and directing your misplaced rage at them.
âCape May Brewing Co. co-owner Ryan Krill says his company is brewing 500 gallons of YOPO, or âYou Only Pope Once.â The pope-inspired beer is a hoppy pale ale with 5.5 percent alcohol content and will only be available on draft.â
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Okay, @awjt, I just figured it out. Letâs call this the Takei Principle:
If George Takei wouldnât say it, donât say it on the Internet.
And again, this example was being used to illustrate my point: even when we post things willingly on the internet (and I agree that I had full knowledge that it could be posted) is it right to have something repeatedly be taken out of context and used as a weapon against that person for all time?
Iâm on the very low end of the spectrum. Extremely low. Itâs an annoyance to me, but itâs a personal experience that has taught me not to be a dickwad to people online, because I donât know the full extent of their experiences, what theyâve been through, and how theyâve changed.
This stuff has less calories than beer!
Two great tastes?
Nope!
Oral usage
When taken orally by some tribes in South America, small amounts are often combined with alcoholic chichas (maize based beer).[14] Moderate doses are unpleasant, producing nausea and vomiting. The beans were a main ingredient in bilca tauri, an oral purge medicine used to induce ritual vomiting once a month.[14] Large amounts are not usually consumed orally; as many tribes believe oral use is dangerous.
I think that brilliantly supports the Takei Principle.
Ribbing: check
No butthurt: check
No malice: check
Donât be a creep: check
Iâm making this a Thing
