when I was in high school and Barack Obama had just been voted President but had yet to take office, the Digg homepage was like three quarters Obama headlines, just one after the other, it was so obnoxious. one said something to the effect of "Sixth Death Threat Made Against President-Elect Obama", and the ridiculousness of it just floored naïve sixteen-year-old me—wasn't Obama supposed to be the hip young Internet President? did he really not know that Death Threats are just kind of part and parcel of the whole "using the Internet" experience? shocking at first but you quickly acclimate as you realize that words typed into a computer anonymously or pseudonymously obviously cannot physically affect you. I felt the need to point this out to everyone by unwittingly committing a felony under US Code Title 18 Section 871 by typing "lmao only six? I am going to kill President-Elect Barack Obama, death threat +1 lol". for some reason (times were different I guess?) nothing bad ever happened to me save for getting (temporarily!) banned from Digg, but this was basically the beginning of the cultural shift of considering "Death Threats" to be "something scary that can happen to you, a celebrity, or anyone, who uses the Internet" from "something that that happens to you as a natural consequence of using the Internet, like, basically every online game or message board, all the time, it's not a big deal". we didn't understand what was happening at the time but in hindsight it's clear that this was the beginning of forcible normie gentrification of our Internet.
As a part-Irish guy it feels great to see our centuries-long cultural tradition (developing parasocial fixations on internet celebrities) finally being brought to the broader discourse
I think he just means that he is going to one day actually murder Hasan Piker in his own property.
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Lena Dunham and Hasan Piker should fear the strong
when I was in high school and Barack Obama had just been voted President but had yet to take office, the Digg homepage was like three quarters Obama headlines, just one after the other, it was so obnoxious. one said something to the effect of "Sixth Death Threat Made Against President-Elect Obama", and the ridiculousness of it just floored naïve sixteen-year-old me—wasn't Obama supposed to be the hip young Internet President? did he really not know that Death Threats are just kind of part and parcel of the whole "using the Internet" experience? shocking at first but you quickly acclimate as you realize that words typed into a computer anonymously or pseudonymously obviously cannot physically affect you. I felt the need to point this out to everyone by unwittingly committing a felony under US Code Title 18 Section 871 by typing "lmao only six? I am going to kill President-Elect Barack Obama, death threat +1 lol". for some reason (times were different I guess?) nothing bad ever happened to me save for getting (temporarily!) banned from Digg, but this was basically the beginning of the cultural shift of considering "Death Threats" to be "something scary that can happen to you, a celebrity, or anyone, who uses the Internet" from "something that that happens to you as a natural consequence of using the Internet, like, basically every online game or message board, all the time, it's not a big deal". we didn't understand what was happening at the time but in hindsight it's clear that this was the beginning of forcible normie gentrification of our Internet.
What exactly is Hasan training for? Other than grooming and taking advantage of young women.
As a part-Irish guy it feels great to see our centuries-long cultural tradition (developing parasocial fixations on internet celebrities) finally being brought to the broader discourse