So, the violent imagery, death threats, and suibaiting are just a joke, huh?
You think that’s a funny joke? 🤔 You think that’s “normal”?
Somebody’s already said it but it really does feel like making an offensive comment and trying to defend yourself by crying “It was a joke!”
Jokes are funny if the people you’re joking about are laughing. If I told a joke about black people and the black people in my audience didn’t laugh, it wasn’t funny. Full stop.
If you “jokingly” insult someone and they don’t laugh, the correct response is an apology, not doubling down.
If you make a habit of “jokingly” sending thread and suibait to people, and those people respond by balling you out, the appropriate response is an apology, not doubling down.
Sorry for their trauma but it doesn’t excuse them traumatizing others. I don’t get how they don’t understand that yes, telling someone you’re gonna assault or kill them can and will traumatize people. But that’s me giving them the benefit of the doubt and not assuming they’re fully aware of that.
Also, how do you think fiction that is undoubtedly and unmistakably fiction and marketed as such, should have everything in it treated as seriously as if it was happening to real people. But you don’t believe that when it comes to violent and threatening jokes about real, living people? I’m not completely rejecting the idea that you know exactly what you’re doing here.
They know exactly what they’re doing. To stand there and say “me telling you to kill yourself is just a funny joke, but you ever interacting with me at all is triggering and makes me nauseous” is such an obvious placement of their slight discomfort over others’ feelings of safety. It’s blatant, it’s cartoonish, and that’s the point. It’s a weaponization of the language of trauma as a display of power.
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