Are all Cows mentally ill? - (excepting Careercows, ironic Lolcows, and the internet famous)

[themarchivist2]

One anti-Lolcow argument I've seen from normies more and more is that milking and observing Lolcows is reprehensible because Lolcows are inherently mentally ill. This is separate from anti-KF arguments which imply that Kiwi Farms specifically targets troons and mentally ill people; there now seems to be a preconception on much of the internet that Lolcows, as a concept on the wider web, are mentally ill by definition.

The more I think about it, though, I realized that I honestly can't think of a counter-example of someone considered a Cow who isn't mentally fucked in some way. The inverse is obvious, there are plenty of mentally ill people who wouldn't be considered Cows, but pretty much every Cow seems to have some sort of mental illness. The only exceptions off the top of my head are some Careercows, occasional internet famous people, and a few ironic Lolcows, though all of those stretch the definition of a Cow in other ways which make them seem invalid as counter-examples imo.

Are there any Cows you follow who you're confident aren't mentally ill in any way?

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Are cows mentally ill?

Cows are livestock. Take your meds OP

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

Kiwi Farms specifically targets troons

IRC troonism was removed from the list of mental illnesses by World Health Organization, so it is all a fair game now.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

Patrick Tomlinson isn't mentally ill, just fat

 

[Crex Crex]

Careercows and the internet famous make up most lolcows today, of course the remainder is mentally ill or otherwise odd people.
Mental illness does not inherently mean unaccountability though. People like Chris Chan, Andrew Ditch or Goonclown are all obviously lunatics but they still obviously very know right from wrong very well.

 

[JamusActimus]

Someone like Rekieta is not mentaly ill.

He's jjust very good at making bad decision and mental gymnastic.

 

[Ballistics]

I think a good chunk of career cows are mentally stable just a bit low IQ. I think someone like Laura Loomer is an example of someone mentally sound but a complete lolcow. She's a complete moron but her antics indicate she's more of a grifter than a retard.

 

[FuhrerMustang]

I think a good chunk of career cows are mentally stable just a bit low IQ. I think someone like Laura Loomer is an example of someone mentally sound but a complete lolcow. She's a complete moron but her antics indicate she's more of a grifter than a retard.

She's just a dumb thot who's a narc.

 

[ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday]

Usually before even being discovered most Cows have either delusions of grandure or some other personality disorder that allows them to shift blame from themselves and to believe that they're "special" unlike others. Though the 2nd part may just be a byproduct of increased social media usage.

While I don't believe all Cows are mentally ill; I do believe that they show signs of it either due to environment or upbringing.

 

[Dr. Matthew C. Harris]

Nobody becomes a lolcow unless they're severely mentally ill. The cow is defined by an inability to learn from their circumstances.

There are cynical, mentally ill fuckers out there who manage to escape cowdom by simply either avoiding posting their mental illness on the internet altogether or ducking and hiding when the shots start being fired at them. They're mentally ill, but they're less mentally ill in that sense.

And then there are normal people who have one bad day and slip. They might be mentally ill, or might not even necessarily be. They also just get their shit together before slipping into cowdom.

To truly, really be a cow it either takes a complete lack of self-awareness only found in disorders like NPD, BPD or sheer retardation + autism or some other unspecified mental condition. Nobody sane tweets out "ENJOY PRISON, STALKER" every 5 minutes. Or tries to narcissistically manipulate the world into thinking that they don't have a drug proble, even in face of sheer, overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Or acts like either Cyraxx or the Boglim (retards).

Edit: I guess that grifters are the only possible exception.

 

[Gog & Magog]

Edit: I guess that grifters are the only possible exception.

True. Grifters have a mighty financial incentive to behave like retards.

 

[Irredemable Retardation]

Lolcows always have the right (and not that uncommon) mix between stupidity and narccisism. What sets individual cows apart is how they deal with it and their circumstances.

 

[EgyptianTraveler]

Schizo babble. Stop trying to manifest 57 levels of morality and assumptions into this. Who said it's wrong to stigmatize mental health? Who said it's wrong to bully....? The Japanese idiom "a nail that sticks out gets hammered" comes to mind. Worst case, they're autistic and too fucking stupid to understand what they're doing. Who said calling these people out on their shit is inherently unjust?

Stop listening to whining and sociopathic fembots virtue signaling on social media. The only correct answer is, "who cares? if they're that mentally unstable and cannot be trusted with their own autonomy, to the asylum with thee"

 

[3deadniggers]

Nobody becomes a lolcow unless they're severely mentally ill. The cow is defined by an inability to learn from their circumstances.

There are some very functional people who cannot learn from their mistakes. They're not retarded or mentally ill, they just do not learn. I know someone who can fuck something up, do it correctly the next time and receive praise for it then immediately fuck it up again every time going forward.

Can you define mentally ill OP? Low intelligence isn't mental illness but it's something that can make you a cow.

 

[Dr. Matthew C. Harris]

They're not retarded or mentally ill, they just do not learn. I know someone who can fuck something up, do it correctly the next time and receive praise for it then immediately fuck it up again every time going forward.

This is very likely some form of mental illness, though. Without more details I can't even hazard a guess, but it could be any number of things, likely something neurological like ADHD or autism.

Can you define mentally ill OP?

I agree this is important because mental illness =/= insanity. When people think about mental illness and cows they think of the big bad boys in the DSM, but someone like Ulillillia ended up a cow for a spell because his extreme OCD compelled him to "degrease" pizza. As far as we are aware he only had that and nothing else, though a touch of the 'tism also seems likely.

That's why I say it's pretty much impossible to be a cow and not have some sort of mental illness. Vast swathes of the population have a mental illness, it only stands to reason that somebody engaging in cow behaviour has it, and has it bad. Unless it's a work, a grift, and even then extreme grifters are very likely to be antisocial.

 

[3deadniggers]

This is very likely some form of mental illness, though. Without more details I can't even hazard a guess, but it could be any number of things, likely something neurological like ADHD or autism.

It's silly stuff like over cooking food. Getting it right then over cooking it again. A small adjustment to behaviour would solve it.

Ulillillia was pretty deep into mental illness for a while. His autism was making him spend hours every day trying to figure out engine limitations in Bubsy 3D. He was a clear cut case of autism running wild at his peak.

There's a lot of furry cows which you wouldn't call mentally ill in the traditional sense. They have weird fetishes and want to dress as Scooby doo but they're functional outside of that. Do you consider a diaper fetish and wanting a fox tail butt plug to be mental illness? It's not normal or healthy but it's hard to call having a weird fetish to be mental illness. If we do then almost everyone is mentally ill in some way.

 

[FamicomGorby]

Yes.

The defining characteristics of a lolcow is an inability to learn from their past mistakes or just walk away from their computer.

 

[Spunt]

Yes.

The defining characteristics of a lolcow is an inability to learn from their past mistakes or just walk away from their computer.

That's not a definition of mental illness though, it's just a definition of retardation.

I would say that it depends on your definition of "mental illness". Some cows are definitely psychotic or schizophrenic of course, and those are undoubtedly mental illnesses, but I would say the vast majority of the remainder have some kind of personality disorder, usually cluster B. Is a personality disorder a mental illness? As far as the justice system is concerned, for example, it's not enough for an insanity defence or the equivalent in any country that I know of. But they are all in the DSM-V, so in another way they technically are. Is Autism a mental illness? Many say that it isn't, it's just a different form of mental functioning, and the majority of autists are functional people, just different. But again autism is in the DSM-V, alongside things like paraphilias and fetishes, which whilst common lolcow traits, most would say that they don't qualify as "mental illness" unless they fuck up your ability to function.

The better way to phrase the question is "are lolcows mentally abnormal", and I'd say, yes, they all are. We don't cover mentally normal people here. Not all mentally abnormal people are lolcows either, though, and that's an important thing to notice, being mentally ill, even if you are a schizo or whatever, is not enough to be a lolcow on your own. It's an attitude, a state of mind, but not one that mentally healthy people, or the vast majority of mentally unhealthy people, entertain.

 

[Dr. Matthew C. Harris]

Do you consider a diaper fetish and wanting a fox tail butt plug to be mental illness?

Personally? Yes. Besides my personal bias? It's a paraphilia, so not exactly.

It's not normal or healthy but it's hard to call having a weird fetish to be mental illness.

It's less the fetish, and more how the cows manifest it. Some zoophile nigger who goons to horrendous furry porn but isn't Folf levels of public about it will, at most, end up in a lolcalf sideshows thread. Hell, even Hotwheels is an example of this. He's commissioned some really haram furshit, but he's better known as one the internet's biggest hypocrites and Quislings. A guy who ran his own site into the ground with retarded levels of lolbert leniency and then did a complete 180 into becoming a troon mouthpiece. Nobody really gives a shit about the fact that he's a furfag.

The ones that get threads are like the aforementioned Folf, absolutely and obviously fucked in the head. A side note I might want to add to this though is that although this is circumstantial, every furry I've ever seen is on the autistic spectrum. Not hard evidence, so take it or leave it.

almost everyone is mentally ill in some way.

It's not almost everyone, but it's definitely a whole boatload of the population. 1 in 5 in the US. And given the enduring stigma around mental health this figure is very likely underreported, there are a lot of people who meet criteria at some point in their lives but make use of the coping mechanisms of old such as going to their pastor, venting to friends, turning to substance use.

Depression and anxiety are mental illnesses, and they're everywhere you look, especially these days.

Therefore, when you consider cow behaviour, it seems only logical for me to assume that every cow who isn't doing it for money is suffering from some condition or another. And definitely a severe variant thereof.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

That's not a definition of mental illness though, it's just a definition of retardation.

Eh, not really. They cab still engage not because they are stupid, but because they choose too and there can be more than one reason for that.