I spent a few days reading Elliot's manifesto and I was startled at how much he reminded me of myself when I was 14.
Right up until he started fearing people even mentioning getting laid, and how smug he talks. Like he devoted a paragraph and a bit talking about why he quit WoW (like the fourth time he did it). Specifically he mentioned after the Cataclysm expansion pack he would constantly hear insults like "Virgin" thrown at his direction, and people would begin bragging about how often they got laid. And he felt like the game was invaded by "normals". Then he mentioned how his parents got him a job as a janitor and left the next day, because he thought it was bellow him. Towards the end of the Manifesto when he's in college his smugness reaches over 9000 when a black guy mentions he lost his virginity to a white woman.
and then he ran into his room and cried like a little bitch, and called his mom and asked her to switch his room with some other people.
I really, really blame his parents over this entire thing.
I don't know if this video has been linked earlier (probably has) but I'll link it anyway since this guy really shed a lot of light on things I didn't even think about. Like he mentions his father most likely cheated on his mother.