- Joined
- Mar 24, 2013
Satan's point is a good one. One knows one isn't about to see anything lighthearted when one selects Saw from the Redbox, but when the average person sits down to read a story about the Smurfs, they are unlikely to be prepared for vile torture porn. It's a cheap way to elicit a reaction from one's audience.
That said, there's a long tradition of tricking people into clicking on stuff they didn't want to see, and gross shit on the internet is pretty much par for the course. In a normal online community, if someone comes along and posts vile fapfic in an inappropriate setting, what happens? It's deleted, the offender is blocked, and everyone moves on. No big deal.
But here, one realizes with dawning horror that this is not a normal community. The regular denizens of that smurfboard were all like, "Tee hee, poor babies! I can't wait to find out what happens next! You're a good writer, Smurfinhand!" The lone voice of reason is banned for trolling. One wonders, are all these people actually retarded? Are they perverts too? Is this the real world?
Suddenly, the real world seems just as alien and wrong as the smurf-torturing universe dreamed up by some online degenerate. The weird dystopian-nested-story-worldbuilding thing is what got to me.
My Dad was a corrections officer. Some of the stuff his inmates did would make this seem tame by comparison. I'm not trying to downplay how disturbed the creators of these comics are, but real life is always worse. And I'm not trying to say "you guys are so weak for being upset over this." If anything I'm jealous that you all are not as desensitized as I am.