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this tweet and the implications irritate me. It's more weird status flexes from "big twitter people" wanting to feel important without any of the negative that comes with having "power". Luckily there is some sanity in the replys about punching up vs down, but a lot of agreement too. For the big account they can just block the one harasser and move on. For the one being dog piled they have a swarm all at once of autistic fan boys to deal with. They absolutely know what they're doing when they quote tweet someone so their fanbase comes to massage their fee fees and be the bad guy on their behalf. Then they get to feel validated without anyone secondary attacking them for attacking a small guy. They just sit back and say bUt I nEvEr ToLd AnYoNe To HaRaSsE. When yes you did just by quoting, you know damn well what your fanbase is going to do for you and
you like it. Otherwise why would you reply or quote in the first place?
I'm sorry, if you want to be big important twitter person sometimes that means you don't get to defend yourself the way you want to. Being the bigger person is hard and sometimes it sucks but ultimately it's the right thing to do. If it's the same person giving you shit over and over that's one thing, but it's rarely them spotlighting that one person, it's usually some random who reached out once with no pattern of harassment getting called out. And it's funny because these self important big twitter people usually fall in the 10-100k range, people bigger then that like in the 500K-millions rarely engage with trolls or any of that, but you know they still get shit on all the same, maybe even more. Funny how they can resist and be the bigger guy but these smallbig accounts just can't resist. Twitter really is full of all the bullied rejects suddenly letting power and popularity go to their heads.