Is there a lolcow that hits kind of close to home for you?

Another one that hits close to home is Tyce.

I apologize on double-posting but I will not make a big text-wall. In one post. This is enough text already.

I used to "prank" people by screaming right-wing banter to hippies, to liberal voting booths, than have people get mad and blame it on my Tourette's syndrome which people's believed.

Other "pranks" included:

Making Tibetan prayer flags with Ronald Reagan on them and hanging them in the part where no one could see them. Also, plastering Ronald Reagan pictures with the quote "a tree is just a tree...." The night before the earth day parade the next morning.

Putting eggs in my grandmothers bed. Toothpaste and water in her high-heel pumps. Throwing her heels into the pond.

Throwing her framed pictures and her ornaments in the pond because I thought they were "creepy". Most were just cheap crap from her sororty secret sisters and church groups, but still......

Lighitng her office attire on fire because I didn't like it. She had this awful shamrock green skirt-suit and a I wanted it destroyed.

Painting my bothers desk with white-out. Smashing a whole carton of eggs into my closet. Mom didn't find out until we moved. I always did stuff like that.

Putting blocks of cheese in the middle of the trails where people walked with notes taped to it saying "im a lonely block of cheese please give me a home" watch until someone picks it up. Someone always picked it up. I would point and laugh.

I had a toy fishing rod and would catch tourbans with them and reel the unraveling tourban in. (Area was highly populated by East Indians and Hindus)

Steal peoples cellphones, call 911 on them and than throw them in the ditch.

Chucked somebodies pet cockatiel out the window because "it wouldn't shut up" it perched on the clothes line and kept on squaking. I threw a pound of frozen beef at the bird. The bird jumped to the power line. I threw another pound of beef at it.

Just a whole lot of spastic and behavioural problems.
 
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Self-control issues... and the fact that I almost burnt my house a few years ago.
 
Mr. Enter.

I think I'm a lot more subdued than him but I know that I can get embarrassingly caught up in the little nitty details of things and alienate my audience. I can get pretty autistic sometimes and not be self aware of how I sound. Sometimes I look so deeply into things I find myself getting so angry over almost nothing. There are many people out there like that.

I think the difference between us is that I have a lot more self awareness to my flaws. I acknowledge that I'm not a perfect person and I don't mind laughing at my flaws. I mean, we all have them, we all do stupid shit once in a while, what's the problem with it as long as nothing really of value's been lost? Being a temporary lolcow is not really something to get too upset over. But Mr. Enter seems to be really shitty at taking any form of criticism. And this really sets his character to be pretty low, because while it's one thing to make a mistake, it's another thing to act like it never happened when you know it did, and to refuse to accept that maybe it was out of touch.

I'm also a much more positive person. A lot of his worst Spongebob episodes are episodes that he specifically watched because he heard they were bad. Why watch something you know you won't enjoy? What, for review purposes? Why not watch stuff thinking it might be good and talking about your feelings afterwards?

I mean, it's like Tales of Symphonia. I think I'm the only person in the world who thinks that this was a pretty overrated game. I don't think it's terrible or anything but I felt like it was really unpolished and the story was really stupid. But I didn't go and play that game because I thought I would hate it. I played it because I heard it was really good and it just turned out I didn't like it. I want to do a review of the game, and I'm going to go in pretending like I haven't played the game, so I can get an accurate view of how I feel about the game as opposed to when I was 16. Review what you went in without a bias, because you'll be a lot less biased with your opinion.

You might argue, well what about the AVGN? He reviews games he knows suck! Well, most of the games in the better episodes of AVGN are games that he initially rented as a child and didn't think would suck. He walked in there like I did with Symphonia, thinking I would enjoy it, and learning it was not what it lead up to be. In addition a lot of the bootleg games he had no idea what to expect, although after a while he started to pick up on the suckage. And on the games that he played on purpose because he knew they would suck? He has fun making the videos! He enjoys making fun of the games that he plays. And yeah, sure, his quality isn't what it used to be but I can't ever say I feel like he's an overly negative person.

I feel like Mr. Enter specifically seeks out things that make him upset, and he becomes a miserable person because of that. And that's part of the reason why he's a well recognized lolcow while most of us who share his negative traits are not.
 
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First, the furry fandom. Because I draw furry and I like it a lot, I'm not ashamed to admit it... but I'm not one of those nutjobs we see all the time, and it hits me because, just for liking and drawing furry, I get thrown in the same bag as the crazy ones in the fandom, which is terrible because I draw a lot of things and furry is just a little part of it but, as I said, I get thrown in that bag just for those few drawings...

But the one lolcow that hits WAY too close to home for me is Dobson, Tom Preston, etc.
I don't produce art as fast as I used to and I get demotivated easily, so sometimes I can take a lot to finish my drawings, even commissions and I always feel terrible about it but I just don't get those "gotta draw fast" moments anymore, as much as I would love to, and I procrastinate a lot.

I don't want to be in Dobson's situation, that is my biggest fear as an artist, to be universally hated, to get criticized for literally anything I ever do just because of being who I am while I see how other artists get a free pass for doing the same stuff (but he's an asshole, there's no excuse for that) so Dobby actually motivates me to keep going and feel better about myself. But yeah, I can identify with him...
 
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As someone who's suffered from depression before (and no, that's not really power leveling; you guys don't care about my personal shit), I can kind of relate to Kent at times. I suffered from it for different reasons from him, but I still can watch his videos sometimes and see a bit of myself in him.
 
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Dobson because I fear all the time that I will or already have become as complacent and lazy as him and as someone who loves to draw himself, there have been times where I've put off things I've wanted to do for dumb reasons or because I didn't have enough confidence in myself at the time. I'm even embarrassed to look at some of the drawings I finished up in Photoshop and I've only been using Adobe programs since last summer, so there was a lot of trial and error for me to get used to.

When I'm feeling like a self depreciating piece of shit, his thread makes me feel better and teaches me that going to social media websites like Twitter and whining all the time doesn't help anything or being an asshole to everyone else that tries to help you too. To a lesser extent, watching Connor's antics with only taking like one class a semester have also made me feel not as guilty for taking a year off since I worked my ass off taking more and more classes to catch up to everyone else I went to high school with and several summer semesters too. I have not taken one fucking break from all of that.

At one point, I had been brainwashed into the Manosphere crowd to a certain extent, but the people I followed from that shit were people like Aurini and some of the other YouTube clowns. This is when I had felt so disillusioned with my politics and other beliefs that it was much easier for me to get indoctrinated into those kinds of fringe movements like anarcho-capitalism, Randian objectivism (I never considered myself one, but reading Ayn Rand really pushed me into these movements nonetheless) and shit like what I often heard from the people at the Mises Institute, so that's why I like posting in the Loveshy Therapy Center a lot. I want to do my part to prevent others from buying into any of that bullshit.

Finally, Kengle at times scares me because of what a dead end career he's ended up doing with his life and he gives accountants a bad name too. To me, he's everything that I fear if I ever wanted to get into the financial industry for a while.
 
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Kanadajin3.
This lolcow makes me cringe so hard. I'm Canadian, in Japan, got the husbando. It's like a glimpse into what I might have been were I narcissistic and batshit insane. Not trying to a-log, but it's just weird how similar some things are. Even down to having a husband who wants to leave Japan, except I am staying with mine.

Spooky.
 
The furry fandom. I even used to use Furcadia when I was like 11. The shit I've seen will never be unseen...
And Amazing Atheist when I discovered atheism. Fortunately, never went bananas.
 
I could have gone down the NiceGuy path quite badly, were it not for the fact that I realised fairly early on that people often enjoy a bastard sense of humour. Seeing the likes of the non-hateful loveshies makes me feel a bit awkward, because I just want to grab them and shout 'being decent is not a china token, it's a baseline behavioural standard!' Having the realisation that being myself generally garnered more positive attention than being a 'nice' guy really did make a massive positive change to my life.

The hate-fuelled loveshies can choke on an avalanche of smeggy cocks, though: there's no excuse for their particular brand of bile.
 
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Furries hit home for me as well. Mostly because a lot of the time my favorite races to play in RPGs that had options other than the basic humans, elves, and dwarves were the "beast" races, like the Khajit and Argonians in Elder Scrolls and the Iksar, Froglok, and Ratonga in Everquest. Given that someone I used to play EQ with had an encounter with a Kerra-only yiff guild, I wouldn't put it past furries to shit all over either of those series.

Weeaboos also hit home for me, because that was basically me from age 10 to 16. Nearly every stereotype you could think of associated with weebs, I could check off every single one of them most likely. I drew a lot of fanart, and I wrote a lot of fanction for Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo, Pokemon, Digimon, DOA, and DBZ. They all just sat in the hard drive of one of my older computers and I never really published any to the internet. I doubt that I still have them. All of them had asinine, Mary-Sue/self-insert-riddled plotlines and pairings that made no sense and sometimes dipped into other series and general emo-ness.

I think a combination of growing the fuck up and not wanting to turn into my batshit insane former friend-turned-personal-lolcow had something to do with me dropping out of that phase in my life.
 
CWC for lots of unusual reasons. It seemed to build after more and more of listening to audio calls and such. You notice how he has a Pokemon 2000 movie poster, legos, and stuffed animals? I had stuff like that all around my room. As a matter of fact, he owns a few things that I used to have. While these types of things aren't always immature to own, I did have a-lot of it. Not stored away, but in plain sight. In a Kacey call, Kacey tells CWC that maybe he can't grow up because he's always around that stuff. Something like, "How can you expect yourself to be an adult if you're surrounded by that kid stuff?" It's true, you really can't mature if you hold onto that stuff and live in a room with all of it.

For me, I just never really replaced the kid stuff. It continued to grow until I was in high school and preparing for college. As a result, I never wanted my friends over because it was everywhere, and sometimes it wasn't tidy. I was pretty self aware of the problem, that's the worst feeling. I looked at the bedrooms of friends and I knew that I was far from normal. Not only that, but I couldn't get rid of the stuff. Admittedly, my parents had to help me get rid of a-lot of it. I kept some of it, but most of it went to kids at churches where they needed it. Yeah, it seems light in comparison to CWC, but if I hadn't have moved out of my parents, I would have developed some of the CWC lifestyle. I honestly don't think I would've been as bad as CWC, but who knows.

It only takes a few bad circumstances for that to happen, and most people won't handle them properly.
 
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When I was 14, I started drawing furry characters, many of which were Pokémon and/or Sonic based. I refused to find ways to improve my craft, and I had a DA full of stuff, some of which was also cross-posted to a personal site I had on Angelfire at the time. However, I was too far under the radar to ever get swept up in any trolling, and I don’t think my art was QUITE lulzy-bad enough for anyone to notice. I also wrote a couple bad furry stories and even a fanfic or two, but almost nobody ever saw them because I never posted them in public places. I ultimately blanked my original account around 2006 because I was disillusioned with my seeming lack of improvement, although I was apparently still browsing until about 2009. I’ve since returned to DA, but it’s not very active because I move very slowly.

It’s through this that I see parallels not only to Chris back in his comic making days, but also to Dboywheeler, another amateur artist who loved Sonic stuff way too much and never made any attempt to improve his craft. He and I were actually friends on AIM for a while, but he and I drifted apart, and I never realized until much later how hard he had been getting trolled. He now posts his art on Flickr of all places, and has not improved one iota. I think another thing that helped is that I never got all religulous or political like Dboy did, probably because I was too sheltered to form any political opinions. The same sheltering is probably what helped keep most of my own past potential lolcowiness at bay, because I've largely been a silent participant in any areas where lolcows breed. (There were a lot of terrible proto-Internet Tough Guy posts I made on Usenet around 2002, but in Internet years that's the freaking Dark Ages.)
 
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