Is it actually enviable to be a lolcow? - Ignorance is a bliss, The lack of self-awareness doubly so.

[Deepland Bystander]

While they're laughable to us. At least they're doing the thing they enjoy... lolcows also usually have orbiters and like-minded people around them that would hugbox and support them regardless what they do to themselves. They are given the message that they're worthwhile among their peer groups, without having to spend any effort to do anything, and any complaints of being depressed or saying that they have mental illnesses can be used as a virtue itself. They can go and create dramas, monologing their autistic fanfics, badly drawn porn or loony political theories on internet and still have people taking them seriously in the name of kindness and tolerance now.

Especially now that the society seem to go into full-gear on creating alienation and enabling these people to exist and celebrated online... They're praised of being the height of authenticity and self-actualisation. So now I started to wonder that perhaps, being a lolcow isn't so bad after all. Even enviable and 'admirable', since I don't think anyone has the ability to drop any sense of dignity they have away due to social pressure. Their level of shamelessness and self absorption is hard to match

I think being an responsible citizen with a more 'normal' social life and goals is more fulfilling. But you actually have to put some effort in it. And by having any shred of self-awareness, you will live your life growing up realising a lot of regrets and cringy things you did when you were younger, a maturing process that can be painful. (but ultimately beneficials).

Being a loser lolcowy people does not have to deal with such growing pains because of their sheer lack of self-awareness.

 

[Home Again]

No. Community and connectedness are foundational to being human, but what you're confusing is quality and scale. Lolcows seek and receive validation from their niche online-communities, but the attention is only from other fetishists/retards/lolcows or trolls. The real world, their actual community, is horrified and disgusted by them so the lolcow never receives quality attention. You see them inevitably push harder, scream louder, shit their pants extra because the people they want to notice or love them never will. Any confidence you're seeing as enviable is hollow and doesn't follow them outside.

tldr No, because regardless of twitter follower count, no one worthwhile will ever want to touch them or sleep with them.

 

[Darksy DePhil]

They're cringe, but, in a way, they're free.

 

[Cabelaz]

Ah. Hes finally had the great Kiwi Epiphany!

 

[Idiotron]

In a way, I envy the ones who have absolutely no dignity and they get viral because of that.
You can laugh at them but they make so much money that, in the end, you slaving away for mediocre money for 30 years will make you less than they will make in 1 year.
They will be able to quit anytime they feel like and buy a house in any part of the world on a whim and it won't hurt them financially at all.

Sometimes, especially when times are tough (like, for example, when there's a lockdown because of a Chinese virus), I wish I could just degrade myself for money like that, I would be rich by now if I could.

 

[PaleTay]

Yes, unless you get to the level of people like Wings or Onision where it actually effects your life. Very few of these people are missing out on great accomplishments.

Let's use Alinity as an example, for a mentally ill thot she actually has a pretty nice life and any alternative is worse. Society is at fault to an extent for the state of the world, but none of these people were destined to live perfect lives that they ruined by getting on the internet.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

People who encourage are just as bad as people who mock.