Reformed lolcows?

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joshua connor moon was a cow who used to be edgy and annoying on an online lego clone video game forum then turned around his life and became a respected business owner and started a charity and lost weight
 
Sammyclassicsonicfan got on ADHD meds and then left the internet. ulillillia got a job and still works on his game.
 
Jake Rapp got off the internet and split with his BPD pedophile wife. He DFE'd to remove most of the embarrassing stuff, and is now just a normal guy.
 
The Last Stand said:
Would ProJared count since he was once exposed for cheating on his polygamous wife and taking nude pictures? Now, I think he still has a channel and his credibility back.
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I wouldn't say so. Maybe if he actually keeps his act together long enough its still pretty recent he's bothered at all.

MAYBE Projared? I know he's semi-recovered his channel and I haven't heard anymore shit about him recently. Similar enough issue.
 
Agarathium1066 said:
I wouldn't say so. Maybe if he actually keeps his act together long enough its still pretty recent he's bothered at all.

MAYBE Projared? I know he's semi-recovered his channel and I haven't heard anymore shit about him recently. Similar enough issue.
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It helps that the people involved were worse than him. He did the smart thing by laying low until he had receipts.
 
This more of a philosophical question when it comes to the subject of cows. I don't think a lolcow can ever truly be reformed because they are always going to be that eccentric idiot deep down inside.

The real question is if that eccentric realizes that they shouldn't be on the internet, which is the primary ingredient needed to be a lolcow, does that count as a win? Given that @Polyarmory mentioned Jake Rapp, him and his wife serve as good examples: both of them are still the same human beings they were online. But now they have chosen not to post. Is it reformation to realize you shouldn't post about your fucked up behavior online?
 
Depending on what you consider reformed, Def Noodles might count. Originally started off making commentary, fell down the Ethan Klein orbiter shitlib pipeline, blew his entire life up and disappeared for a year. Apparently he came back though and tried making amends with everyone where he basically acknowledged he lost his fuckin mind. From what I've heard people say about him though is that he actually seemed apologetic and is more or less a normal dude now.

Jobama said:
ulillillia got a job and still works on his game.
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Would he be considered a lolcow though? Like yea he's a mentally retarded OCD sperg, but from what I know he never went out of his way to make an ass out of himself or did cow shit, he just has quirky autistic interests and is obsessed with making his game
 
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Jobama said:
Sammyclassicsonicfan got on ADHD meds and then left the internet.
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I'm very uncomfortable with the idea children can even be lolcows. Part of what makes a lolcow is the idea that they should know better than to act like that. Adults making fun of children reflects worse on the adults doing it than it does on the kids.

I've never agreed with how Jessi Slaughter was treated, for example. Making a kid infamous because their parents are letting them make a fool of themselves on the Internet has never sat right with me.
 
Beautiful Border said:
I'm very uncomfortable with the idea children can even be lolcows. Part of what makes a lolcow is the idea that they should know better than to act like that. Adults making fun of children reflects worse on the adults doing it than it does on the kids.

I've never agreed with how Jessi Slaughter was treated, for example. Making a kid infamous because their parents are letting them make a fool of themselves on the Internet has never sat right with me.
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I've never poked my head in on either of those cause I was never terribly interested with them. But I think part of things like with those two gaining notoriety is that all happened in the late 2000's/early 2010's where the average age of the people that read this sort of stuff (the ED audience and whatnot) tended to skew to that 13 to 16 range, and teenager are fucking AWFUL to other people.
 
Nobody truly reforms, they just decide not to post.
 
The Last Stand said:
Would ProJared count since he was once exposed for cheating on his polygamous wife and taking nude pictures? Now, I think he still has a channel and his credibility back.
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He might've gotten himself out of that mess with the receipts. But he did go up to bat for TheCompletionist when he was knowingly committing fraud. I say for a lolcow to reform isn't just to stop doing your retarded ways, but also to denounce and completely distance yourself from association of other lolcows.
 
Dick Cheney Respecter said:
Cows taking off their camera doesn't mean they're reformed. Do you think ILJ is no longer a lolcow just because she's laying low now and we never heard anything new about her?
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That is my point though. Eccentric people are going to still be eccentric whether or not they decide to post online. However, it is specifically posting online that makes an eccentric person a lolcow.

It raises an interesting question about what actually constitutes reformation when it comes to the subject of cows. Do they have to stop being eccentric all together, something that is likely never going to happen? Or is it just removing that specific internet aspect that makes them a lolcow in the first place?
 
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