When is the right time to discuss lolcows with your family? - Yes, this is 100% serious and not trolling.

[NoodleFucker3000]

One of my cousins has an autistic son who is like, a preteen who LOVES YouTube. Hes always on youtube and my cousin monitors him carefully. He is a good kid, all he likes to do is play with puppets and make little scenes with them. It's cute and harmless. My family wants to encourage him to get on social media, and post his son's work for other disabled children. Tbh I'm really happy that despite the difficulties they have had, that part of my family is so loving and I'm really proud if my cousin. My whole family is.

But, as a long time observer of internet disasters, I'm scared that this kid is going to get abused like Chrischan. Hes not violent, but he is visibly disabled and that alone might make him a target on social media.

How does one discourage this? Obviously I'm not a parent or even an authority figure but I've seen in detail how social media, even with good intentions can go off the rails and really hurt families and I feel like I should say something because I know that nobody else in my family is up to date on internet and social media culture or would even consider the possibility of strsngers being mean to this kid.

 

[Haramburger]

There's plenty of amateur puppet shows or other oddball projects out there for extremely niche( or no) audiences. If it's a video series, find out if they have any intentions of it becoming actually popular. It's unlikely anyways, but you could protect it by keeping them unlisted and only sharing in autistic parent friend groups on facebook and the like. It could also be facebook-only video which would help privatize and beam it towards only the intended audiences.

Chris-chan took off because his Sonichu comics were very detailed and relevant to /v/ and other game communities, which had broad appeal. Most handicapped or impared folk's work is faaaar less interesting or high quality to mock. You generally don't need to intervene at all IMO.

I wouldn't admit to those parents that you're a KF user at all. Even from a proactive, protective perspective, you're just going to look like a stalker craving attention by broadcasting that and this site. This site and what we engage with & follow is normie repellent.

 

[Bassomatic]

You don't have to get into cows cow watching etc, in fact I suggest you don't. Unless they know the film grey gardens. Explain the net has a lot of that, and if you think day time tv can take the piss out of someone like Jerry Springer etc, remind them the net is worse.

In regards to not becoming a cow, while spergy/mentally ill/niche don't react. #1 people get bored and move on. Bullies/cow watchers have short attention spans and so many fish in the sea.

I'd say if they do it let the parents mod the comments, and make them aware people are gonna shit talk to do it just ignore or delete. I mean you could save a drowning panda bear and people are gonna dunk on you, such is the net.

But keep in your little circle produce content, don't fight with trolls and you can go do almost anything online with out too much back fire.

 

[soft kitty]

Don't discourage them and post all their content here.

 

[DidYouJustSayThat]

PROTIP: you can get one of these laser projectors, that connect to your phone wirelessly pretty cheap these days and you can present the powerpoint slides about the latest development of your favourite lolcows much easier now - don't need to lug your laptop along, whenever you're visiting your family.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

If you're worried about your extended family, you can ask to be a moderator for the social media comments so you can keep an eye out for any waves that'll come the kid's way to keep some of the weight off your cousin's shoulders. I don't know if you could ever bring up OPL as an example, but since you have more online experience and you know people bring all kinds of attention, good and bad, to themselves, you'd be the best bet as a conduit.

For the thread title's question at hand, that's a tough one. My brothers are aware of lolcow antics since we talk about a lot of weird stuff together, however, I've considered bringing up Chris-chan in conversation with my mom since she works with special ed, but I have not been able to find the right time to segue into it. For non-special ed cases, I wanted to bring up Russell Greer for the lulz since despite Tay-Tay's recent involvement in politics and having her own drama, I feel bad for her that such a creepy guy latched himself on to her and has tried time and time again to get her to notice him. It's not unheard of for famous people to get stalkers/threats of lawsuits, but Greer's a different case, and his background alone would garner interest in a conversation with family.

Even though lolcows serve as excellent cautionary tales, as a conversation starter, it's such a niche topic outside of the Internet that it's going to have to be on you to make the call. You might get weird stares, but everything about the Internet culture garners stares from normies. I'm sure even back in the day, gawking at circus freaks and other eccentricities was considered a weird, niche interest, and now that furries, of all things, are becoming more mainstream, having someone to relay similar discomforts with sounds like a blessing in disguise.

 

[NoodleFucker3000]

There's plenty of amateur puppet shows or other oddball projects out there for extremely niche( or no) audiences. If it's a video series, find out if they have any intentions of it becoming actually popular. It's unlikely anyways, but you could protect it by keeping them unlisted and only sharing in autistic parent friend groups on facebook and the like. It could also be facebook-only video which would help privatize and beam it towards only the intended audiences.

Chris-chan took off because his Sonichu comics were very detailed and relevant to /v/ and other game communities, which had broad appeal. Most handicapped or impared folk's work is faaaar less interesting or high quality to mock. You generally don't need to intervene at all IMO.

I wouldn't admit to those parents that you're a KF user at all. Even from a proactive, protective perspective, you're just going to look like a stalker craving attention by broadcasting that and this site. This site and what we engage with & follow is normie repellent.

Thanks for the helpful input. I'm just going to let them know about internet privacy and how to make videos exclusive and not about the lolcow community.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Never.

I've found that most people just don't care about this shit or at least don't find it nearly as funny or interesting as I do.

At best they'll just think it's weird and not care. At worst they'll think you're some kind of bully stalker.

Translation: NORMIES GET OUT!

 

[DumbDude42]

My family wants to encourage him to get on social media, and post his son's work for other disabled children.

DON'T

don't fucking go out of your way to put your tard kid on public display, it's that simple. he doesn't need the attention, only bad things can come of it. leave him to make his little puppet scenes if he enjoys it, and keep it offline. there is literally no reason to put it on the web. there's nothing to be gained from it, but plenty to be lost - your privacy, dignity, sanity, etc.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

About the OP, it's more dangerous and likely that the kids gets dragged into pedo/tranny than becoming a full on lolcow and I'd advise the cousin to watch for the comments the kid gets.

As for in general, depends if the person will actually care. It's better to just focus on lolcows that once had an internet following by the person before getting off the rails.

 

[Coffee Shits]

Hiding your powerlevel goes both ways. Unless you know for sure who are talking to is an avid Farmer, referencing a specific lolcow or just mentioning them as a group will make you look weird, at best.

There's plenty of things to learn and take to heart ranging from protecting your anonymity to not sperging in full view, but framing it using CWC or Yaniv or Wu as your exemplars will not help. And if it's not even your kid? It is not your responsibility. By all means, voice your concern, in private and where appropriate, but sometimes, all you can do is watch the kid splash around in the gasoline puddle and burn the building down.

 

[snailslime]

do you really not have better things to discuss with your family members?

 

[Demonslayer1776]

Just let it go through and then make a thread on him, the problem will sort itself out. We either get fresh content to laugh at, or his parents will be straightened out real fast. It's a win-win.

 

[NoodleFucker3000]

do you really not have better things to discuss with your family members?

Not what I was asking about but most of jhvftuends know about my watching lolcow docs and stuff. this internet obscure dumpsterfire watching stuff would probably fascinate them as well. I explain as "reality TV but not on tv" or "dr.phil or Jerry Springer but with zero budget". Nobody thinks it's weird but also I dont interact with cows at all

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

I tell my Dad about shit I see on here all the time, especially if there's been a shooting. He asked me specifically to e-mail him the video of the Tarant County Church shooting.

 

[Niggernerd]

I've not done it intentionally but if your siblings are normies its pretty autistic dealing with their logic on what we find entertaining.
I was watching Metokurs zoophilia stream awhile back, sister and her boyfriend walk past and ask "what are you watching??" Tell them a stream shitting on a bunch of sick fucking furries and all the shit with zoosadist. and according to them, hating furries makes me one?
Then i was called a dick by my sis for watching mad at the internet. (which was the kays cooking stream) because jersh was laughing at the amount of butter kay used? I don't know how that's even a dickish thing.

Idek normies are fucking exceptional and that's coming from a dude that reads about weirdos on the internet.

 

[Perspicacity]

Keep it off the internet. As cute as what your describing sounds the internet is an evil place, it's just not for children. The odds are the video will be up and almost no one will ever know watch it. However things can always go wrong.... He can perform at his school or something. Poor little bumpity boo comes to mind.

 

[Surf and TERF]

Talk to the parents and provide compelling examples that don't involve exposing your kiwifarms account.

 

[L50LasPak]

Its just a sign of the times. Discourage attention-seeking behavior? Then your kids stop talking to other people. Encourage it? Then they might go out of control. Its a pretty uncertain situation. I'm never having kids.

(I know its not your kid but the same principle applies)

I dunno if technology did this to us or if its always been there lurking in the dark, but it seems like social interaction and human development seem to have hit a strange roadblock we can't really figure out yet.

 

[A Logging Company]

I've been having similar thoughts about my nephew. He's not autistic and displays basic social savvy, but he is really into Youtube and Youtubers. He is still too young to have social media accounts, but I want to give him a talk about don't say anything online you would not say in person, and if you do to use separate usernames, registration emails, and passwords on each.

I've already been trying to engrain the phrase "Youtubers equals scum" into his mind.