Why do you follow lolcows?

[x.eight.six.systems]

Because I find lolcows funny.

 

[The Knife's Husbando]

It's an equal mix of academic fascination, can't-turn-away-train-wreck nauseated amazement, an the fact that they're funny as hell in their antics.

 

[TheWhitestKnight]

Personally, I'm interested in the way people respond to it when people do inexplicable, backwards shit. If it's like watching a train-wreck, I guess I'm interested in the kind of things that happen when trains wreck. It's not the most scientific way of going about things, but neither is watching train-wrecks, or watching sports or anything.

Like, you can go to school for kinesiology, or sports medicine, or sports law, or the philosophy of sport, or whatever, or you can just watch sports. You get different stuff out of it. Probably less if you just watch.

But still.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

You know how cars slow down on a highway when there's an accident, or how when there's an outburst or confrontation in a public place, everyone stops and stares? It's kind of the same reason.

 

[The_Hissing_Vigilant]

The same thing I said in a post earlier regarding Casey decker. How one can live without ambition, goals or anything that adults have in their adult Life. Not trying to compare myself. I'm quite the late bloomer and was an ex lolcow once upon a time.

Watching an lolcow was like the time I put a dead bird I found in a jar. Just to watch it decay out of morbid fascination.

Not having to pay for cable to get my daily dose of drama. That too.

 

[Conrix]

Lolcows are just an extension to my fascination with the darkness that lurks in the human mind, to me. I've been fascinated with this sort of thing since I was at least a teenager. I'm not entirely sure why I wanted to know what was going on in these dark minds, I'm not even sure if seeing one thing in a movie my dad watched or a game I may have played triggered my fascination with the dark side of humanity, but to this day whenever I'm looking at things about serial killers, child molesters, or even lolcows and shuddercows, I wonder to myself what goes on in their heads. Equal parts morbid curiosity and wondering what ED had to say at the time I'd first seen the site had me sifting through it and seeing what shit they had to say about things I liked or the drama related to them. Eventually a faked Doom screenshot pointed me to the page for OPL, followed by watching the CWCki and the associated forums for anything he might do next and learning about some pretty lulzy and fucked up people in the process, like ADF, Nick Bate, NephilimFree, Golden Knight, etc.

tl;dr: A mix of morbid fascination and Schadenfreude.

 

[Adamska]

An ecletic mix of loving to watch people with bloated egos fail to their own iniquities, the sheer insanity of the things they say at times, and the fact that I share some traits with them that irritate me on a subconscious level.

 

[Afinepickle]

For me they're largely an intellectual curiosity. I like trying to figure out their thought processes.

That coupled with morbid fascination of course.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Lolcows are just an extension to my fascination with the darkness that lurks in the human mind, to me.

There's definitely an aspect of that with me. I'm fascinated by minds that don't work quite right - cult leaders, conspiracy theorists, dictators and so forth. Lolcows are light relief by comparison. Except Deeker, of course.

 

[DeagleDad420]

Watching people fail horribly at shit is really funny. Lolcows are the logical peak of that.

 

[applecat]

The same reason people read People magazine or watch TMZ, except this free and a lot stranger.

 

[Joan Nyan]

Better than the crap on TV.

 

[zen]

I follow Pixyteri because she amazes me with her existence and delusion, and she makes me feel happier about myself.