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8-Bit Scholar
Jan 23, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
So I see on my Facebook that trending right now on the Twitter is #thetriggering where people express ideas or thoughts or say things that may be construed as offensive out in public under the hash tag, which I can only assume means a lot of people saying unflattering opinions about trans persons and the gay.

This isn't that interesting, but what is is that the Facebook timeline showcases exactly how the various blogs and alt-news sites are reacting to this. Here is a list of headlines you tell me which of these is true and which I made up:

"Internet Jerks Pledge to be Extra Jerky Tomorrow During #TheTriggering"

"Web Trolls & Men's Rights Activists Step Up Hate for #TheTriggering"

"Safe-Space Crybabies Bombarded With Politically Incorrect Truths" INFOWARS DOT COM WE HAVE THE DOCUMENTS

"Bigots on Twitter are Organizing #TheTriggering, a New, Awful Hashtag."

"#TheTriggering Just Took Down PC Culture But Not in the Way You Think."

"SomethingAwful's Lowtax Flees Country Under Suspicion of Sexual Deviancy With Aquatic Animal"

I think The Triggering sounds like a sort of verbal version of the Purge, which is cool in my opinion, but maybe other people don't like it so much, one person even wrote that assigning trigger warnings to books is more or less just assigning spoiler tags or otherwise warning emotionally fragile people that this book may create "emotionally devastating flashbacks" or something like that. Lots of people are saying the word "shitlord" too.

But what are some of the tweets that these news stories are referring to? Let's see how ugly #TheTriggering is:

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/707603071652593665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw



https://twitter.com/_ThatGuyT/status/707529319745097728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw



https://twitter.com/Though_Criminal/status/707678586036051968


My god.

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BigBoss
Jan 26, 2012

by Lowtax
I would be interesting if #TheTriggering actually got a bunch of SJWs to kill themselves. Can you imagine? It would be like "Whoa, I can't believe that worked!" :wth:

Ape Fist
Feb 23, 2007

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want; anal, oral, fisting, but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.

but this is true though

drunk dog
Apr 6, 2014

Resident Millennial
# 9gag @ it again

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
i have no idea what the gently caress youre talking about but you should probably be ashamed of yourself

drunk dog
Apr 6, 2014

Resident Millennial

Enfield posted:

i have no idea what the gently caress youre talking about but you should probably be ashamed of yourself

he should probly also be dead but we wont say that will we ;)

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

drunk dog posted:

he should probly also be dead but we wont say that will we ;)

leave me alone

8-Bit Scholar
Jan 23, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Enfield posted:

leave me alone

I really like your avatar Enfield. Let's be friends.

Ape Fist
Feb 23, 2007

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want; anal, oral, fisting, but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.

Enfield posted:

leave me alone

you leave him alone

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

8-Bit Scholar posted:

I really like your avatar Enfield. Let's be friends.

ok

Turtle Sandbox
Dec 31, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
I dont need an excuse to post the goat man.

vug
Jan 23, 2015

by Cowcaster

BigBoss posted:

I would be interesting if #TheTriggering actually got a bunch of SJWs to kill themselves. Can you imagine? It would be like "Whoa, I can't believe that worked!" :wth:

weed out the weaklings.

Pawl
Sep 9, 2006

I'm seeing this from an AoS perspective.







white primer uber alles
Twitter is the worst, why do people use it

reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Enfield posted:

i have no idea what the gently caress youre talking about but you should probably be ashamed of yourself

Nice micro aggressions I like your style

vug
Jan 23, 2015

by Cowcaster
apparently the girl from the new Star Wars is problematic because she's not obese

drunk dog
Apr 6, 2014

Resident Millennial
dude got probied off a gasthread and it wasnt even showing up



'1 to 0 out of 0'

radium knew

reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD

Pawl
Sep 9, 2006

I'm seeing this from an AoS perspective.







white primer uber alles

The only tweet that matters; past, present, or future

Shut down twitter and replace it with this one tweet

Moltke
May 13, 2009
Can we make GBS a twitter free safe space for shitposting about things that are actually funny

lights_kites
Mar 10, 2016

Moltke posted:

Can we make GBS a twitter free safe space for shitposting about things that are actually funny

triggered

BigBoss
Jan 26, 2012

by Lowtax

Moltke posted:

Can we make GBS a twitter free safe space for shitposting about things that are actually funny

Twitter is dying. GBS will soon be a twitter free space.

lights_kites
Mar 10, 2016
time to do the classics over again

high tax

Shaquin
May 12, 2007
my twitter feed is just people making jokes what are people doing to find so many things that make them mad

Shaquin
May 12, 2007
like I'm pretty sure you have to actively seek things out that make you mad and willingly embroil yourself in them maybe just stop doing that

8-Bit Scholar
Jan 23, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Shaquin posted:

like I'm pretty sure you have to actively seek things out that make you mad and willingly embroil yourself in them maybe just stop doing that

Well it is trending on Facebook, alongside actual news headlines which is

hilarious

and also quite sad in a way.

Smash it Smash hit
Dec 30, 2009

prettay, prettay
oh boy okay going to summarize the next 4 pages.

"lol triggering"

"what are you a MRA"

"tumblr is stupid"

"lol i use tumblr to look at nudes"

"xir xir xir xir pronouns xir xir"

"triggering intensifies"

"lol tumblrina never leaves their home"

Skeleton Ape
Dec 21, 2008



I, for one, am glad that Trump is going to be elected and usher in the end times.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Good. I hope both sides of the issue inflict irreparable damage on one another.

drunk dog
Apr 6, 2014

Resident Millennial
the bigger the flood, the bigger the ark.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

In summary: hashtag planned as bold heroic stance against <THING>, proponents of <THING> decry it as a sign of the apocalypse and proof that no benevolent God could exist; hashtag turns out to be a bunch of really lame burns of no consequence whatsoever

like p much every planned hashtag event Twitter has ever had in other words

Clitch
Feb 26, 2002

I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus
The Fappening was way better.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012


I WRITE

SirEvelynTremble
Dec 25, 2013

FUCK YOU HITLER
STALINGRAD
ROFLMFAO

Beekeeping and You
Sep 27, 2011



having a hashtag to block is really convenient, actually, thanks antisjws

dreezy
Mar 4, 2015

yeah, rip.
for the record, my av is better than enfield's.

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"

dreezy posted:

for the record, my av is better than enfield's.

Tbqh I thought you were a more lucid Enfield, I am shamed :(

yogizh
Oct 12, 2015
Dumb Helicopter Joke Enthusiast
I don't know what a twitter is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izRZQlqXig

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
.
Taco Defender
Trigger warning

old fat bird
Oct 27, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
The reactions are way better than a real talk tweets, "so I'm an sensitive baby that can't handle criticism huh?" *downloads mass blocking app* *continues posting on the worst website on the internert*

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old fat bird
Oct 27, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
my ideas of fighting for equality include yelling RAPE as loud as I can at people in real life and having an extensive life on twitter where I read and care what other unemployed people with lovely tattoos think

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