I'd Like to Announce My Departure from Masochist

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By Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker
December 7, 2022

I’ve been a Masochist user for more than a decade now, but I’m afraid that my time on this platform has come to an end. The Masochist app has seen me go from a young, single, childless person to an older, less healthy person at the tail end of my first divorce, with two, maybe three, kids.

I’ve really enjoyed sharing my posts (“cries for help,” as Masochist calls them) with other “masochists” whom I’ve come to know through this platform. And I’ve loved seeing all of your cries for help as well. Whether I was simply making sure that you were also miserable or berating you for your content, at Masochist I always felt like I was part of a community—a deeply unhealthy family, if you will—that I will keep with me as I venture forth in my offline life and try to figure out exactly how many kids I have and what their full names are.

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I will miss the reliable torture I received on Masochist—be it from strangers calling me horrible names, or from friends and family, also calling me horrible names. And I will miss reciprocating that pain, as is the way in a true community.

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If you’d still like to keep in touch online, you can find me over on Facepalm, where I have traded my privacy to be flattened with a different anvil on a regular basis.
- more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/id-like-to-announce-my-departure-from-masochist

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. I'm more a FetLife kinda guy myself

[central scrutinizer]

2. I use godwin.net

Where you try to be first to call someone a Nazi

[TigressDem]

3. It used to be possible to exceed the crazy with high sarcasm, but they raised the bar.

Trying to imagine the extent of their willingness to assault humanity for the sake of Oligarchs who own their "whatever" is a brain game that is less and less worth the few laughs I get thinking about how crazy they are.

How did we get here?


Kudos for those who try to shine the light, but looking at the cockroaches crawling out and saying, "WHAT do you want?" is not one of my favorite things. Even if hot water and bleach makes them go away, the image is still there.