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Oneironaut

(5,500 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 09:53 AM Apr 2015

Saying dumb shit for attention and profit. [View all]

Since this is a thing now, I wish the Internet would stop playing into the hands of the latest horde of scammers, attention-seekers, and general idiots. The latest trend seems to be to wait until the conditions are right, say something so vile and stupid that it pisses most normal people off, and then sick like-minded morons on any resistance.

Another trend is to be an asshole and then mysteriously have a GoFundMe page set up in your name. How convenient. It's almost like people are being scammed or something...

Can the Internet stop falling for such obvious trolling? Of course not. It never will. Not when every idiot with extra cash falls for the same textbook idiocy over and over again.

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Don't blame "the Internet." It's people. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2015 #1
True. You would think that, after the same Oneironaut Apr 2015 #2
once again olddots Apr 2015 #3
God put this OP next to the Bachman OP in Latest Threads for a reason. IADEMO2004 Apr 2015 #4
There has always been stupid... world wide wally Apr 2015 #5
no shit arely staircase Apr 2015 #6
Oh. Sorry... SidDithers Apr 2015 #7
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