Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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    What do you reckon the overlap is between the grown men who are mad about the new pokemon game and our regular subjects?

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        Yeah comeon OP spill the tea, I want my daily dose of drama, which pokémons are those and why are men angry about them 🍵

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          A new pokemon game for switch/switch2 came out (Pokemon Legends Z-A)

          Lots of gamergate smell wafting around gamer reddit, particularly around conspiracy theories regarding reviews. Dudes being compleyely unhinged that it isn’t whatever version they played when they were 10 years old but with AAA graphics. Real normal stuff to reply about 100x in a day.

          It could just be me being defensive about a thing my kids like lol.

          It’s just that my intuition nudges me when I come across that variety of authoritarian confidently incorrect guy who can’t imagine people liking things that they dont like (or vice versa), and who will move worlds to enforce their one true take. It feels like they’re everywhere, fueling most dumb internet social movements. It’s like it could be a small piece of a General Theory of Weird Online Assholes.

          The phenomenon rhymes with Musk Reply Guys, Music Experts Who Hate Taylor Swift Professionally, Claude Code Evangelists, and Star Wars Fandom.