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through the years realized that through whatever blind groping the \u201890s-ass \u201cedgelords\u201d were desperately trying to save us from this, through proper gatekeeping and filtering

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and at first I\u2019d thought it was gratuitous and supported it being relaxed, maybe not shaming everyone who publicly mourned a suicide, mea culpa, mea culpa, I have debts to pay

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>@siliquasquama\u200b said: wait, what are we being saved from? The public mourning of the suicides of famous people?

exactly

>@tsukutsukuboshi said: seconding the question of what\u2019s been so bad about the public reaction

>@russian-hackers-official said: yea what\u2019s so bad about that

That was how we kept the internet culture from growing mawkish and cry-bullyish: basically, if you were so weak as to get weepy over corpsemeat you got cancelled, the shame would follow you forever and you\u2019d never be allowed to forget it.

Like, you know how from now unto eternity, whenever Tim Buckley gets mentioned someone\u2019s gonna heap shit on him for getting melodramatic and heavy about a character having a miscarriage? That but real. At the time I thought it was too much but ::gestures around::

One of the critical moments I remember most was when Gawker was young, still focused on Manhattan celebrity gossip and young-people-in-publishing industry news, and to comment on it you had to pass an \u201caudition\u201d and if your comments fell below par you\u2019d be ceremoniously removed in Friday \u201cCommenter Execution\u201d posts

And there was some post about a toddler falling out of a high-rise Manhattan apartment window and dying, and some commenter referenced the classic Anal Cunt song \u201cYour Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck\u201d (about Eric Clapton\u2019s kid, who died the same way, inspiring \u201cTears in Heaven\u201d) and some scold huffed that he should show some restraint because A Child Has Died, and then that scold was not featured in that week\u2019s Commenter Executions and I was like \u201chmm, this is an ill omen\u201d, and it was

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