So yeah, suicide on the internet.

Posted by Kenon on Nov. 21, 2008, 1 p.m.

I don't know many details, but someone published his own suicide on justin.tv, and you clearly know how the internet treats events like this:

Like a total asshole.

/b/ is applauding him, Ebaums is taking credit, and Justin.tv is trying to keep lawsuits off of their ass.

Ok, on a side note, or more importantly, I'm going to talk about how my days have been.

Starting two weeks ago, I started receiving emails from some unknown person. Apparantly, they went to my school at some point, and they want to talk to me. Sure, sure. I say. Yeah, you get the point. Days go on, that kind of stuff.

So last week, someone comes up to me. I'm in a bad mood. Very bad mood. Tell them to fuck off before I slice their fingers off with a blade of some sort. Don't remember the details.

Emails come in from the person. Yeah, it was them. I was like "Huh?"

Long story short, now a potential friend thinks I want to cut off their fingers.

And people also think I'm gay. I wonder why. I'm clearly not.

Gonna make my avatar when I get home. I plan to frequent 64d more often.

Comments

Grand-High Gamer 16 years ago

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-150666

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=247864351

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/teen-kills-self.html

Abraham Briggs. Also, irpedobear did it. >:(

What a dumb motherfucker. "Oh noes, the internet is telling me to take more drugs"

Theonlywonderboy 16 years ago

Quote: PY
OH SHIIIIIIIIIII-
Yeah I know, it's like dividing by zero

Castypher 16 years ago

PLatformed is, and always will be…a myth. A children's bedtime story. A nursery rhyme. And finally, a cursing word.

"YOU'D BETTER PLATFORMED PICK UP THE PLATFORMED TRASH YOU PLATFORMED PLATFORMED PLATFORMED **** PLATFORMED!"

Kenon 16 years ago

Platformed Damn it will be more offensive than God Damn it soon.

Mu6502 16 years ago

Suicide=Murder.

SixWinged 16 years ago

Christmas potato <3

[deleted user] 16 years ago

Quote:
Well that's 2chan for you…
2chan had nothing to do with this at all.

I am not surprised in the least, anonyminity lets people do things without consequinces (or at least they feel like it) so it brings out the worst in people. I don't care that that guy died, he's one out of billions of other people I don't know.

Quote:
Ebaums is taking credit
More like /b/ is blaming Ebaums, as has always been the case.

Cesque 16 years ago

First of all, I have ambivalent feelings about the whole "internet asshole response". In some cases, it seems helpful in desacralising concepts which are given too much weight, via the "in your face" attitude. It cheered me up to see YouTube respond to the removal of a Thai-king-offensive video by posting hundreds of king mockeries.

It was like saying, "Hey, people, look, that guy's just a person and it's pathetic to be offended just due to his cultural status - here, have some videos of your king with legs stomping on him".

About the suicide, I mostly don't care. It's the kind of an action-consequence thing. You stream killing yourself, you get asshole responses. You make asshole responses about a suicide, you officially brand yourself (and your community) as an asshole (and a community of assholes).

Second of all, how is watching somebody take pills that interesting?

Quote:
Suicide=Murder.

ScratchingYourButt=Molestation

Nailbiting=Cannibalism

Masturbation=GaySex

EatingBrakfast=OpeningSomeone'sMouthAndForcingThemToEat

RetroX 16 years ago

Quote:
Suicide=Murder.
Hey guys, did know that suicide is against the law.

You could get arrested for murdering yourself.

Castypher 16 years ago

The penalty for suicide is death, idiot.