• Vreyan31@reddthat.com
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    4 days ago

    If you understand that Griffith is not someone anyone should want to emulate, I don’t think this meme is about you anyway.

    This meme is about the insecure dudes who are hurt and angry and decide to channel that into some cringe edge-lord ‘I want to hurt everyone else and feel nothing but that it is my destiny to be on top’ phase.

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      4 days ago

      Is this becoming a big thing somewhere? I have somehow managed to avoid those communities apparently. Or is it tied to a certain age group I don’t fall into?

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        3 days ago

        Becoming? It’s not new. Plenty of people have seen Scarface as a self-made badass instead of the pathetic, neurotic mess of a man he collapses into.

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        This is the part I’m stuck on too lol. People see a couple of trolls online and believe there is a whole community of Griffith worshipers

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          2 days ago

          I think you are forgetting that we are living in an era where “the internet trolls” are proving to be prevalent or at least highly influential in the real world. The US has elected a complete brat twice, the AFD are threatening a fourth reich, and terms like “looksmaxing” have entered the general lexicon.

          No one who watched gamergate occur on in the mid 2010s, and then tried to explain it to normal people who said ‘oh that’s just niche internet drama’, and then watched the rise of the alt-right, is ever going to see dangerous bullshit online and believe it will just stay there ever again.

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          4 days ago

          I was unaware if it was that’s why I figured it was worth asking. I don’t exactly travel the world and my passport is in fact expired lol. So if it isn’t happening locally in my small town I find I may be blind to it

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      4 days ago

      I have a hard time believing that those people represent a demographic larger than just a few online trolls. I think the meme is really about OP feeling smart