And I use "normal" in scare quotes, because, according to whom, exactly, capitalism? Society? Yourself? Some of the "weirdest" people I've met in my life where also some of the nicest and actually helped me out. People you'd peg as "normal"? Well I've had my fair share of shit with them. I'm not about to put up with some reddit lord trying to score points with cool kid podcasters by throwing people who feed the homeless under the bus, fuck you very much.

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

I don't even follow any "cool kid podcasters" so I must've just learned the "be normal" rhetoric through osmosis, maybe a site tagline here?

There's quite a history of people on the site using the term (only encouraged by their favorite streamer doing it), so it easily could have been from that.

I think it's a great thing that you identified a concern, thought critically about it, and changed your behavior. The above-mentioned users predictably only seem to do so when they feel they are losing the room, so the only thing to be done about it is to make sure they do lose the room, because what is considered acceptable or unacceptable can and sometimes must be changed.