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Why does gratitude fill you with rage?
Cuz their acting like this is something to be proud of. It's really not.
Ah I see, that makes sense
Not rage, more disapproval or disgust. And I had to think why it's so unsettling first, but I think I got it:
Because of the vanity of making it about themselves.
Doesn't help that most of the time they get so many upvotes exactly because so many people think the same thing. Simplified, someone posts "what is your favorite color", and they get thousands of upvotes on a comment that says "red". That's not about cumguzzler69's comment writing career.
But no, this is their peaking in highschool moment, gotta make thousands more read some useless fluff text showing they are under the impression everybody thinks they are so great that it warrants an award speech.
That's why it's not the same if it's a long comment where somebody put some real effort into explaining something from their area of expertise, and things like that.
Ah I see thank you for explaining. I'm autistic and I don't get some stuff easily. I never thought of it from this angle.
Honestly, why I clicked on this thread. I didn't understand either, lol. Makes a lot of sense though.
It's cringey but maybe because I never really took imaginary points and likes seriously.
Reminds me of "thanks for the gold kind stranger!" Ughh.
But at the same time I don't get pissed or would hate them for it necessarily, I'd just think it's a little cringe and move on.
I've done that, but only because I thought I was supposed to lol. Since I saw a lot of people doing it at the time, and inferred it was being polite under the logic that you should usually thank someone for a "gift".