Comradeship // Freechat

100%. Following Chris-Chan a bit in my teens around 2010, seeing that video of Drachenlord proposing to that girl pretending to be his girlfriend only to get relentlessly mocked for it, and finding out about the sad hive of Cinemassacre "Truthers" deriving entertainment from hate watching James Rolfe/AVGN instead of just moving on with their lives taught me all I needed to know about how sad and bullying adjacent lolcow culture is.
It's always conservatives and libs engaging with it too. Go figure.

It is very pathetic to me. Like is there nothing better they can do? Just enjoy life idk play a game even learn something just do anything except that. I never understood it. Like if i told anyone close to me that i hatewatch someone and explained what it means, i would get weird looks, justifibly so.

I think it's bad and think it's even more pathetic some people spend their time watching a livestream of this person just to "clipfarm" them for internet points that hold no value

well...i have to admit that i like sometimes reading some articles in places like kiwifarms or sonichu.com because there's people kinda pintoresque that otherwise i'd never know. i'm kinda acknowledge the archival part of their mission for showing people that abusing your mother is not a good idea, trying to "seduce" women using sweaty tank tops with "date with me" written with sharpie, and act like a nazi when you'd probably be a victim of aktion t4 are good teachings

the lolcow "culture" is the issue: there's antisocial people who enjoy making suffer people just for their amusement, and sites like kiwifarms are currently filled with transphobic people, because they're traumatized that keffals almost make them bite the dust

I have an experience with being abused in a certain community by a person who later got lolcowed there for other stuff. Them being a lolcow didn't help me at all.

• Part of community that considered them a lolcow minimized their abusive behavior and its impact on me.
• Part of community that didn't participate in that was conditioned to see them as a victim rather than an abuser and pushes me away.

Wrong criticism can easily distract from deserved criticism.

Like criticism of Harry Potter from position of religious fundamentalism protected it from legitimate criticism of neoliberal bullshit it feeds children with.

9/10 times its just thinly veiled ableism or homophobia dressed up in a plausibly deniable new coat of paint, to not socially ostracize them.

I've broken up with someone over this, found out they where a regular on kiwifarms and talked to them about it, they just doubled down.

Cya!

i think one of the saddest parts of lolcow culture is that, 9 times out of 10, the subject of mockery has no choice but to pander to the whims of their bullying audience due to being homeless, disabled, or otherwise materially desperate. what social support they do have access to is usually sabotaged by the lolcow audience as much as possible. it is incredibly cruel.

I only became aware of Kiwifarms after the protest started by that Canadian transgender person (I think she is a streamer). I really don't like how sites like Kiwifarms are allowed to exist.

Agreed. Lolcow culture has always been garbage that attracts the worst people. There's a reason one of the biggest examples of it turned into one of the most toxic websites currently active.

Yeah it is inherently reactionary and gross

I was only vaguely aware this is a thing. Having read through the thread, I'm sad to have found a new way to be disgusted with the cultural habits people can come up with. Though I'm tempted to say something like anti-culture instead because this definitely sounds like organized anti-social behavior. What is even the material benefit? Is the link to ableism because the goal is to push people who are "different" down, lest they be normalized as a regular person? Is it some sociopaths doing random sadism?

I guess I'm trying to do the scientific socialist thing and understand the cause.

lolcow culture is just the super-spreader vector for fascist rhetoric.

I agree. Infinte gulags upon everyone who partakes in it.

What is lolcow culture?

I'm okay with it when it's not punching down.

There was a wealthy lifestyle guru who made rounds on Bluesky a year or so ago. His whole shtick was showing off his "daily routine" and linking this to his "success" and became an instant lolcow for a video he made. Just about every frame there was something ridiculous to pick apart from breaking up a banana to eat it piece by piece instead of eating it normally and then rubbing the peel on his face, to jumping in the pool after exercising without taking a shower first, to needing his girl to make him breakfast and cut his food for him, to doing laps in a pool that wasn't made for laps, to inconsistent time stamps (jumps off a diving board but doesn't land in the pool until 3 minutes later), to a very obviously fake scene where he was allegedly trading stocks and calling this "work", to running on a treadmill so fast and aggressively that it wasn't stamina efficient and looked more like he was running away from a bear than actually exercising, among many other moments meant to make him look more impressive than he was.

The whole video was basically him saying if you live like him you can be as successful as he is. It was very obviously nonsense; that wasn't his daily routine, he did not live his life like that. It was just a complete performance meant to con people and he got ruthlessly ratio'd across the site for it. That, in my view, is what a lolcow should be. Mocking people with disabilities is just bullying.