Keyboard Wars (old post)
After reading the second article on twitter wars I felt almost exasperated. It seemed as if the entire situation was just a small issue that had escalated to a point where it was blown out of proportion.
Though the whole situation was likely much more complex and difficult than I realize, I still think that their disagreements would have been much better settled in person rather than over Twitter.
Twitter wars involving online personalities/comedians like Wendy's twitter page, youtubers, meme accounts, etcetera are usually light and humorous. However, twitter wars over actual personal conflicts are, in my opinion, extremely childish and pointless, almost as if both sides would rather engage in the adrenaline of a simulated catfight, and rally the support and validation of all those who care to listen in rather than solving the disagreement like mature adults.
I myself have had my share of online beef, but I never aired my dirty laundry publicly nor continued to heat an argument I knew was pointless. To answer the last question, I don't think that legal punishment for online interactions (apart from genuine sexual harassment, sharing of child pornography, buying black market items, etc) is even relevant when someone could be doxxed so easily for it.
After all this talk about pointless twitter wars, I'd like to bring some attention to a genuinely humorous internet war with equally unmeaningful irl repercussions; the 4chan Tumblr Wars.
In the days leading up to Independence Day of 2014, a post was uploaded, shared, and popularized in Tumblr. The post was a call of arms for avid Tumblr users to raid the imageboard website 4chan, to celebrate their independence and freedom from misogynists and racists.
On Independence day, roughly 500 Tumblr users spammed 4chan with comics, stories, poetry, puppies, feminist memes, etcetera. After less than an hour the Tumblr users had retreated.
However, the war was far from over. For the next two whole days, the estimated 20 4chan users triggered countless Tumblr users and spammed all tags with porn, gore, and even bricked 41 computers in a prank where they posed as Tumblr loyalists.
There exists a conspiracy that the original post that incited the war was actually a 4chan user again pretending to be a Tumblr user.
The "Internet Historian" channel on youtube made a great video on it, and there is also an encyclopedia article on it though I would advise that you would probably not enjoy it much.
Though the whole situation was likely much more complex and difficult than I realize, I still think that their disagreements would have been much better settled in person rather than over Twitter.
Twitter wars involving online personalities/comedians like Wendy's twitter page, youtubers, meme accounts, etcetera are usually light and humorous. However, twitter wars over actual personal conflicts are, in my opinion, extremely childish and pointless, almost as if both sides would rather engage in the adrenaline of a simulated catfight, and rally the support and validation of all those who care to listen in rather than solving the disagreement like mature adults.
I myself have had my share of online beef, but I never aired my dirty laundry publicly nor continued to heat an argument I knew was pointless. To answer the last question, I don't think that legal punishment for online interactions (apart from genuine sexual harassment, sharing of child pornography, buying black market items, etc) is even relevant when someone could be doxxed so easily for it.
After all this talk about pointless twitter wars, I'd like to bring some attention to a genuinely humorous internet war with equally unmeaningful irl repercussions; the 4chan Tumblr Wars.
In the days leading up to Independence Day of 2014, a post was uploaded, shared, and popularized in Tumblr. The post was a call of arms for avid Tumblr users to raid the imageboard website 4chan, to celebrate their independence and freedom from misogynists and racists.
On Independence day, roughly 500 Tumblr users spammed 4chan with comics, stories, poetry, puppies, feminist memes, etcetera. After less than an hour the Tumblr users had retreated.
However, the war was far from over. For the next two whole days, the estimated 20 4chan users triggered countless Tumblr users and spammed all tags with porn, gore, and even bricked 41 computers in a prank where they posed as Tumblr loyalists.
There exists a conspiracy that the original post that incited the war was actually a 4chan user again pretending to be a Tumblr user.
The "Internet Historian" channel on youtube made a great video on it, and there is also an encyclopedia article on it though I would advise that you would probably not enjoy it much.
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