Today is the day of the Twitter tantrum known as #TheTriggering, a contrived hashtag in which the Internet’s biggest jerks have decided to post crap that is slightly more jerky than the crap they usually post.
I’ve been poking around in the hashtag for a couple of hours and I have to say it’s pretty underwhelming. There’s a great deal of highly predictable racism, transphobia, and misogyny. There are anime-avatarred fat shamers, Anita Sarkeesian haters pitching fits, Trump fans joking about the Holocaust, and even a few Men’s Rights activists. The hashtag reeks of undeserved self-satisfaction.
The only genuinely funny or original Tweets in the hashtag come from the feminists and other so-called Social Justice Warriors who’ve crashed the party with Tweets intended to trigger the triggerers.
And yet I have somehow managed to find a few lessons in all of this. And so, without further ado, here are The Top Ten Things I’ve Learned from the Twitter Tantrum that is #TheTriggering (So Far).
1) Fat haters don’t proofread their tweets very carefully:
https://twitter.com/FMLItSux/status/707548031994957824
https://twitter.com/DidymusTam/status/707546927395692544
2) And neither do racists:
https://twitter.com/goysheckles/status/707580339028369409
3) Blah blah blah blah blah blah vaginas
https://twitter.com/LeifLJones/status/707529181576364032
https://twitter.com/FuckTwatter001/status/707464746640007170
https://twitter.com/defunked/status/707579493955846144
4) Blah blah blah blah blah blah cucks
https://twitter.com/HuemanGarbage/status/707621864865042432
Feminism is trying to turn all straight white males into faggots, trans and cucks #TheTriggering
— MR MARMITE (@Mr_Marmite247) March 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/henrybrrtt/status/707424084833882112
Hitler was misunderstood, Trump is misunderstood, all you liberal cucks are latinophobes, nver talk about moving to Mexico #thetriggering
— Vali-Norse God of Revenge (@footbrawler) March 9, 2016
5) There’s a weird overlap between #TheTriggering participants and dudes who almost certainly did very poorly on the analogies questions on the SAT
https://twitter.com/CreggehBroon/status/707580834627362817
6) There’s also a weird overlap between Trump supporters, castration advocates, revenge porn lovers, and haters of Marilyn Monroe. That overlap calls himself “Riv.”
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707445270091571202
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707610635513761794
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707607734406017026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/StopRiv2016/status/707548913000128513
7) Words can’t hurt you …
#thetriggering if you are hurt by words you should not be not the Internet.
— Mordred Pendragon (@M0rdredPendrag0) March 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/HEWHiGHROLLER/status/707527496674189312
8) Except when they can
https://twitter.com/willieromeburns/status/707580935693213696
9) Bernie Sanders may be a slackjawed grocery-store farter
https://twitter.com/jesslutty/status/707442394699079680
10) It’s somehow unfair for the media to point out offensive tweets in a hashtag devoted to posting offensive tweets
The media will ignore the 99.99% of smart #TheTriggering tweets and write about the tiny fraction of ones that are actually racist.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 9, 2016
I imagine I will learn more lessons from #TheTriggering before the day is done.
Um, if you’re saying that Trump is in fact like Hitler, then OK, but I thought you folks got upset when we said that…
I found it more than a little amusing that the replies to your “trigger the triggerers” example are a lot more scathing than the original tweet.
This is the best you’ve got?
You just posted a couple of comments and slapped labels on them according to your subjective take…eat shit, useless moron!
These tweets just reek of trying too hard. I’m not really offended more like sad and shaking my head in pity at these poor souls.
#TheTriggering: Just when you think MRAs can’t get any dumber…
I don’t know why I find this entire thing absolutely hilarious. The idea that these people are vile all day, every day, so there’s nothing special about their vileness today, is what seems to be catching me.
Also people tweeting stuff meant to trigger them right back.
They’re like a toddler shitting in the pool and giggling about it. Except the pool was already full of shit, because it’s Twitter.
Saw people suggesting a counter-movement by way of parody in David’s last post. Already got one going from my old Milo pisstake account:
https://twitter.com/N3r0M1l0
Couldn’t resist stealing some of the suggestions, they were quality.
“The media will ignore the 99.99% of smart #TheTriggering tweets and write about the tiny fraction of ones that are actually racist.”
Why isn’t anybody taking our shitposting seriously?!?!?!
I can’t decide if we are expecting too much from the people who think this hashtag is clever or too little. I almost pity them…almost.
Oh yes, FuckTwatter001 sounds like an expert on Aztec culture, I’ll be subscribing to their newsletter.
If anyone’s bored, Jenny Trout’s been playing with them for a few hours, gotten some laughs out of that.
Trying to figure out what makes these hateful losers tick is like sticking your hand in an unflushed toilet.
The Triggering: Business as usual, but just with a new hashtag.
What I learned from #thetriggering is that trans people exist because capitalism has raised our standard of living to the point where transition is affordable and that an economic crisis would cause trans people to reevaluate their priorities. I also learned, from the same guy, that it’s unreasonable to characterize that attitude as wishing harm on total strangers.
99% of these attention whores really make the rest look bad, you know?
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I really do wonder when these folks are gonna get over Anita Sarkeesian, et. al. But I guess this is what happens when folks wrap-up big chunks of their identity in fostering scorn for particular people.
MD appears to be outraged over this post. Does that make xir an SJW?
“the tiny fraction that is actually racist”
there is not enough laughing-until-I-cry emojii in the entire internet for this.
I eagerly await the moment when MD returns to explain the objective and totally coherent interpretation of these tweets. I have no doubt whatsoever that this happy event will take place momentarily.
Thank you for helping me to be able to laugh at this 🙂
MD: I can’t tell if you meant that as a parody or not. Well done.
Shitposter: I hate PC culture. People shouldn’t be so sensitive.
Same shitposter: waaaaah you generalised white, cis men. That’s not faaaiirrrrrr.
Yeah, nice try, shitposters. All you’ve done here is demonstrate that you’re really shitty people. Like, do you even understand what triggering means? That someone has been through something traumatic and is reminded of it. Do you let off firecrackers behind veterans? Or is it just rape survivors and victims of hate crime that you find it funny to further victimise because your privilege makes you statistically unlikely to go through what they’ve been through?
Never mind, I’ve answered my own question.
I hope we get at least one quality troll out of this instead of just drive-bys.
You’re a humanist and not a feminist?
Sarkeesian is both. Check mate, gamer-goobers!
#thetriggering
But there might be a wallet with a safe code in there!
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