So I girded my loins, caffeined myself up, put on some really peppy music and waded back into the swamp that is #TheTriggering — the Twitter hashtag designed to give the internet’s biggest jerks an excuse to be even more jerky than usual.
Having spent a few hours slogging through the hashtag earlier today, I expected to find an endless number of wholly unoriginal, and wholly uninteresting Tweets posted by jerky jerks trying so hard to be offensive it was almost painful to watch. Almost painful, definitely boring.
Ah, but something about the hashtag had changed since I last looked in on it!
The tweets have gotten much less predictable, and a good deal stranger, so much so that the “serious” $TheTriggering Tweets are becoming harder and harder to tell from the deliberately surreal Tweets from puckish SJWs trolling the hashtag.
As far as I can figure it, the “serious” would-be triggerers have, after more than 20 hours of non-stop would-be triggering, simply run out of offensive things to say.
Seriously, how many times can you post “there are only two genders” before everyone gets thoroughly bored by this bit of edginess. Well, ok, a LOT, but never mind that for now, because my point is that the serious would-be triggerers have had to come up with brand-new things to offend people with.
And, well, they’re pretty hilariously bad at it.
https://twitter.com/fwra1234/status/707749386877415424
https://twitter.com/james141980/status/707746965207920640
https://twitter.com/Shmexonaught/status/707748147217338372
Blue is not your colour.#TheTriggering
— SKELTER🇬🇧 (@SKELTER1SKELTER) March 10, 2016
Glaciers are not sexist you retards.#TheTriggering
— PewpSchute (@ThePewpschute) March 10, 2016
Meanwhile, others in the hashtag are descending into incoherence.
https://twitter.com/BothBoat403/status/707747919407898624
https://twitter.com/suainthesack/status/707754729871380480
This guy kind of has a point, though.
https://twitter.com/LIVE_In_Reverse/status/707748022235631616
And this guy is pretty good at parodying #TheTriggering Tweets.
Blind people just need to try harder. #TheTriggering
— Whatever Forever (@Scotch_Sailor) March 10, 2016
I just think we should be able to say "breasticles" at work, ok? #TheTriggering
— Whatever Forever (@Scotch_Sailor) March 10, 2016
Hey, he even made the same Trump steaks joke I made a few days ago:
@Ncoleycole @NatalieLanovill Are they made of real trump?
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) March 4, 2016
Trump steaks are made from genuine Trump, right?
— Whatever Forever (@Scotch_Sailor) March 5, 2016
Oh, sure, there are still some #TheTriggering Tweets that actually are kind of alarming.
https://twitter.com/HreAmngthDed33/status/707746850045104129
https://twitter.com/ArchHighLord/status/707746700115447809
And lots of standard-issue white supremacist crap.
https://twitter.com/OnlyCincinnatus/status/707746782038523904
https://twitter.com/TrumpHat/status/707749420989882368
https://twitter.com/AHitler88NSDAP/status/707748904016568320
But at this point the serious Tweets are giving way to Tweets that are just surreal. (And no, these aren’t all from SJWs trolling the hashtag.)
https://twitter.com/AngryComicist/status/707747638641168385
https://twitter.com/AngryComicist/status/707753688937332736
#thetriggering pic.twitter.com/usIXyTY0Hl
— Le SJW xD (@waifuscotland) March 10, 2016
https://twitter.com/blakebelladonna/status/707775628083388417
Honestly, that’s the most terrifying thing I’ve seen so far in #TheTriggering.
The hotdog or the Trump…thing?
Okay… that pic of Trump in the second-to-last tweet is genuinely terrifying…
That’s the thing with these clowns.
they’re basically all rehashing my grandfather’s prejudices. Nothing original or edgy about them.
As if stagnation were somehow cutting edge, or ignorance.
I talked to a trump supporter recently online. It was a mind so small you could fit it in a teaspoon.
Tessa, I meant the hotdog. I’ve seen creepier Trump photoshops. Like this one:
https://twitter.com/Smingleigh/status/702214152241152001
Deep dish pizza is delicious
#thetriggering
That’s how I felt reading most of them. “What’s that Great Uncle Frank? Korean food smells weird? Ok, let’s get you into bed. No, you don’t need another glass before you go. No, I didn’t know that about Italians… Well, if you say so, but it’s news to me. Ok, there you go, try not to snore too loud or you’ll wake Auntie Marjory. G’night!”
I think it’s OK for black people to appear in movies. #TheTriggering
Crap. Mass shooting in Pittsburgh.
Not another shooting. Yet guns aren’t a problem here. *eyeroll* *sigh*
As for the triggering. . . . Wow. Lame. Weird crap, some idiotic views on abortion, the usual racist crap and the belief that feminists are ugly Fatty McFatsters.
Yeah. I’m so triggered now.
Another shooting??? Jebus, so sorry to hear that :(.
And I’m not clicking on David’s “even creepier Trump” link because the one actually pictured in the post is terrifying enough.
Agree, too, that this whole triggering thing is just embarrassing; so, so much lamer than I’d expected… that’s a … good thing?
I just saw this, and Jeebus Crabst I hope it’s for real…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/11535405/How-do-you-stop-Twitter-trolls-Unleash-a-robot-swarm-to-troll-them-back.html
The Triggering so far is an object lesson in the banality of evil. They’re not saying anything new or shocking or different from what they say at any other time of the year.
I wonder if they’ve noticed this.
That gun lady one made me think of this
I tried to reply to posts with #thetiggering but soon got bored.
Plus I had stuff to do, you know, like kids to take care of. I know Richard Herring had his baby to take care of but by his own admission he ate less than usual. He’s made of sterner stuff than I.
Funny thing, Scandinavians are supposed to be amongst the happiest people in the world. Mutual poverty isn’t fun, but people are generally much happier if everyone is poor than if there is a huge wealth divide. Democracy and caring for the less fortunate is good for the soul.
http://carolinecalcote.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/20120911-dsc00241.jpg
Grill…toaster…not the best place to put a penis. Even a detachable one, ostensibly a good choice for someone who needs to leave it at home occasionally to avoid trouble. And doesn’t have skeevy roommates that are prone to theft.
@David
Oh god David, why?!?!? I should not have clicked on that link, now I’m going to be having flashbacks of that all day. Anyone reading, click at your own risk. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. That’s just…ew. Still not as disturbing as when Ted Cruz ate a booger, though.
And these try-hards are so boring. Do they honestly think that their ideas are original, new, or fresh in any way? As if people haven’t been saying stuff like that for years and years. Yawn. Nobody is “triggered” by this bullshit. As if our poor, sheltered SJW hearts have never been exposed to such radical, shocking ideas before. Racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/fatphobic/horrible people in general exist? *gasp!* I HAD NO IDEA!!!! My poor sensitive self can’t handle all these definite, totally real truths about the way things are!!! I think I’m gonna go curl up in a corner and cry, defeated.
Please. As if “SJWs” don’t hear literally all of this shit on a daily basis. You’re not new or original, honey. You’re the status quo.
Also:
-Fat people are allowed to eat. In public! #TheTriggering
-I went to the park today and saw more than one black person. Like, out mingling with the white people! #TheTriggering
-Gay and trans people exist. #TheTriggering
-It is not illegal for women to reject you. #TheTriggering
-It is not illegal to date outside one’s own race. #TheTriggering
-People besides you are allowed rights and bodily autonomy. #TheUltimateTriggering
Dan Kasteray:
They want to go back when it was OK to be publicly racist, sexist, homophobic, etc and nobody would call them out, or judge them. People thinking they’re asses is the height of pc culture gone awry!
When they say “freedom of speech” they mean “Freedom from judgement for what they say”
Those are excellent, Social Justice Warrior! They gave me a smiley morning.
Doesn’t the hashtag technically serve as a trigger warning? That’s a very SJW thing to do. I commend them for it!
@EJ
I’m glad you like them! 🙂 I needed something to distract myself from remembering that Trump pic, which kinda reminds me of something from Silent Hill now that I think about it. *shivers*
Okay, that weird Trump/toad thing did trigger me. I’m not sure what it triggered, maybe I was a dragonfly in a former life?
This does serve an interesting purpose though. It shows, that since they aren’t actually able to offend people on purpose, it means they lack a basic understanding of what offends/triggers people. So when problematic content in media is pointed out, they just hear “bla bla, criticising thing I like, bla bla sjws hate boobies, bla bla” instead of understanding context, reason, nuance, or whatever.
Looking at what I just wrote, we knew all this already, so never mind, carry on…
The hot dog picture is pilfered from one of the satirical responses to Jeb Bush’s campaign tweet “America”. God, these people can’t even pretend to be original.