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.
@kylagb:
Don’t you know that friendliness and flowers are misandry?
Hello.
Uh, reading too fast is pretty dangerous. I was reading Groper Incel rather than Gopher Icicle. I need a nap.
By the way, what are thunder thighs ? Is it something linked to Thor ? Or to someone kicking so fast that her/his thighs produce lightning ?
“So, Wrrrat is yourrr fav’rrrrite colorrrr ?”
Have a nice day.
People not wanting to listen to you is not a threat to your free speech #TheTriggering
Nothing you have to say is worth paying attention to #TheTriggering
You’re not telling bold truths, you’re just regurgitating prejudices you’ve never been thoughtful enough to examine #TheTriggering
People disagreeing with you is not a violation of your 1A rights #TheTriggering
Women not wanting to sleep with you is not a capital crime #TheTriggering
Your meme images could use some work #TheTriggering
🙂 Ha ha!! EJ(The Other One). The word “compassion” triggered them a great deal but I think “love” may have been the MOST triggering!! 🙂
In honor of the late Sir George Martin:
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need. #TheTriggering
#Lordof#TheTriggerings
Did I do this right?
I tweeted an image with the words “History proved us right. The world and humanity always moved forward, no matter how many wrenches were thrown at it”, and got this response:
“I agree. All the regressive leftists are doing a good job at self-selecting themselves from the gene pool. Darwinism wins.”
First off, “lulz”. Now, let’s unpack this.
1. Pregnancy and childbirth are oppressive so the “SJWs” are boycotting it.
2. Being a right wing arsehole is a biological trait that is passed down family lines.
Unless I’m grossly misunderstanding it. Nevertheless, “maximum” “bantz”.
On the subject of whether these people know what triggering actually is, I think some do and some don’t. Some know exactly what it is and purposely characterize it as speshul snowflakes looking for protection from fraught topics. The rest uncritically accept that characterization and run with it because it absolves them of having to see past their own noses.
I’ve also been hijacking #TheTriggering. I posted some quotes from some of the people here, among other things . I hope that’s okay with everyone. Right now i’m just posting random bizzare photographs.
Pure white, perfect for what is now essentially a white supremacist flag.
@Ohlmann
I’m going to guess French based on a couple of nuances but they could probably apply to most Latin based languages.
Could someone please explain the “Gopher Icicle” thing to me, because I’m not getting it.
@Gaebolga
Pretty sure it’s just intentionally surreal
@Gaebolga
Randomness.
I want this tattooed on my forehead, without the “tattoo on my forehead” part. It really applies to so many discussions/discourses it’s ridiculous.
If it weren’t for the fact that Internet bigots are universally humourless, I’d ‘shop a Resident Evil protag onto that Trumpstrosity. Seriously, it looks like a fucking Scagdead. O_o
Yeah, the flag of surrender.
I laughed so hard at this.
@ dlouwe and Makroth:
Thanks!
OT: On the minecraft server which I’ve just started playing on, there was a dude sounding off about how feminazis aren’t real feminists and don’t care about women’s rights. I’m new to the server so I was keeping quiet about it at first, but eventually had to tell him to fuck himself and disconnected.
Still pretty annoyed. I hope I’ve done the right thing; I really didn’t want to cause a scene but also didn’t want silence to be consent.
GAH! The third photo is going to haunt my dreams tonight, I just know it. >_<
@EJ: That would be annoying. I would have just told him to shut up and fucking play the game. : P
Are you planning to go back, or did you talk to the mods about it or what?
It was half past eleven at night on a worknight and it’s midnight now. I’m going to have to handle it when I’m next online.
Sigh.
@makroth
It’s certainly OK with me.
I suggest that we make every day #TheTriggering day, and post graphics of unicorns and rainbows, along with our (smartypants or not) statements.
@kylagb
Ha, ha! You go!