So the lovely people on Kotaku in Action on Reddit have discovered my post yesterday about the reactions of various Gamergaters on Twitter to Hulk Hogan’s recent legal win over Gawker.
Naturally, gators being gators, they manage to get themselves pretty worked up over a number of points I didn’t actually make. Gators remaining gators, there’s really no point in trying to correct them, as this will only give them more opportunities to misrepresent me.
Instead, let’s take a moment to look at some of the most highly upvoted comments in this edifying discussion that are, well, a bit more personal.
Here, with 98 net upvotes, is the most-upvoted comment in the thread, the comment that KiA collectively feels is the most valuable of them all:
This next comment, which garnered dozens of net upvotes, spurred a somewhat surreal discussion:
![[–]PR_WEL 56 points 16 hours ago and to no one's surprise is a fat neckbeard. lol permalinkembedsavereportreply [–]BaconCatBug 25 points 13 hours ago I am a fat neckbeard too but I am self aware enough to not try and pretend otherwise. :P permalinkembedsaveparentreportreply [–]Pakars[?] 3 points 11 hours ago I'm not fat, but I'm lazy and sometimes have a neckbeard. Do I count? permalinkembedsaveparentreportreply [–]BaconCatBug 9 points 11 hours ago It's not the fatness in your heart that counts, it's the fatness in your heart that counts!](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/neckbeard.png?resize=553%2C432&ssl=1)
I may have to put this one in the We Hunted the Mammoth press kit:
This one only got a couple of upvotes, but it’s defintely going in the press kit. Hell, I’m tempted to make it the official WHTM slogan:
This one is a bit puzzling, but I do like the suggestion that telling someone to drink bleach is basically the same as saying they need to have their mouth washed out with soap. (Note: while neither of these procedures is recommended, only one will result in painful death.)
Given that to Gators will happily upvote insults and nonsense, you may wonder how exactly one might go about getting downvoted.
Here’s how:
It may be a little hard to see, because the text is small and light grey, but this comment has negative 26 points.
Gators will forever be gators, I guess.
are we sure they weren’t just looking at the Mammoth logo and thinking that was a photo of you?
I mean, with great minds like those, I wouldn’t put it past them.
Jesus christ, if 4theNords ever bothers to brush his teeth (and considering he’s a member Kotaku in Action, I’m gonna go ahead and guess he’s not winning any awards for hygiene) I hope someone’s around to make sure he doesn’t use actual bleach.
Oh, Gators. So silly.
(Also I’ve been scrubbing kitchen walls since noon-ish to prep them for a fresh coat of paint, so I’m tired and my whole body hurts because I had to hop up and down the counters. Also, fun fact: I’m just tall enough to stand straight up on the counter and tilt my head around a bit so it doesn’t bonk on the ceiling. I also made some pretty tasty BBQ honey mustard slow cooker pulled pork, so I have that going for me.)
You put up with some awful abuse, David. Hope you’re doing okay.
Thanks for continuing in spite of it, your blog keeps their shit in perspective.
So, to recap: Being a fat neckbeard is only bad if someone other than a Reddit shitlord is doing it.
Got it!
Meanwhile, here’s the perfect takedown of you-know-who and his you-know-what.
From the Reddit comments:
Could someone elaborate on what a legbeard is? If they mean folks who don’t shave their legs then…okay, ya got me I guess.
Also want to second what opium4themasses said. Keep up the good work while managing to ignore the abuse that gets tossed your way. Worst things people have said about me is that I’m a “liar” (A Voice for Men) and that my snark is “lame” (random Alt-Righters on Twitter).
Who wants to bet that this guy has at least one comment elsewhere wailing that “Neckbeard” is a “Misandristic slur”?
I didn’t realize David was affiliated with Gawker.
Do these dingleberries really think that if Gawker does shut down – and that’s far from certain – that somehow every left leaning website will crumble? I think they do. They’ve been trolling over there all weekend, asking random commenters where they’re going to post now that Gawker is shutting down.
I’m already bored of this and I hope they tire themselves out soon.
Easiest $5 ever.
Re: the nose boop of doom – not enough people say this, but David, you always get the most perfect damned pictures coupled with the best captions 😀
Urban dictionary says that a legbeard is in fact the female equivalent of a neckbeard. A lazy and/or fat woman with hairy legs.
I only shave my legs every few weeks. But I only get stubble on the fronts of my ankles and lower shins. I’m not a very hairy person. So, am I legbeard, or not?
Predictably, some redditor made a meme about it with all sorts of straw feminist talking points
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/908/497/15b.jpg
and a reddit legbeard drawing contest
http://i.imgur.com/N7GFNNL.jpg
Because redditors love MS paint, I guess?
Re: “legbeard”, this invariably comes to mind:
@weirwoodtreehugger
Huh. I had no idea that was a thing. They’re really hoping it’ll catch on I take it.
Keep up the good work, David.
Miss Andry,
I didn’t check, but I suspect the only ones who put that Urban Dictionary entry in there were MRAs/gaters.
It probably won’t catch on because women are already disparaged for their looks in every possible way. No fancy new lingo is required.
What Kotaku thinks my brain looks like:
http://i.imgur.com/bjoOF7g.jpg
What my brain actually looks like:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QOkhppxCUfU/UfhuE9M9gEI/AAAAAAAACLQ/OZbW32wnfT0/s1600/kitten-brain.tif
Random moment of ‘awwwwww’:
http://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/kittenhand.jpg
Either 4theNords (who I hope is also a white supremacist because I want to fill my bingo card) hasn’t bothered to look at the tweets in your article, or he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
I’m often disappointed at how the straw feminists in those memes look little like me, because that only leaves me the option of being the conventional looking, stealth feminist, who seduces some poor red-blooded male, brings him home, lays him in my bed, and when he thinks he’s going to get some, I turn into a giant spider, regurgitate digestive fluid over him, and then consume the mush he’s become. That’s way too messy.
Lol, every time one of these dipshits opens their mouths to talk about feminists it becomes painfully clear they’ve never actually talked to a woman, let alone an actual feminist.
Also, hahahaha oh my god that bizarre hate of dyed hair. Hey, gators, my wife is drop dead gorgeous, has bright pink hair, and she makes more than I do dyeing other women’s hair rainbow colors. So y’all can suck it- the shit you quake in fear from FEEDS OUR SON AND OUR CAT!! MWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
“Legbeard” has been around for a bit. When some lovely person calls me or my pals legbeard online, I ask if they shave their legs. If they don’t shave their legs, then they have no moral standing over me and mine.
If they do shave their legs, well, no one has copped to that yet, darn it.
@wwth
I have to explain fairly regularly why it is that I wear prescription glasses but am still fine (and street legal) to drive without them. Even other people with eye problems need it explained fairly often. Maybe they think I’m faking?
(I doubt it. Most people just seem to assume that if you have a light prescription you’ll prefer contacts over lenses, but I can’t even put drops in my eyes.)
LindsayIrene:
I….Don’t get what there grudge against Roller Derby is?
@ Zatar
It’s women making their own fun instead of sitting around watching dudes play video games and awaiting sammich orders?
So shillingintensify asserts that WHTM will be “at the bottom without Gawker around.”
And when that doesn’t happen, this individual will be quick to retract this statement and apologize–right?
Otherwise, shillingintensify would just be an awful, awful hypocrite–and that can’t be, right?
Shillingintensify–I believe I got spam from someone with this username. Or was it largerichard? Rockfirm? Damptwizzle?
They’re not ‘gators, they’re crocoducks.