people troll people for everything, sports, life, school, looks, etc. Your not going to escape it, until you learn to not let things affect you. Are there moments where i break and do care about peoples opinions, sure. But for the most part as you get older the more you care about making yourself happy then you care about impressing or being well liked by others/strangers for the things you do.
Everyone is an a**hole on the internet.... and once you come to terms with that the easier it is to just laugh and move on. Most teenager and young 20 somethings might not see it that way or believe it, but you do eventually hit an age where opinions from randoms dont affect you as much as they once did.
ill agree twitter is awful, but then again i dont take anything i see on twitter seriously.
Sure, of course. Older adults understand that social media should not be given much credence in how you view yourself. But this conversation was initially about Bobby from Reckless, so I’ve been referring more to the POV of these younger “cheer-lebrities.” Lots of them are in their teens or early twenties and probably not as dismissive of social media as adults are, like you said.
This age group is 1) already prone to self-centeredness (which is not a dig, it’s just part of growing up) and 2) given to feeling things very intensely (I know we all remember). Compound this with the fact that the internet has literally shaped their social interactions for their whole lives, and I can understand how social media negativity affects them. Maybe not all the time, but at least some of the time. How could it not? It’s a large chunk of their world and always has been. So when these kids — some of whom have followers from all over the world — experience negativity on Twitter, how could they not feel that the whole
world is judging them? When you combine their mental/emotional state, life experiences, and the fact that Twitter is inundated with people who are going to troll them no matter what they do, I’d think it’s borderline impossible for them not to worry what Twitter thinks.
That’s where my “sociopathic” comment fits in. I think it would literally take an emotional disconnect for a
kid to actually, genuinely not be affected by people calling them fat/stupid/untalented on a daily basis. I don’t know how some of these cheer-lebrities do it. On a good day, they’ve already got a built-in number of people hating them for being good at what they do because some people are just awful. And then on those days when they screw up by saying/doing something stupid, that number skyrockets. I literally don’t know how they do it. I was mortified when a rumour went around about me at my 800-person high school (even though of those 800 people, only like 50 knew/cared who I was). I can’t imagine how I’d feel if that number reached upwards of 10,000, and a good portion were publicly telling me to kill myself in front of my family and friends.