#and it’s everyday there some sort of discourse about something stupid as hell

[xo2dee]

ladstwt is the absolute most miserable, insufferable and braindead place ive ever seen

[clownhooves]

LONG RAMBLING KIND OF VENT POST (I GUESS????)

I've been seeing a weird discourse about the word """puriteen""" and idk I mostly don't care because they're teenagers and will probably grow out of that shit and look back on it and go "eugh i was a little shit back then" like most people do.

But

What I'm actually concerned about is the weird right wing shit teens are buying into (without knowing) and spreading that shit amongst each other like some sort of plague of hatred and ostracization, trying to fucking ruin each other's lives. The whole """puriteen""" mindset (and honestly call out culture and cringe culture) is rooted in a lot of satanic panic shit. Trying to sniff out the "bad" people so no one thinks you're a bad person.

They think, "maybe if you make call out posts against enough people and put enough things in your dni list you can be a good person and no one will make a call out posts against you, right?" "Maybe you won't lose all of your friends, because those eggshells you've been walking on for what feels like forever can definitely handle the weight of all of your fears and anxieties and all of the weird fucked up feelings that comes with puberty, right?"

Look I've been bullied by my peers (is that the right word?) pretty much my entire life up until my second or third year of highschool, by then barely anyone wanted to even have anything to do with me. I know what it's like to have nasty fucking rumors that you barely even know, that last for fucking years, spread about you because you're annoying and you act kinda weird and awkward, and you let it slip that your queer, constantly walking on eggshells and being called a million different slurs most of witch don't even apply to you.

shit was fucking terrible then and it still bothers me, and I'm fucking *21* now.

And now, this shit has gotten way fucking worse hasn't it? I fucking dread the shit queer kids must be going through right now. Especially since schools have been getting worse and worse and worse, it's like they're trying to fucking work teenagers to death or something. imagine dealing with the stuff that comes with a shitty school system while also dealing with puberty and also dealing with figuring out your identity and sexuality while everyone around you is judging every single fucking thing you do offline and online, every stupid opinion you have, every piece of media you like, every person you follow, all under a microscope being looked at by a giant faceless hoard of people, who are all simultaneously, strangers, friends, and people you love. ALL WHILE YOU ARE A TEENAGER, A LITERAL GIANT WALKING TODDLER WHOS PRIMARILY DRIVEN BY HORMONES AND BAD IDEAS.

Like COME ON how is that not absolutely fucked up?????

Is there even anything that can be done about this shit? Fucking dog piling on teenagers going through a horrifying moral and existential crisis everyday definitely doesn't fucking help.

The anti bullying campaigns in the 2010s didn't seem to fucking work at all, probably because those people had absolutely no idea what teenagers were like.

So like, what the fuck is anyone supposed to do? Trying to sanitize the Internet isn't a solution because that fucking ruins things for everyone.

It seems like teenagers are trying to coexist with adults on platforms made for neither of them. Teenagers don't have anywhere to express themselves or explore their own emotions or identities. I sure as hell fucking didn't and that resulted in some EXTREMELY BAD THINGS (I'm gonna keep what exactly happened vague for now because it's really personal)

I don't know how to really end this rambling mess of a post, it's just been some shit I've been really worried about, I just hope my brother doesn't get sucked into this shit. I hope this all makes sense because I'm really bad at typing and this post is REAALLY LONG and stream of consciousness like.

I hope this isn't too indescribable.