@B2C  
GIFT don’t meant that everyone will act in a hateful manner when anonymous. Different people are affected by GIFT in different manners. It dose means though that people are, in a way, more “honest” on the net. they will say and do things that they don’t believe that they can get away with in real life.
 
This means that when people say hateful things on the net, they mean it and only hold their tong in real life because they are afraid of social cost that it will cause them.
 
Anyway internet hate is just as damaging as real life hate, and people who are exposed to it are hurt in the very same way that people are hurt when exposed to the same things in real life. So dismissing the intentions of the people who hate on the internet doesn’t dismiss the severity of it.

@B2C  
Only the majority of humans.

@kleptomage  
Then every human ever is a dick. What a useless concept.

@B2C  
No, it means people know to conceal their dickery offline because offline there are tangible consequences.

@kleptomage  
GIFT implies that there is a separation.

@B2C  
GIFT is an established fact. What’s your point?

@kleptomage  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect

Articles about bronies that are timely, researched, and don’t use us for cheap laughs are too uncommon. This article is good.

@B2C  
Contrary to popular belief, there is no separation between one’s actions online and one’s actions in what you would call “real life.” The denizens of the internet are real people expressing their real thoughts. If someone is an asshole online they are an asshole offline too. Hating someone for their taste in TV shows makes one an asshole.

@Heroine Addict  
I respectfully disagree.

@B2C  
Hate is hate, no matter where it comes from. When people treat you like you’re not even human, that’s just wrong even if it’s “just on the internet”.

@Itsthinking  
Not really. If your a geek, or anything else that the majority of society deems strange or out of the ordinary, as long as you are chill about it and dont make a huge fucking deal of it people tend to be fine with it. There eill still be people who hate for no apparent reason, but I find the fact that they will go nowhere in life to be quite comforting.

Internet hate isn’t really hate. You guys are just sensitive.

And yeah, actually being a geek is still grounds for that. But again, I mentioned that at the same time that they do that, they always joke about the geek being more successful than anyone else. It’s weird.

@ClownDicks  
If the Internet were as big at the turn of the millennium as it is today, I can guarantee you that it would have been similar to PPG. I’ve learned to essentially just think “Just leave me alone and let me watch a damn TV show, I’m not hurting you.”

@Itsthinking  
@Tyrranux  
@ArrJaySketch  
No, it’s worse than the hate geeks get. It’s like, was there ever this much bile directed at men who watched Powerpuff Girls? It’s this sort of “Ewww, what sort of sick fucking piece of shit watches a show for little girls?! Ewwwww!” reaction.
 
And re:Big Bang Theory, it’s acceptable to like things geeks like. Actually being a geek (read: having more than superficial knowledge about something geeky) is still grounds for mockery and asskicking.

@ArrJaySketch  
Exactly what I’m talking about. If you want to see how geeks are actually portrayed, look at Big Bang Theory. Society does this weird thing with geeks where they make fun of them for their geeky tendencies but at the same time realize that they’re going to invent everything in the future. It’s like jealousy mixed with dread or something.

Good on them! Much applause to TV Guide.
 
@ClownDicks  
It’s the same kind of hate furries get.
 
Hell, at work coworkers (all geeks, btw) were joking about how they’d get beat up for wearing a Green Lantern T-shirt. I mean, that’s pretty ordinary to me. These were all comic book fans talking, too. *shrug*
 
Geeks get unreasonably large amounts of hate. It’s particularly weird when one group of geeks decide to hate other geeks, when no one outside those groups of geeks honestly cares.

@ClownDicks  
That’s nothing, you should see the visceral hatred that is given to people who not only own a Wii U but say it’s a good system (which it is)…..whoa God the seething biased hatred I have seen….

@ClownDicks  
People always look for a group to hate on to make themselves appear more acceptable in society’s eyes. What they forget is that society really doesn’t differentiate between subcultures and just mixes everyone together as “nerds” if they do even slightly nerdy activities.
 
So essentially, they’re trying to save face and make themselves appear “normal” in a society that that will never accept them as anything other than a nerd anyway. So they waste their breath.

What I’ve never understood is how visceral the hate for us gets, how readily it turns into disgust.

@Heroine Addict  
“It’s so scary the weird way that you watch.”- line from MC Chris’ song “Discord” that fits perfectly

Thank god

’Tis a good day to all who like ponies.

Finally someone that actually thinks we’re not bad people!