People you can be whatever you want on the internet

NeedMeSomeAshe··65 votes·2,540 views

So why do you decide to be ass holes?

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Narasimha26 votes

Because someone else got to be Batman first.

Mimy1 votes

I knew this simply....

Morgana : BECAUSE IM BATMAN!

Spacesuit Spiff6 votes

Everyone who plays this game has their own life and mind and dreams and all that shit. You never really think about how many people you'll only ever encounter for 40 minutes of your life, or the fact that regardless of who that person is, was, and will be, all you'll ever see of them is an insipid crybaby that's throwing a 40-minute temper tantrum over the smallest thing.

League of Legends in a nutshell.

Ayame Isaki6 votes

Because they are probably unhappy in their real life; they use the internet and video games as means of escape instead of as entertainment. They derive pleasure in making people feel like they do in life. I tend to pity trolls; how sad must their lives be that they need to come and ruin someone else's thirty minutes of fun in order to validate their existence.

Sometimes though, it really is just a guy or girl having a particularly bad day and they let it affect their in game/internet persona.

blujadajhdja1 votes

You can try and look at it as a reason, but it's in no way an excuse. I'm unhappy in real life and I feel like shit a lot, but it doesn't matter. That in NO WAY justifies being an asshole. I don't type too much in chat, but when I do, I never try to put someone down.

Jubbinaut6 votes

My personal thought? We don't see all those other people as people, because they're outside of our monkeysphere.

Messaiga1 votes

Damn, that was a really interesting read.

Jubbinaut2 votes

If you've got time, read some of his other stuff there. I know Cracked is a comedy site, but they do a pretty good job of talking about all kinds of interesting stuff - and citing the hell out of it - while still making it funny. And David Wong is one of their best for interesting.

3tyson4 votes

Wel i tried being a bilionair at first but it didnt really work out

gues being an ashole just came naturaly

Also if your trying to troll this is not the way my brother the correct way is going to team reqruitment and saying your a girl gamer looking for gamers than once they click it tell them girls dont play lol

IcyPepper4 votes

I guess people just need to vent a little and take it out on other people because there's a lesser chance of retribution?

Personally, I tend to get a little over-zealous when it comes to arguing with, er, rude people. Some satisfaction of out-maneuvering their logic and pointing out how they could improve their ethos with slight word variation?

I'm not perfect, but I think that's the reason. People aren't perfect, and sometimes they let the worst out.

Rebel Xayah3 votes

This actually made me smile a bit.

Rebel Xayah1 votes

Also, people act on the internet as if they were driving on the freeway, getting pissed at people and yelling. But instead of the words hitting the windshield, it actually reaches people.

Nucleophilic atk3 votes

I wouldn't have to be an asshole if people weren't stupid.

Jeddy0173 votes

I decided to be Jeddy017.

tiny bae2 votes

Because no ones going to knock them out over the internet. Why be afraid, it just your monitor.

junglerboy161 votes

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Alljoy2 votes

Because we can, obviously.

Robert Smith2 votes

All these flavors, and you choose salty.

hgjkdlsaf jeldvb2 votes

I think it's technically the same reason drivers are assholes until you make eye contact with them in many cases. You can't empathize with someone you don't know and can't see.

Takeuchi 172 votes

something about di--s and pu--ies and america f---- yea.

Gorgiolio2 votes

Idk... cuz I can tbh.

Le Dauphin2 votes

Pretty much because they're actually assholes and there's less chance of retribution or consequences online.

Interestingly, you actually have to put MORE effort to be an asshole online: you had to put in the effort to type something in and press send. My friend would tell you I mutter stuff like "this Kat is so useless" while playing, but you know what? I can just say it to myself (and him), and not type it in.

Suggestion for said people: If you're toxic, curse in real life, rage at the computer monitor, type something in and don't hit send. It's really not hard to just stay silent and not ruin other people's games / days

Suggestion for Riot: maybe a "/void" option in the chatbox so people can vent and hit enter?

Wheatloaf1 votes

Excuse my pessimism, but people are assholes by nature. A lot of us just happen to actually want people to like us, and thus only show it to people who don't/can't know who we are.

Kazaashi1 votes

Evolution trained us to be assholes and that is what we are. It's only modern society that places a pressure on an individual to not be an asshole and think about other people. Unfortunately, most people are too ignorantly self absorbed to see it.

Jubbinaut1 votes

Define modern society. I'm curious about where you believe that starts.

Kazaashi1 votes

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Define modern society. I'm curious about where you believe that starts.

I'd say when we, as a society, began using large scale social control to attempt to break us from the Tribal/Clan/City State culture that had dominated our society. The creation of Writing and Organized Religion I'd say.

Jubbinaut1 votes

That seems a workable definition. Which means that the society developed to allow us to deal with abnormally large numbers of other people is what pressures us to not be an asshole. Personally, I think that's a good thing, since if we all went around being assholes, we wouldn't be able to coexist in such large groups.

Kazaashi1 votes

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That seems a workable definition. Which means that the society developed to allow us to deal with abnormally large numbers of other people is what pressures us to not be an asshole. Personally, I think that's a good thing, since if we all went around being assholes, we wouldn't be able to coexist in such large groups.

Oh yea, I agree totally. I think if people we able to acknowledge the fact that, deep down, we are all self absorbed assholes, society could work on that and maybe do something about it. You know, admitting the problem is the first step to fixing it and all that.

Zarddramon1 votes

Maybe they're actually assholes in real life and they're just being themselves.

BakugoBestBoy1 votes

Because they're 12 and they're dumbasses and they can't help it. The only online etiquette they have they learned is from watching their 14 year old brother playing CoD and chugging mountain dew and screaming at people. What do you expect...

junglerboy161 votes

You obviously don't realize that the gaming generation is mostly in the 25+ range at this point, and those are the kids who grew up screaming at CoD.

BakugoBestBoy1 votes

LoL has an extremely wide range of ages in their player base, and while I might believe that there is a slightly higher percentage of people playing in the age range you mentioned, it is naive to insinuate there isn't also a large amount of 8-16 year olds playing as well.

junglerboy161 votes

Fair enough, but those aren't the ones who grew up watching their brothers playing CoD is my point, and they certainly aren't all just 12 year olds.

ALthaGreat1 votes

but...im not an ass hole....

JJ H0G1 votes

For the lulz.

You don't even have to flame or use naughty words to piss people off. it's just so funny.

Zmuecat1 votes

What did you want me to be, a transfem furry anti-feminist, born again crocodile?

Cause I can be that if you want.

test account1 votes

Because I'm such a nice guy IRL. Why would I want to be me online?

4ManVotedAgainst1 votes

Most people in this entire universe were already ass-holes to begin with anyway. The on-line behaviour is only a reflection of who people really are. The behaviours have a lot to do with "infections/contamination" via "energetic-level" similarly to how being drugged or drunk causes notice-able behaviours.

Awoof1 votes

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So why do you decide to be ass holes?

Cause they like anal? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

PalPlays1 votes

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So why do you decide to be ass holes?

I tried being Acclamator as Amumu once. It sort of worked because I was carrying.

pcfmYiJC8R1 votes

Because being an asshole in real life has repercussions where as on League there really isn't any accept getting reported and then they just make a second & third & fourth account and switch back and forth until their other account is un suspended.

Jubbinaut1 votes

And thus the rationale behind Chat and Ranked Restrictions.

pcfmYiJC8R1 votes

Chat restrictions do nothing, you can still type ever couple minutes, if anything it gives people time to think about what kinda asshole things they wanna say if anything. As for ranked restrictions most people have more then one account to troll on.

On your main you say nothing On your Smurf you troll, feed, be toxic w/e.

there should be an ip limit or something to accounts or have them linked so when one is suspended so is the other.

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